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	<title>Comments on: 7 Rules To Re-Claim the Ownership of Your Mind</title>
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		<title>By: Don’t be a Sellout: A Guide to Staying Real</title>
		<link>http://www.illuminatedmind.net/2008/08/14/7-essential-rules-to-re-claim-ownership-of-your-mind/#comment-27630</link>
		<dc:creator>Don’t be a Sellout: A Guide to Staying Real</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Not care about how much money you have, how productive you are, or how popular you are. Instead you care about how much you control your time and how much you own your own mind. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Not care about how much money you have, how productive you are, or how popular you are. Instead you care about how much you control your time and how much you own your own mind. [...]</p>
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		<title>By: John</title>
		<link>http://www.illuminatedmind.net/2008/08/14/7-essential-rules-to-re-claim-ownership-of-your-mind/#comment-22419</link>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dood...You nailed it !  I so agree with you.  You have this very palateable way of flying in the face of the traditional/dead philosophies in life.  Bravo !  I read the words Create! Create! Create! everywhere in your work.  I love it !  To Life !</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dood&#8230;You nailed it !  I so agree with you.  You have this very palateable way of flying in the face of the traditional/dead philosophies in life.  Bravo !  I read the words Create! Create! Create! everywhere in your work.  I love it !  To Life !</p>
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		<title>By: Ryan Davis</title>
		<link>http://www.illuminatedmind.net/2008/08/14/7-essential-rules-to-re-claim-ownership-of-your-mind/#comment-16112</link>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Davis</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 06:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s important to be tactful when questioning authority. Some people question authority without thinking about the reason. Use your brain sometimes they are authority for a reason.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s important to be tactful when questioning authority. Some people question authority without thinking about the reason. Use your brain sometimes they are authority for a reason.</p>
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		<title>By: Annaly</title>
		<link>http://www.illuminatedmind.net/2008/08/14/7-essential-rules-to-re-claim-ownership-of-your-mind/#comment-15085</link>
		<dc:creator>Annaly</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:47:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You expressed some ideas I was kicking around perfectly. My favorite--don&#039;t be a tool. Nice read!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You expressed some ideas I was kicking around perfectly. My favorite&#8211;don&#8217;t be a tool. Nice read!</p>
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		<title>By: Arow Blackdragon</title>
		<link>http://www.illuminatedmind.net/2008/08/14/7-essential-rules-to-re-claim-ownership-of-your-mind/#comment-13764</link>
		<dc:creator>Arow Blackdragon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@1776blues: &#039;The example above&#039; that you note in the opening of your comment takes the tone that Jonathan has laid down exhaustive and all-inclusive &#039;rules.&#039; Please note: &quot;If you feel like any of these don’t apply to you, please break them.&quot; The fact that you refused to see beyond the *suggestion* and took it as an absolute is a perfect example of Jonathan&#039;s point in the value of questioning authority... I&#039;m pretty sure his focus was more on encouragement to face irrational fears, i.e. fear of heights or fear of public speaking.

As for #5, and the Judge/Victim concept, my own little internal court-room drama usually followed a time-worn script of the Victim saying &quot;I didn&#039;t know,&quot; as the Judge screams &quot;How could you have not?&quot; I was able to finally transcend this one when I learned that &quot;All important decisions must be made on the basis of insufficient data.&quot; I can only make the best decisions for me with the knowledge I have at the time a decision is made. Period.

But, the flip side is, knowing that I&#039;ll make a few bad decisions here and there does not exempt me from doing my best, anyway.

I do like revisiting this post, and seeing how it&#039;s evolved and grown over time (nearly a year!!!!).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@1776blues: &#8216;The example above&#8217; that you note in the opening of your comment takes the tone that Jonathan has laid down exhaustive and all-inclusive &#8216;rules.&#8217; Please note: &#8220;If you feel like any of these don’t apply to you, please break them.&#8221; The fact that you refused to see beyond the *suggestion* and took it as an absolute is a perfect example of Jonathan&#8217;s point in the value of questioning authority&#8230; I&#8217;m pretty sure his focus was more on encouragement to face irrational fears, i.e. fear of heights or fear of public speaking.</p>
<p>As for #5, and the Judge/Victim concept, my own little internal court-room drama usually followed a time-worn script of the Victim saying &#8220;I didn&#8217;t know,&#8221; as the Judge screams &#8220;How could you have not?&#8221; I was able to finally transcend this one when I learned that &#8220;All important decisions must be made on the basis of insufficient data.&#8221; I can only make the best decisions for me with the knowledge I have at the time a decision is made. Period.</p>
<p>But, the flip side is, knowing that I&#8217;ll make a few bad decisions here and there does not exempt me from doing my best, anyway.</p>
<p>I do like revisiting this post, and seeing how it&#8217;s evolved and grown over time (nearly a year!!!!).</p>
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		<title>By: 1776blues</title>
		<link>http://www.illuminatedmind.net/2008/08/14/7-essential-rules-to-re-claim-ownership-of-your-mind/#comment-12557</link>
		<dc:creator>1776blues</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 00:06:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Frankly, I don&#039;t get a lot of this because in some cases it is contradictory in nature. For example, there are real dangers in and to life, but the example above does not examine this. 

The other is and I caught my friend, a student of the illuminated self, who said to stop worrying about the misery of others after which he proceeded to defend the Iraq war because how they were treated like the raping of children. I then told him about what our forces were doing there (Obama refuses to release photos that show the sodomy of young boys). He said no that was not possible and said if they were he would personally take a bat to their heads.

Freeing your mind or illuminating yourself by denying real dangers that exist and no I am not talking about some Muslim terrorist, I am referring to the Illuminati who want you to not put up any resistance while thinking it is all illusory. This will not stop a bullet or stop the authority from imposing martial law.

There is a real threat of war on the horizon and it is evident by all the military movement in this country. One prediction is an attack that will make the government black op called 911 pale in comparison. From what I have read and heard is it will start with the destruction of 7 major cities. Stevequayle.com

Illuminated one; wasn&#039;t that the name given to Lucifer the fallen angel and now referred to as Satan? Yep!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Frankly, I don&#8217;t get a lot of this because in some cases it is contradictory in nature. For example, there are real dangers in and to life, but the example above does not examine this. </p>
<p>The other is and I caught my friend, a student of the illuminated self, who said to stop worrying about the misery of others after which he proceeded to defend the Iraq war because how they were treated like the raping of children. I then told him about what our forces were doing there (Obama refuses to release photos that show the sodomy of young boys). He said no that was not possible and said if they were he would personally take a bat to their heads.</p>
<p>Freeing your mind or illuminating yourself by denying real dangers that exist and no I am not talking about some Muslim terrorist, I am referring to the Illuminati who want you to not put up any resistance while thinking it is all illusory. This will not stop a bullet or stop the authority from imposing martial law.</p>
<p>There is a real threat of war on the horizon and it is evident by all the military movement in this country. One prediction is an attack that will make the government black op called 911 pale in comparison. From what I have read and heard is it will start with the destruction of 7 major cities. Stevequayle.com</p>
<p>Illuminated one; wasn&#8217;t that the name given to Lucifer the fallen angel and now referred to as Satan? Yep!</p>
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		<title>By: How to Tap Into Your Inner Badass</title>
		<link>http://www.illuminatedmind.net/2008/08/14/7-essential-rules-to-re-claim-ownership-of-your-mind/#comment-11225</link>
		<dc:creator>How to Tap Into Your Inner Badass</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 15:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] knows that giving into fear is the mind killer. The more you give into fear, the more you give away ownership of your mind. To cultivate the renegade mindset, you must accustom yourself to act in spite of uncertainty. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] knows that giving into fear is the mind killer. The more you give into fear, the more you give away ownership of your mind. To cultivate the renegade mindset, you must accustom yourself to act in spite of uncertainty. [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Will C</title>
		<link>http://www.illuminatedmind.net/2008/08/14/7-essential-rules-to-re-claim-ownership-of-your-mind/#comment-7440</link>
		<dc:creator>Will C</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>A word has to be said about social consensus, as such remains our only defense from the organized evils of the world, as well as from any overwhelming force beyond the scope of the individual, natural forces, say.  Without at least a basic social consensus, there can be no group response to anything.  This is far from homogeneity, though, and your point made is well taken.  Homogeneity is not something to strive for (of course, it will always remain unattainable anyway).
Still, to my mind, promoting consensus seems a most laudable goal.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A word has to be said about social consensus, as such remains our only defense from the organized evils of the world, as well as from any overwhelming force beyond the scope of the individual, natural forces, say.  Without at least a basic social consensus, there can be no group response to anything.  This is far from homogeneity, though, and your point made is well taken.  Homogeneity is not something to strive for (of course, it will always remain unattainable anyway).<br />
Still, to my mind, promoting consensus seems a most laudable goal.</p>
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		<title>By: How to Beat the Plague of Limiting Beliefs &#124; PickTheBrain &#124; Motivation and Self Improvement</title>
		<link>http://www.illuminatedmind.net/2008/08/14/7-essential-rules-to-re-claim-ownership-of-your-mind/#comment-3576</link>
		<dc:creator>How to Beat the Plague of Limiting Beliefs &#124; PickTheBrain &#124; Motivation and Self Improvement</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Question authority. We have an unnatural habit of thinking that the norm is some unbreakable standard that we should [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Link Medley Personal Growth - Forty Plus Two</title>
		<link>http://www.illuminatedmind.net/2008/08/14/7-essential-rules-to-re-claim-ownership-of-your-mind/#comment-3006</link>
		<dc:creator>Link Medley Personal Growth - Forty Plus Two</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 18:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Jonathan at Illuminated Mind writes about 10 Ways to Avoid Brainwashing and 7 Rules To Re-Claim the Ownership of Your Mind. [...]</description>
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