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| The formula for life is energy + work = life. It's that simple. I didn't make this up. This truth has existed since life has existed. In this formula, the word "energy" represents a resource of some kind. The word "work" represents this resource being converted into action. Work is the act of using energy to create, or sustain, life. Energy + work = life. All life requires work. Anyone telling you differently is most likely attempt to get you to do their work for them. Apply this simple formula to our world and you'll see where all our problems lie. In the natural world, it's much easier to see this formula in action. A seed lays in the dirt, rain falls from the sky and sun shines on it all then a plant begins to grow. The dirt, the water and the sunlight are all resources. The seed does the work. It's pretty amazing. How does it know? It has natural programming within it. A beaver chews down trees and drags them across a stream piling them up along with mud and rocks to build a dam. The dam creates a pond in which the beaver builds its lodge surrounded by water safe from predators and full of aquatic vegetation that the beaver eats. The bark on the trees and the vegetation in the pond are resources the beaver uses. Beavers do serious work. Bees work. Ants work. All living things work. They all have their own natural programming which they obey. Their obedience is less of a choice than it is an expression of their existence. They live to play their role in Mother Nature's design. They are compelled to do this. It's quite a system. If an animal doesn't do the work necessary to sustain its life, it dies. This is natural law. Then there's the man-made world which has created it's own artificial laws. I should call it the human-made world to be politically correct or even the mind-made world since the world in which we live is a product of our minds. In this artificial world, the basic formula for life gets thrown out the window. The formula in this world, especially in our country, unfortunately, has become "do the least amount of work for the most amount of money." Money, however, is not a resource. It is a human invention with no value of its own. A system built on a valueless idea will fail. This is a simple fact because the system is unsound. It never ceases to amaze me that people are surprised by the worsening state of the world when the most valuable thing in this world has no value. What do they expect? If actual values aren't required to accumulate the highest commodity in a culture, that culture is destined to collapse. Without true value, a resource cannot play its natural role in the formula for life. An artificial idea serves only those who invented it, and control it. Remove the other component in the formula for life, work, and it's no longer a formula at all. It's just a bunch of ideas strung together for its own self-serving purpose with no connection to the truth. The major difference between the formula for life and an artificial system is their purpose. One creates and sustains life by obeying natural law while the other was designed to eliminate work for some by exploiting the work of others. What's the point in playing a game by someone else's rules especially if those rules are constantly being changed to favor those who make them? Life is not a game. This world we've created sadly is, an unhealthy and unsustainable one. Life is a beautiful balance between resources and work. How this balance came into existence is an amazing phenomenon that we get to be a part of. The formula for life is built upon true values and can only be maintained by those who live according to them. Anything else and we're just living on borrowed time. The game only works on those who don't know the truth, or have forgotten it. In the natural world, life relies on natural programming. In the artificial world, the system relies on mental programming. Unfortunately, those who have lost their connection to the Earth and the ability to think for themselves are easily programmed because they are no longer grounded to the natural world by true values. How they think is controled by those who maintain this artificial system. However, there is another side to this. Anyone who's had to teach, coach, manage or even govern a large group of people knows that it can be like herding cats. Freedom is a natural, God given right, but with freedom comes responsibility. This is where natural law plays its role. The beaver, the bee and the seed all obey their natural purpose and if they cease to work they will no longer exist. Plain and simple. If people want to claim their right to freedom, they have to be willing to do the work it requires by obeying the formula for life like every other living creature on the planet which teach, manage and govern themselves. If some people are not willing to work and govern themselves by natural law, they cannot complain about being exploited or told what to do by those they've appointed, or allowed, to govern them because they have forfeited this right in order to get out of doing actual work. This is the game that all of them are playing while those honoring their right to freedom continue to work for it. We will soon reach a threshold when those doing all the work will say "Enough!" and those not willing to work, rich and poor, will be held accountable. Natural law is irrefutable. The tide will eventually roll in like a giant wave leveling everything out. It is impossible to avoid the formula for life. It can only be postponed. One can cheat the system and other people, but no one can cheat life. Some may try to enjoy the game for as long as they can, consume as much as they can and distract themselves with all that they can while knowing deep down inside what is inevitably coming. Those who do real work will be strong enough to weather this natural equalizer. The lazy, rich and poor, who refuse to work will have to face the truth eventually. It will not end well for them. The good news is that those who are willing to work inherently realize that they love it. I love it. I didn't, at first. It took me a while to arrive at this point because I was born in the system just like everyone else and programmed not to like work, but work is completely natural and healthy. It's an expression and celebration of life. Once we remove the mental programming the artificial world tried to install in us and remember our natural purpose, it becomes second nature -first nature, actually, to work and nothing else compares to this way of living. It gives us strong muscles and a fit body. It keeps us healthy, physically and mentally, and, possibly greatest of all, it connects us to this amazing living ecosystem called planet Earth. One of the greatest highs a person can experience is the rush they feel as this life giving energy flows through them. There are many forms of work. It is clear to see that there is no physical difference between work and play. The mental context of the activity is what distinguishes one from the other. In fact, some forms of play are even more strenuous than work, yet we still enjoy them whether it be team sports, dancing, rock climbing, running, etc. Even sex is work. Someone who's avoided work their whole life will never understand this similarity or get to experience it fully. Any negative association with work that exists in our mind-made world was created by those who don't like work, but what they really don't like is themselves. Work requires a person to be present and they will never want to be present if they don't like themselves. Therefore, they'll never want to do actual work. Work isn't the problem. Fear of being present and facing oneself is. Live your life in fear and you'll be ripe for mental programming. Face your fears and you'll be as free as a bird. Birds do work.
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