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Morality and Integrity

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Morality is a series of self-imposed volitional limits (I-beliefs) that permit or prohibit certain potential behaviours by establishing what the mind can and cannot do. Each I-belief is a command to our mind. The ability to change our mind establishes that we are not our mind. If we were, we would be trapped within a dogmatic existence with no ability to change. In computer software development, when commands are written, unless there is a bug, they are absolute and work as designed. For example, in Python if we said: ‘if hungry eat two eggs and 1 slice of bacon, else, eat nothing’, then hunger would be the biological signal (variable) for eating food. What most people actually do with their own mind is different. Many people, come to the conclusion, that if they like the taste of food, re-experiencing the taste is the objective, so the ‘craving’ for the taste becomes the variable, not hunger or strictly observed meal times.
Why is it that Python works as designed when a command is written, but the human mind that created it, does not? The body is the clue. Python does not have a body. Python, not having a body, cannot use a body’s feelings as ‘variables’ that determine behaviour. Python does not get hungry. Python does not have variables that create behaviours that are in conflict, with its own rules. When the mind has conflict, the mind and body are in conflict. The human body provides feedback in the form of feelings, that are used to judge the quality of our life. The body cannot and should not be ignored. We are not our body and we are not our mind, but whilst alive we are both beneficiary and victim of how we manage both. How do we know we are not our body? We know because we have to fight our body’s impulses, when it causes addiction, fear, anger, procrastination and anxiety. For an addict, those impulses are stronger than their own will.
The body gets hungry, thirsty, tired and lustful. These are not always a conscious choice, but those cravings have the power to disturb our peace of mind and focus. Collectively, the ten commandments are existential software (code) for the mind. A computer language allows the coder to create a synthetic mind. Software is a synthetic mind. The reason it works is because it is instinctively created by a real mind but does not include the psychological dysfunction (blind spots) of its creator. All software is a copy of the creator’s understanding. This understanding is their own mind’s understanding. Software created in Python works by rules and logic. If, elif and else, enables functions to create conditional rules for options (variables) that are determined by conditions.
For example: ‘If’ it is raining outside, wear a coat, ‘else’ don’t, is a line of code that determines whether or not to wear a coat. The software is the evidence that establishes how the mind works. But unlike computer software, humans have a body that has its own operating (software) system. This is the difference. In this world we have addiction, ignorance, violence, sexual violence, theft and selfishness. Selfishness is encouraged by competition and men are judged by their personal performance and material success and women by their physical beauty. What is morality? Morality is the compassionate justification for self-imposed volitional limits placed upon behavioural expression. Morality is the ‘rules’ to be observed that ensure that we don’t do what is immoral. The ten commandments were not simply laws, they were existential code, which when believed established personal limits upon the expression of our mind. Free will ensures that, like all code, it can be self-edited (corrupted).
Von Neumann said computers were inspired by the nervous system and human cognition. In “The Computer and the Brain” (1958): “The procedures that we call algorithms are precisely the rules that a human would follow in carrying out a computation.” Alan Turing linked computation to human mental procedure. In “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” (1950) he wrote that a machine’s operations are a formalisation of what a human “computer” (a person doing calculations) already does step-by-step. His model (the Turing Machine) is an abstraction of a person following rules with pencil and paper.
Norbert Wiener, the founder of cybernetics framed machines as externalised human control and thought. Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, MIT Press, 1948, p. 19. “The machine is the exact analogue of the nervous system.” John McCarthy, Dartmouth Conference Proposal, 1955 “Every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it.”
The ten commandments are existential software created to programme the mind, but they can only be empowered, if we place our faith in them. Like any line of code, they only work as designed, if we do not have any conflicting beliefs (code), to compromise them. This is why the first commandment. Free will means that we are free to place our faith in them, or we are free to refuse to. Conflicting beliefs (code) are the reason why people who believe in the ten commandments break them. A conflicting belief is how opposing armies are formed within the same mind. One army restricts, and the other works to tempt the believer. For example, thou shalt not commit adultery is the root belief, from which many other contextually related beliefs (commands) should develop. This reinforces the resolve, making it stronger. However, the lust and desire exploited by pornography are so powerful, that in order to overcome the power of the belief, I should not commit adultery, they can result in the creation of conflicting beliefs, or are edited along the lines of: ‘but, if nobody finds out, it won’t hurt anyone’.
All beliefs are lines of code. An example of a conflicting or ambiguous belief is believing I must not kill, ‘unless’ I have to. Unless is a variable, that negates the power of that commandment to corrupt the mind. The first belief is literally disempowered by the variable, meaning that murder is a conditional response. This is a loss of the mind’s moral integrity. The desire for sex can be very strong and this can lead to the creation of beliefs, like ‘I don’t care’. This belief programmes a perceptually induced neurochemical response (emotions) that denies compassion. These temptations lead to variables that create a thief, murderer or rapist. The mind and therefore the body, can be used to create or to destroy. The criminal lines of code must be created in the mind, in order to corrupt it, before the body can perform those acts. The integrity of a Christian mind is sustained by rejecting any beliefs that would compromise it.
Unless born with a disability or injured, we each and all have sovereignty over our own mind. The mind is the operating system where we can create ‘anything’. The imagination is not restricted by the laws of physics. The brain is the hardware that is initially, exclusively operated by the autonomic system and the mind’s source code/firmware. The power of the mind to interfere with the autonomic system that operates the body is demonstrated by a phobia and psychosomatic bodily afflictions. What is termed a phobia is evidence of the power of every single mind. A phobia is a command that is unusual in the activities or behaviours it prohibits. A Christian’s mind is the only technology they are required to master in their lifetime.
The archives of the world reveal the historical development of our collective understanding. However, this understanding is not our personal understanding. If there is crime, violence, poverty, sexual violence, war, inequality and suffering in the world, then the world and those who control it are not fit to be our educators. God should be our only educator. Romans 12:2 (KJV) “And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.” You have complete sovereignty over your own mind. You are not a victim!
The reason people cannot stop drinking is because they ‘believe’ they cannot stop drinking. The belief is a line of code. The power of each belief is the ‘faith’ it obtains. ‘FAITH IS THE POWER OF GOD GIVEN TO MAN’. If you want to know how the mind works learn to write code and develop software. The bugs that prevent success in achieving the software’s functional objectives, are exactly the same in the mind. The software developer observes how a bug affects the outcome and learns to detect and eradicate those bugs.

All software is a series of commands that take into account a number of contemplated variables. For example, in order to ensure that I do not drink alcohol and drive, using Python I may write code as follows:
if drink == “alcohol”:
action = “taxi”
else:
action = “drive”
This is not only how Python works but how the human mind works. We are not our mind and we are not our body. Why then, if we know we should not drink and drive, do we? Because in order to feel certain ‘feelings’, that we crave, we succumb to that temptation, by creating conflicting code that gives us a choice to sustain integrity or to temporarily abandon it. In life, we do everything for the ‘feeling’. A friend may say to us, ‘I drink and drive all the time and I have never been caught’. This may lead to the conclusion (belief) that I’m not going to be caught, which could also be supported by the creation of the belief, ‘I drive as good drunk as I do sober’. The motive for this loss of integrity is almost exclusively the feelings we experience whilst drinking alcohol. Alcohol and drugs can feel so good that we may want to prolong the experience through continued consumption. Unfortunately, alcohol can impair judgement and physical performance. The moral compromise is created using code that is assembled along the following lines.
The believer, compromises his own mind by knowingly introducing a variable about risk or consequences:
if drink == “alcohol” and chance_of_being_caught > 0.5:
action = “taxi”
else:
action = “drive”
The desire for sex is not only an effect of consuming alcohol. Alcohol also has a profound effect on the mind’s ability to sustain its discernment and judgement which has been a factor in many violent crimes, including rape. Alcohol is used as a tool to temporarily shut down the moral constraints that prevent enjoyment, laughter and in many cases, arousal. The two biggest forces that cause us to edit our mind’s personal code (beliefs) are ‘fear’ and ‘desire’. Galatians 5:19-21 (KJV) “Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.”
When someone gets between us and our ‘desires’ we can become jealous, violent, hateful, heretical, dishonest, selfish and this can lead to the development of numerous commands (beliefs), which our mind can and will act upon. Listen to a football hooligan talk about the fans of an opposing football team and it is like listening to someone talking about their enemy. This can and does lead to violence. Listen to a constituent who votes for one political party talk about someone who votes for the opposing party.
Propaganda is produced in order to obtain the faith of the masses. Propaganda is a number of proposed beliefs that ‘demonise’ a target group. This leads to beliefs that not only justify disrespect, hatred and violence, but if believed, will literally edit the mind’s perception of the target group, leading to a change in our behaviour towards them. The power of beliefs to control the mind of a believer is ‘absolute’. That power is faith. The body’s fear of pain, can create what some refer to as a coward. This label is not helpful. Fear is a ‘perceptually induced neurochemical response’ that is felt in the body. It is a function (belief) that is created to inhibit.
Proverbs 9:10 (KJV) “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.” We have the power (faith) to do anything, unless we believe we cannot. This is because the belief that we cannot is also empowered by faith. Each and every one of our beliefs has faith. The following saying is attributed to Henry Ford: “A man who believes he can and man who believes he cannot, are both right”. This is sometimes stated as: “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t—you’re right.” This literally describes how faith works.
The commandments were given to create a world that we can all share in peace and harmony. These commands are lines of existential code. They can only be empowered by ‘faith’. Every ‘I-belief’ is a rule-enforcing instruction. These instructions are absolute unless and until we create an ‘if’, ‘elif’ and/or ‘then’ rule. So as children our friends may say why don’t you throw stones and break some windows in a derelict or abandoned house. My response may be: ‘because its wrong, and if I do, I will be punished’. Then our friends may say, ‘only if you get caught’.
This indicates that the child has been educated (programmed) to believe that they will be punished and fear of punishment is much stronger than the moral argument that it is wrong to damage someone else’s property. If the child can be persuaded to believe they won’t get caught and therefore will not be punished, they may create new line of code (belief), along the lines of: “If I don’t tell anyone, no one will know and I won’t get punished”. Then they unconsciously construct a belief that supports the breaking of windows, using ‘if’ or ‘elif’ or ‘else’ statements. The desire (feelings) to fit in and be liked may be stronger than the awareness of their personal moral responsibility and obligation. The obligation is to ‘self’.
This is how the mind works! The introduction of this kind of compromise creates moral conflict. The moral conflict is created to permit immoral behaviour. This is assisted by creating contemplated contexts that justify where and when some behaviours are acceptable and when and where they are not. This is how we corrupt our own mind. Corruption of the mind is like corruption of the code. If we do not run the code several times under different conditions a bug may be present that is not apparent and is not detected immediately. What works perfectly at six years of age may create a profound psychological problem later in life. The mind is eternal and once the code is created it operates ‘perfectly’ until it is edited. Many people live with limitation for their entire life, not realising that every mind is not only equal, but it’s potential is unlimited. If when you enter 2 + 2, the result equals 9, and you know that the result is incorrect, this means that the method of calculation is incorrect. The only thing a mind can lack is understanding.
Integrity is required to ensure that our personal code (beliefs) is not compromised. The belief that I must love my wife and children and be faithful, must not be compromised by conflicting beliefs. The reason an individual may create conflicting code (beliefs) may be due to a loss of sexual attraction, sexual attraction to someone outside of the marriage or a lack of sexual fulfilment within it. In life, we do everything for the feeling! This may lead to the belief (code) that ‘I DESERVE MORE’. This belief opens the door to thoughts about what ‘MORE’ looks like. If it looks like someone else, a believer may use their mind to create fantasies about someone else.
This in itself is not the act of infidelity or adultery, but it is likely to lead to an addiction to those thoughts, which lead to ideas. Matthew 5:27–28 (KJV) “Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.” As long as the individual does not change the belief that I must be faithful, or create a conflicting belief that disempowers it, they will be faithful. However, the belief that I deserve more, can bring thoughts that could result in the creation of an awareness of what something more looks like. This is where any qualifying people who fit the role of our fantasy, become the focus of our attention. This is when there is a risk to our mind’s integrity. If we strike up a conversation and there is rapport, the fantasy now has a subject which may lead to the creation of new, conflicting beliefs that remove the mind’s moral integrity. This removes the behavioural (volitional) limits that are necessary for a life of integrity.
This is where statements like: ‘I know I should not, but’ begin to contaminate how we contemplate potential opportunities for sin. The contemplation of situations and opportunities, where the person will not get caught, begin to enter the mind. This leads to fantasies about how to cheat without getting caught. This can become a compelling fantasy and bring a person closer to acquiring a conflicting belief that compromises and diminishes the power of the belief: ‘I must be faithful’. Contemplating doing something that goes against our own values, as long as the other person does not find out, is a temptation.
We succumb to temptation through self-deception. For example, the belief: “if I could sleep with someone else without my spouse ever finding out, it would do not harm.” This is a contextually specific example of how we compromise the integrity of our own mind. We are born with sovereignty over our own mind. The ability to self-programme the mind is something that is God-given. This ability is exploited by others who seek to vicariously programme our mind for their benefit of the benefit of the systemic paradigm they personally exploit. Religion, Education, Politics, Marketing, Sales, Potential Spouses and those seeking one night stands all compete for our faith in their words, through the manipulation of our perception.
Faith is the power of God given to man. Beliefs about others determine our perception of them. Every single emotional response, ‘without exception’, is a perceptually induced neurochemical response. What we believe about our self in existential terms, we will become. To be born again means to take back sovereignty over our own mind and withdraw our faith in all the beliefs that compromise our integrity. This is the end of personal doubt. When we know, we have no need of beliefs, because we know. An addict’s integrity is compromised by the fact that they want to stop the lows but they don’t want to stop experiencing the highs.
Mark 3:25 KJV “And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.” The whole mind is collective, not personal. The whole mind is the kingdom of heaven, where all prayers are answered. ‘I can’, creates the karma of some and ‘I can’t’ creates the karma for others. Our life, is the answer to our prayers. Beliefs are prayers and all prayers are answered. The belief ‘I can’ and the belief ‘I cannot’ are both realised. Matthew 7:7-8 (KJV) “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.”
Integrity is a mind that does not have conflicting beliefs. A software that has conflicting lines of code will create bugs. The cause of these bugs will be one or more lines of conflicting code working to achieve conflicting objectives. This is experienced by the feeling of ‘doubt’ when faced with the conflicting choice of desire or obligation. Once detected by a software engineer, the bug is fixed and the functional objective is achieved. In life, theft, dishonesty, rape and murder are the effect of bugs in the mind. We can say that the person lacks morality or that they are evil. That is an easy and extremely lazy way of looking at how the mind operates. If we compare a criminal with a person who does not commit crime, they may look the same and they may dress the same. What is different is the code (beliefs) that operates their individual minds. The mind is a subtle form of the body. The body is a denser form of the mind.

Emotions, the Super-fuel ‘Essential’ for Learning

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Emotions, the Super-fuel ‘Essential’ for Learning
The mind must be motivated to go to and stay in the correct subject and context if it is to develop the focus to concentrate. This focussed stated is ‘essential’ to learning efficiently. Without the development of the focussed state, the mind will be tempted by neurochemical addiction to pursue visual or auditory stimulus. This is because every single emotional response is a perceptually induced neurochemical (emotional) response. The visual stimulus that generates those short temporary emotional spikes may be news, gossip, sports, pornography or violent content. Most people are unconscious of this phenomenon, even when it erodes their natural ability to focus.
Without focus, it’s close to impossible to learn skills. There must be sufficient motivation to learn if the mind of the learning is sufficiently focussed to learn. Focus is not simply a component, it is an essential component. If an individual is not highly motivated, then they are unlikely to have sufficient focus or the desire to obtain it. Focussing on subject matter must become a life or death matter. Working on many parts of the world is a life or death matter. If someone doesn’t work, they don’t eat. When starvation, homelessness and vulnerability of dependent family members is motivating a person to learn, they will learn.
Emotions are fuel. The can attract us, such is the case with attraction, sexual desire, and love. Cravings of the body’s addiction are more powerful than fear or love. An addict will do whatever they have to do to get their fix. They may lie, cheat, steal, sell drugs or sell their body. This shows how powerful the cravings for specific feelings are. This is seen as a negative thing in someone’s life an in the context of addiction it is. But it is also a highly motivating power that can drive a man to work for hours shoplifting to get enough money to feed his habit.
If people could generate the same level of motivation as a drug addict without being addicted, they would be highly focussed. The focus on getting enough money for a fix is absolute. Understanding the technology of the mind, amygdala and brain is how you understand the relationship between perception and emotions. The emotions are the fuel that drives all behaviour. An absence of any emotional response may be described as ‘depression’. Depression is a word that describes the observed behaviour, not its cause.
What is needed to develop focus is sufficient motive. This can be move towards emotions/physical feelings motive (desire/need/love) or it can be a move away from unwanted emotions /physical feelings (fear/shame/loneliness/homelessness/hunger). A workaholic cannot stop. An unemployed person may not be able to start. If we do not understand the technologies of our own mind and body we will never be truly in control of our own destiny. The development of personal sovereignty requires each individual to realise their own power.
The technology of the mind is already known and exploited through the initiatives such as marketing, news, propaganda. This is assisted by the development of new terms in the form of concepts, such as racism, welfare system, feminism, diversity, where victimhood is encouraged and reliance upon third party organisations and legislation to justify the abandonment of personal responsibility for one’s own mind and emotional programming.
Every single emotional response without exception is a ‘perceptually induced neurochemical response’. Perception is how we see ‘everything’ including ‘self’. If we perceive anything and everything including self and others negatively, we write a prescription for our brain, which will immediately dispense a matching neurochemical (feeling) that we feel. We then blame whatever we perceived in those terms to be guilty for our feelings, when in fact, it was exclusively by our own perception.
This is why it was said in Matthew 7:1–5 (KJV) “Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.”

Morality and Integrity

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Morality is a series of self-imposed volitional limits (I-beliefs) that permit or prohibit certain potential behaviours by establishing what the mind can and cannot do. Each I-belief is a command to our mind. The ability to change our mind establishes that we are not our mind. If we were, we would be trapped within a dogmatic existence with no ability to change. In computer software development, when commands are written, unless there is a bug, they are absolute and work as designed. For example, in Python if we said: ‘if hungry eat two eggs and 1 slice of bacon, else, eat nothing’, then hunger would be the biological signal (variable) for eating food. What most people actually do with their own mind is different. Many people, come to the conclusion, that if they like the taste of food, re-experiencing the taste is the objective, so the ‘craving’ for the taste becomes the variable, not hunger or strictly observed meal times.
Why is it that Python works as designed when a command is written, but the human mind that created it, does not? The body is the clue. Python does not have a body. Python, not having a body, cannot use a body’s feelings as ‘variables’ that determine behaviour. Python does not get hungry. Python does not have variables that create behaviours that are in conflict, with its own rules. When the mind has conflict, the mind and body are in conflict. The human body provides feedback in the form of feelings, that are used to judge the quality of our life. The body cannot and should not be ignored. We are not our body and we are not our mind, but whilst alive we are both beneficiary and victim of how we manage both. How do we know we are not our body? We know because we have to fight our body’s impulses, when it causes addiction, fear, anger, procrastination and anxiety. For an addict, those impulses are stronger than their own will.
The body gets hungry, thirsty, tired and lustful. These are not always a conscious choice, but those cravings have the power to disturb our peace of mind and focus. Collectively, the ten commandments are existential software (code) for the mind. A computer language allows the coder to create a synthetic mind. Software is a synthetic mind. The reason it works is because it is instinctively created by a real mind but does not include the psychological dysfunction (blind spots) of its creator. All software is a copy of the creator’s understanding. This understanding is their own mind’s understanding. Software created in Python works by rules and logic. If, elif and else, enables functions to create conditional rules for options (variables) that are determined by conditions.
For example: ‘If’ it is raining outside, wear a coat, ‘else’ don’t, is a line of code that determines whether or not to wear a coat. The software is the evidence that establishes how the mind works. But unlike computer software, humans have a body that has its own operating (software) system. This is the difference. In this world we have addiction, ignorance, violence, sexual violence, theft and selfishness. Selfishness is encouraged by competition and men are judged by their personal performance and material success and women by their physical beauty. What is morality? Morality is the compassionate justification for self-imposed volitional limits placed upon behavioural expression. Morality is the ‘rules’ to be observed that ensure that we don’t do what is immoral. The ten commandments were not simply laws, they were existential code, which when believed established personal limits upon the expression of our mind. Free will ensures that, like all code, it can be self-edited (corrupted).
Von Neumann said computers were inspired by the nervous system and human cognition. In “The Computer and the Brain” (1958): “The procedures that we call algorithms are precisely the rules that a human would follow in carrying out a computation.” Alan Turing linked computation to human mental procedure. In “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” (1950) he wrote that a machine’s operations are a formalisation of what a human “computer” (a person doing calculations) already does step-by-step. His model (the Turing Machine) is an abstraction of a person following rules with pencil and paper.
Norbert Wiener, the founder of cybernetics framed machines as externalised human control and thought. Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, MIT Press, 1948, p. 19. “The machine is the exact analogue of the nervous system.” John McCarthy, Dartmouth Conference Proposal, 1955 “Every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it.”
The ten commandments are existential software created to programme the mind, but they can only be empowered, if we place our faith in them. Like any line of code, they only work as designed, if we do not have any conflicting beliefs (code), to compromise them. This is why the first commandment. Free will means that we are free to place our faith in them, or we are free to refuse to. Conflicting beliefs (code) are the reason why people who believe in the ten commandments break them. A conflicting belief is how opposing armies are formed within the same mind. One army restricts, and the other works to tempt the believer. For example, thou shalt not commit adultery is the root belief, from which many other contextually related beliefs (commands) should develop. This reinforces the resolve, making it stronger. However, the lust and desire exploited by pornography are so powerful, that in order to overcome the power of the belief, I should not commit adultery, they can result in the creation of conflicting beliefs, or are edited along the lines of: ‘but, if nobody finds out, it won’t hurt anyone’.
All beliefs are lines of code. An example of a conflicting or ambiguous belief is believing I must not kill, ‘unless’ I have to. Unless is a variable, that negates the power of that commandment to corrupt the mind. The first belief is literally disempowered by the variable, meaning that murder is a conditional response. This is a loss of the mind’s moral integrity. The desire for sex can be very strong and this can lead to the creation of beliefs, like ‘I don’t care’. This belief programmes a perceptually induced neurochemical response (emotions) that denies compassion. These temptations lead to variables that create a thief, murderer or rapist. The mind and therefore the body, can be used to create or to destroy. The criminal lines of code must be created in the mind, in order to corrupt it, before the body can perform those acts. The integrity of a Christian mind is sustained by rejecting any beliefs that would compromise it.
Unless born with a disability or injured, we each and all have sovereignty over our own mind. The mind is the operating system where we can create ‘anything’. The imagination is not restricted by the laws of physics. The brain is the hardware that is initially, exclusively operated by the autonomic system and the mind’s source code/firmware. The power of the mind to interfere with the autonomic system that operates the body is demonstrated by a phobia and psychosomatic bodily afflictions. What is termed a phobia is evidence of the power of every single mind. A phobia is a command that is unusual in the activities or behaviours it prohibits. A Christian’s mind is the only technology they are required to master in their lifetime.
The archives of the world reveal the historical development of our collective understanding. However, this understanding is not our personal understanding. If there is crime, violence, poverty, sexual violence, war, inequality and suffering in the world, then the world and those who control it are not fit to be our educators. God should be our only educator. Romans 12:2 (KJV) “And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.” You have complete sovereignty over your own mind. You are not a victim!
The reason people cannot stop drinking is because they ‘believe’ they cannot stop drinking. The belief is a line of code. The power of each belief is the ‘faith’ it obtains. ‘FAITH IS THE POWER OF GOD GIVEN TO MAN’. If you want to know how the mind works learn to write code and develop software. The bugs that prevent success in achieving the software’s functional objectives, are exactly the same in the mind. The software developer observes how a bug affects the outcome and learn to detect and eradicate those bugs.

All software is a series of commands that take into account a number of contemplated variables. For example, in order to ensure that I do not drink alcohol and drive, using Python I may write code as follows:
if drink == “alcohol”:
action = “taxi”
else:
action = “drive”
This is not only how Python works but how the human mind works. We are not our mind and we are not our body. Why then, if we know we should not drink and drive, do we? Because in order to feel certain ‘feelings’, that we crave, we succumb to that temptation, by creating conflicting code that gives us a choice to sustain integrity or to temporarily abandon it. In life, we do everything for the ‘feeling’. A friend may say to us, ‘I drink and drive all the time and I have never been caught’. This may lead to the conclusion (belief) that I’m not going to be caught, which could also be supported by the creation of the belief, ‘I drive as good drunk as I do sober’. The motive for this loss of integrity is almost exclusively the feelings we experience whilst drinking alcohol. Alcohol and drugs can feel so good that we may want to prolong the experience through continued consumption. Unfortunately, alcohol can impair judgement and physical performance. The moral compromise is created using code that is assembled along the following lines.
The believer, compromises his own mind by knowingly introducing a variable about risk or consequences:
if drink == “alcohol” and chance_of_being_caught > 0.5:
action = “taxi”
else:
action = “drive”
The desire for sex is not only an effect of consuming alcohol. Alcohol also has a profound effect on the mind’s ability to sustain its discernment and judgement which has been a factor in many violent crimes, including rape. Alcohol is used as a tool to temporarily shut down the moral constraints that prevent enjoyment, laughter and in many cases, arousal. The two biggest forces that cause us to edit our mind’s personal code (beliefs) are ‘fear’ and ‘desire’. Galatians 5:19-21 (KJV) “Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.”
When someone gets between us and our ‘desires’ we can become jealous, violent, hateful, heretical, dishonest, selfish and this can lead to the development of numerous commands (beliefs), which our mind can and will act upon. Listen to a football hooligan talk about the fans of an opposing football team and it is like listening to someone talking about their enemy. This can and does lead to violence. Listen to a constituent who votes for one political party talk about someone who votes for the opposing party.
Propaganda is produced in order to obtain the faith of the masses. Propaganda is a number of proposed beliefs that ‘demonise’ a target group. This leads to beliefs that not only justify disrespect, hatred and violence, but if believed, will literally edit the mind’s perception of the target group, leading to a change in our behaviour towards them. The power of beliefs to control the mind of a believer is ‘absolute’. That power is faith. The body’s fear of pain, can create what some refer to as a coward. This label is not helpful. Fear is a ‘perceptually induced neurochemical response’ that is felt in the body. It is a function (belief) that is created to inhibit.
Proverbs 9:10 (KJV) “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.” We have the power (faith) to do anything, unless we believe we cannot. This is because the belief that we cannot is also empowered by faith. Each and every one of our beliefs has faith. The following saying is attributed to Henry Ford: “A man who believes he can and man who believes he cannot, are both right”. This is sometimes stated as: “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t—you’re right.” This literally describes how faith works.
The commandments were given to create a world that we can all share in peace and harmony. These commands are lines of existential code. They can only be empowered by ‘faith’. Every ‘I-belief’ is a rule-enforcing instruction. These instructions are absolute unless and until we create an ‘if’, ‘elif’ and/or ‘then’ rule. So as children our friends may say why don’t you throw stones and break some windows in a derelict or abandoned house. My response may be: ‘because its wrong, and if I do, I will be punished’. Then our friends may say, ‘only if you get caught’.
This indicates that the child has been educated (programmed) to believe that they will be punished and fear of punishment is much stronger than the moral argument that it is wrong to damage someone else’s property. If the child can be persuaded to believe they won’t get caught and therefore will not be punished, they may create new line of code (belief), along the lines of: “If I don’t tell anyone, no one will know and I won’t get punished”. Then they unconsciously construct a belief that supports the breaking of windows, using ‘if’ or ‘elif’ or ‘else’ statements. The desire (feelings) to fit in and be liked may be stronger than the awareness of their personal moral responsibility and obligation. The obligation is to ‘self’.
This is how the mind works! The introduction of this kind of compromise creates moral conflict. The moral conflict is created to permit immoral behaviour. This is assisted by creating contemplated contexts that justify where and when some behaviours are acceptable and when and where they are not. This is how we corrupt our own mind. Corruption of the mind is like corruption of the code. If we do not run the code several times under different conditions a bug may be present that is not apparent and is not detected immediately. What works perfectly at six years of age may create a profound psychological problem later in life. The mind is eternal and once the code is created it operates ‘perfectly’ until it is edited. Many people live with limitation for their entire life, not realising that every mind is not only equal, but it’s potential is unlimited. If when you enter 2 + 2, the result equals 9, and you know that the result is incorrect, this means that the method of calculation is incorrect. The only thing a mind can lack is understanding.
Integrity is required to ensure that our personal code (beliefs) is not compromised. The belief that I must love my wife and children and be faithful, must not be compromised by conflicting beliefs. The reason an individual may create conflicting code (beliefs) may be due to a loss of sexual attraction, sexual attraction to someone outside of the marriage or a lack of sexual fulfilment within it. In life, we do everything for the feeling! This may lead to the belief (code) that ‘I DESERVE MORE’. This belief opens the door to thoughts about what ‘MORE’ looks like. If it looks like someone else, a believer may use their mind to create fantasies about someone else.
This in itself is not the act of infidelity or adultery, but it is likely to lead to an addiction to those thoughts, which lead to ideas. Matthew 5:27–28 (KJV) “Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.” As long as the individual does not change the belief that I must be faithful, or create a conflicting belief that disempowers it, they will be faithful. However, the belief that I deserve more, can bring thoughts that could result in the creation of an awareness of what something more looks like. This is where any qualifying people who fit the role of our fantasy, become the focus of our attention. This is when there is a risk to our mind’s integrity. If we strike up a conversation and there is rapport, the fantasy now has a subject which may lead to the creation of new, conflicting beliefs that remove the mind’s moral integrity. This removes the behavioural (volitional) limits that are necessary for a life of integrity.
This is where statements like: ‘I know I should not, but’ begin to contaminate how we contemplate potential opportunities for sin. The contemplation of situations and opportunities, where the person will not get caught, begin to enter the mind. This leads to fantasies about how to cheat without getting caught. This can become a compelling fantasy and bring a person closer to acquiring a conflicting belief that compromises and diminishes the power of the belief: ‘I must be faithful’. Contemplating doing something that goes against our own values, as long as the other person does not find out, is a temptation.
We succumb to temptation through self-deception. For example, the belief: “if I could sleep with someone else without my spouse ever finding out, it would do not harm.” This is a contextually specific example of how we compromise the integrity of our own mind. We are born with sovereignty over our own mind. The ability to self-programme the mind is something that is God-given. This ability is exploited by others who seek to vicariously programme our mind for their benefit of the benefit of the systemic paradigm they personally exploit. Religion, Education, Politics, Marketing, Sales, Potential Spouses and those seeking one night stands all compete for our faith in their words, through the manipulation of our perception.
Faith is the power of God given to man. Beliefs about others determine our perception of them. Every single emotional response, ‘without exception’, is a perceptually induced neurochemical response. What we believe about our self in existential terms, we will become. To be born again means to take back sovereignty over our own mind and withdraw our faith in all the beliefs that compromise our integrity. This is the end of personal doubt. When we know, we have no need of beliefs, because we know. An addict’s integrity is compromised by the fact that they want to stop the lows but they don’t want to stop experiencing the highs.
Mark 3:25 KJV “And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.” The whole mind is collective, not personal. The whole mind is the kingdom of heaven, where all prayers are answered. ‘I can’, creates the karma of some and ‘I can’t’ creates the karma for others. Our life, is the answer to our prayers. Beliefs are prayers and all prayers are answered. The belief ‘I can’ and the belief ‘I cannot’ are both realised. Matthew 7:7-8 (KJV) “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.”
Integrity is a mind that does not have conflicting beliefs. A software that has conflicting lines of code will create bugs. The cause of these bugs will be one or more lines of conflicting code working to achieve conflicting objectives. This is experienced by the feeling of ‘doubt’ when faced with the conflicting choice of desire or obligation. Once detected by a software engineer, the bug is fixed and the functional objective is achieved. In life, theft, dishonesty, rape and murder are the effect of bugs in the mind. We can say that the person lacks morality or that they are evil. That is an easy and extremely lazy way of looking at how the mind operates. If we compare a criminal with a person who does not commit crime, they may look the same and they may dress the same. What is different is the code (beliefs) that operates their individual minds. The mind is a subtle form of the body. The body is a denser form of the mind.