Makes you want to claw the ego's eyes out,
selling you a bill of goods that way.
Selling you short
down the river
that way.

FALSE REMEDIES!

Supposedly for one purpose,
like happiness
like success
survival,
but actually
for another purpose
an opposite effect
like misery
failure.
death.

And no
it won't bring you back to life
it'll knock you out
and keep you out.
That's ego for you.
—For YOU?

But anyway

There you go,
dancing like crazy
to that dumb drum
that beats life to death.

OF COURSE THERE'S THE GOOD NEWS

But of course
there's a hitch:
In the mind of ego
all good news is trickery.
Hopeful good is a set up
for disappointment and failure.

In egomind
there are many connections
between good things << and >> terrible things.
Loving is closely connected
to being rejected.
Giving is closely connected
to being taken advantage of.

In the ego's mind
good-bad links are so hard wired
when it starts to enter into
the pool of goodness
it can't keep its fingers off the destruct button.

SABOTAGE TIME

You can lead a horse to water
but you can't keep it from pissing in the pool
polluting water
poisoning Life.

And

you can lead a horse to slaughter
but can you make it think?

What's happening?
Ego persona is to blame
it's got you down
Pat.
YOU.
The one it says you are.

And after that
YOU
are desperately trying
to create new associations
adjust your thinking
reinterpret.
But YOU
You devil you
you can't.
Not as the ego-persona,
See what I mean?
See what YOU means?
It means no good.
The one you are, the ego persona you are
has too many bad links hard wired.
Nothing can work that way.
AND
it's an illusion that you can rewire the ego thinking.
Don't buy it,
that silk purse out of a sow's ear stuff.
It's only there to lead you on
and on
and on
deeper
and deeper
into misery.

FALSE REMEDIES!

Ego will never believe this
but
there IS a solution.
and WAIT...
It's NOT more crap.
It's NOT a trap.
It's the Real Thing.

The REAL solution
the ONLY solution
can only be found by
an entirely different YOU
—the one you really ARE
(or at least one who is more like you
than the one you've become
—or think you've become).

The Ego is a Piece of Work
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