No, actually it doesn’t, it means I-have-been-here-before and everytime I use their stuff as lead it leads me to draw some interesting conclusions about what their stuff means and/or doesn’t mean. (That is, I have reason to think that it might be a worthwhile path for me to follow.)
For example, if the Environmentalists have their way they will have us individuals sacrificing our lives and ourselves to ... dirt. Afterall, Mother Earth’s dirt is more important than people isn’t it? This is the direction t.h.e.y are heading with their “save the planet”, “do it for the environment” and other slogans that they generate for the “masses” (that is, for those of us whom t.h.e.y consider to be their inferiors and who need to be herded like so many sheep).
Enter one (possible) protection against the Environmentalists ... material prosperity.
If we individuals have the right to keep what we earn and turn it into a material prosperity of our own choosing then the Environmentalists along with their soul mates the religionists with their stewardship self-image will be considerably less of a threat to our freedoms and our life.
That is, (the epistemological war is forever? ... well ... Yes ... true, but not quite what I wanted to get into here, rather I wanted to make a metaphorical point that goes like this .... that is, ) when t.h.e.y try to fly over our heads and drop their bombs of self-sacrifice on us (or worse, strap those bombs to t.h.e.i.r animal bodies and walk into our materially prosperious shopping malls and self denonate) we can use our anti-aircraft (and swat team) guns of ‘material prosperity’ to shoot them down and/or stop them dead in their tracks as the case may be before they even get to the malls.
And then in this war we can win it with our high tech modern phhilosophhy and psychhology weapons of intellectual self defense as superior to their low tech religion weapons of ego (be it of self and/or of other's ego) destruction.
We can that is if we persevere and don’t give in to those who want egos destroyed and who start by destroying their own ego first and then want yours destroyed because (and as cliched as it is, cliches become cliches for a reason ... because ... ) misery loves company.
But if their egos are destroyed who’s doing the loving?
he said.
Maybe then, egos aren’t destroyed, but are ... transformmed?
we replied.
Maybe,
he said.
tObEcONTINUED,
we say.
I personally did afterall-- with lots 'n lots 'n lots 'n ... so on ... of help from BiO Spiritualism--NOT crossover the selfishness / selflessness LINE. Consequently, I don't know how those who did do the crossover experience themselves in-the-crossover. Do t,h,e,y experience it with the same certainty of having done the right thing as I do for NOT crossing over?
he said.
tObEdETERMINED.
we say.
yes you did,
who said?