{"id":11672,"date":"2010-03-26T17:49:55","date_gmt":"2010-03-27T00:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=11672"},"modified":"2010-06-26T07:52:45","modified_gmt":"2010-06-26T14:52:45","slug":"splendorquest-redemption-is-egoism-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/11672\/splendorquest-redemption-is-egoism-in-action\/","title":{"rendered":"SplendorQuest: Redemption is egoism in action<\/u><\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is clipped from a book I wrote in 1988<\/a> — a book I really need to write anew. It’s an epistolary novel, so the writing is kind of affected. I expect you can worry your way through it. “Madness,” as the term is used here, is an attempt to claim, as knowledge, a proposition the proponent knows in advance is invalid. –GSS<\/em><\/p>\n

 
Redemption Is A Being Aware.<\/p>\n

Redemption is finding Splendor in Rectitude. But much more importantly, Redemption Is Egoism In Action.<\/p>\n

Egoism is the worship of<\/i> the self by<\/i> the self, all<\/i> the time, for<\/i> all time. Egoism Is A Being Aware of who he is and what he is doing and why — all<\/i> the time. It is the pursuit always of values and never of disvalues, always of pleasure and never of pain, always of Truth and never of Madness. Egoism is the recognition that the fullest value<\/i> of the self is realized through the fullest knowledge<\/i> of the self.<\/p>\n

Egoism is knowing and doing<\/i> the good through time.<\/i> It is a set of ideas, but ideas devoid of meaning if they are not put into practice. One can know Splendor by taking those actions one thinks are right. But one cannot know it by merely thinking<\/i> about what is right, without acting upon it.<\/p>\n

Redemption Is Egoism In Action,<\/i> in the real deeds of your real life. By your self-loving actions, you redeem the errors of your past and make of them the achievements<\/i> of your present and future.<\/p>\n

It is not impossible to avoid<\/i> doing this. Most people waste their whole lives<\/i> trying to pretend that past errors need not be corrected. But neither is it possible to avoid the consequences of failing at redemption.<\/p>\n

The future is<\/i> open to change, but only by choice. Any person can take what he has and make of it what he would. If<\/i> he is willing to make the effort. But he will not<\/i> have his desires without fighting for them, without mothering<\/i> them into being. The soul he creates for himself is the one he acts<\/i> to create. If he fails to act for Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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