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Five Points of Calamity November 5, 2009
1. Total Determination
You must determine that you will no longer accept small successes; determine to pursue only colossal failure; determine that you will base every decision on your own opinion and ignore all other factors. If you do not know anything, simply decide what it is. Remember, your reality is the one you create for yourself and regulations provide structure for accomplishment and are therefore to be carefully avoided.
Your radical choosing is the key to your failure. You know best how to generate disasters. You must be vigilant in exercising this skill, however, for you might be inclined at times to succeed. If you are going to be seriously competent in your pursuit of non-accomplishment, be fully committed to the cause!
2. Unconditional Experimentation
There is always a new way to fail, and it is your job to try every possible one. Don't wait for a reason to experiment and try something different; experimentation is an excellent end in itself.
Your goal is to bring about colossal disaster in your lifeāto be a complete failure. How can you expect to fail without continually changing your strategy? You might become accustomed to something and experience good results. Maintain momentum in your crash course to ruin by being entirely irrational.
3. Limited Attention
You must be determined to fail, but be carefree. Do not let anxiety cause you to fret over the future; your future of ruin is certain if you will be true to your own will to do whatever pleases you and dependable in your faithfulness to mindless experimentation.
The path you have chosen is easy! Don't worry about it! You can think about many things at once. Never permit any one thing to crowd out any distractions that may please you.
Limit the amount of attention you give to anything. After all, what could be so important as to require your undivided concentration? Your future of doom is certain if you will only waste your present.
4. Irresistible Goading
Your limited attention will help you to be goaded into the activities that will aid your downfall. Don't think! Thought has prevented many spectacular failures from happening. Why miss any of the excitement that could be yours?
Of course, if you choose to cause others to help you be destructive, you will need to make your own goading irresistible. Remind them of how much fun they will have in joining you. If you need some encouragement on your journey or if you doubt its success, look no further for comfort, for the last point will provide it for you.
5. Preservation of Senselessness
Thoughtlessness today promotes thoughtlessness tomorrow. Ignorance today secures ignorance for the future.
Your goal is to destroy your future. Such a far-off goal can be frustrating, however. Focus rather on manageable things that will immediately make a difference: your daily actions. If you can waste today, you will not have to worry about wasting tomorrow.
Simply be faithful to your mission and you will enjoy a fast-paced and meaningless life. Hard work has bruised many; ambition is frequently disappointed. You can be confident that your efforts are not in vain, for trouble always comes to those who seek it.