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Podcast: https://anchor.fm/nobelia/episodes/The-Young-Young-Mans-Story--Ch1-Part-2-e2fsed

Continued from Part 1: https://is.gd/ig6fWa

L: - "..."

The Young Man: - 'When my mother had so stupidly said in response to my displeased reaction at missing the fly, hitting and exploding the light-bulb: "Well we can't be perfect," I knew it was based on a short-sighted and limited perspective. And I said most earnestly: "Why not?" Rhetorical to my mother, but not to me. And lol, little did I know, not to the Universe either.

The first thing I did, right then...'

L: - "..."

The Young Man: - '...was to go to my room, close the door, lie down, and...Think.
I thought, well, why can't one be perfect? Then I thought, well to be perfect, one, first of all, has to know what perfection means. I thought about what I had heard in this regard. Stuff like: "Well who would want to be perfect, that would be sooo boring." !!! Just blew my mind. Made no sense. if it was boring it would hardly be perfect. Really? The logic! Confounded me how people could say something which was so obviously and plainly self-contradictory. but I saw then how they just believed ideas, believed what they had heard, and had not thought about it. Just could not make sense, so I threw it out.

Then there was the idea that perfection is impossible to attain. This made more sense. But still, it troubled me. So I thought yes, but who is saying what that standard is. I had no answer. So I thought I would make my own. I would figure it out.'

L: - "I've been wanting to hear this story! :) "

The Young Man: -  'I thought about it for a long time. Formulating this way and that. Looking at perfection from every angle I could. If perfection couldn't be boring, then it must be fun, enjoyable, even more, rapturous, blissful, ecstatic and so on. Thus perfection would be what we would want. Also fulfilling, satisfying on all levels. However, we didn't always know what we wanted, through lack of imagination, but, we always could recognise what we *didn't* want. We'd want something different, if we could... Thus I Thought-It-Through-To-The-End, until eventually I came up with this definition of Perfection:

"Perfection is the state, from which, if one had the power to change anything at all, one would not do so."

Just like that, punctuation and all. That's how I ended up with it.'

L: - "Good definition! Makes sense!"



The Young Man: - 'I took my definition to heart, for me it was then my goal. Because when I had said "Why not?" it had been a profoundly Earnest question. A statement also, a statement of amazed wonder. I was astonished in that "Why Not?' that this was not automatically a goal and a motivation. My "Why not?" was the shock of realization this was not obviously so for my mother, and by implication, all in that one moment, not generally so.'

L: - "Hmmm..."

The Young Man: - 'But to me, not something I was willing to forgo as a life goal, as a personal goal. I felt incredibly strongly, that how could one *NOT* pursue Perfection. It was the only logical thing to do in life.'


L: - "Wow ..."

The Young Man: - 'Haha why Hmmm? Because of the Implication inherent in her statement that this was not a goal generally?'

L: - "Oh no! Like I was thinking. ...that's all! Got me thinking. ...Don't stop!!"

The Young Man: - 'Ah lol, no no, much more to come. I'll say, The End, when done. :)

That most obvious logical goal of perfection, how could it be anything else, surely this was the goal for all? Amazed my mind. But it was so to me. I didn't care it wasn't so for my mother, or anyone else for that matter. I had always known she was a silly person despite being intelligent. So didn't overly surprise me. But it was that, *WE.*'

The Implication *others* may also believe as she did was disturbing. Not of course that there were obviously others like her, that was obviously so, but that it was *generally* so by implication of the *we,* and her tone, general demeanour and all the other ways we communicate, she wasn't referring to any limited group. When I put it all together, had to be general.”

L: - "Ahah!"

The Young Man: - 'If such an obvious goal wasn't generally seen to be so, had to be because of the flawed conception of Perfection. Haha yes, I thought conception then. Don't ask me how.

That's why I had to examine the Concept and definition of Perfection. But didn't end there... Once I had my definition I set about what was to become a lifelong habit...'

Continued in Part 3...

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Podcast: https://anchor.fm/nobelia/episodes/The-Young-Young-Mans-Story--Ch1-Part-1-e2flif

Chapter 1 - The Day The Light-Bulb Exploded
“The Young Man had been chatting with a friend,” Biella explained, “part of a months-long Extended Conversation, some of it lost. We pick up the story in the middle somewhere. The Young Man once commented there were no starts to his stories. Wherever started, one had to accept something came before. He said the starts to his stories had to be endured, as they soon became clear. One just had to stick around for a bit.”
Biella grinned, enjoying the mystery she was setting. "... and so it is here.” Biella smiled fondly, she loved this recounting. about as complete as could be when it came to the Young Man. “Actually the story is of the Young Young Man, *and* of the Young Boy.”
“Bonus!!” said Ursula, “I'm assuming those terms he himself used, yes?”
“Yes indeed. They mark distinct phases of his life. We start right in the thick of an interaction, somewhat of a lead up before we get to the younger stories. Okay, are you all ready?” Receiving unanimous confirming nods she said, “Right, good, here goes:
The Young Man was saying, '... Okay now a story concerning this is needed, lol.
So....
'So as You know, at the end of my Grand Reading Project, of reading all the classics in Religion, Philosophy, and Literature, it all culminated in the U bringing Carlos to me.And it was like just exactly what I had been Intending...'”
Biella sent a link to everyone in the group: Reading Story, with a note: 'Details of the Reading Story written separately by him at another date.'
“The Young Man had continued: 'I had set to work reading all of Carlos, with my red pen very very busy. At that time his books weren't all published yet either. I pulled all of those red pen parts and wrote them into a huge notebook, hardcover. this was just before computers. Then I arranged my extracts and drew that first primitive info-graphic...'”
L: - "Wow!"
The Young Man: - 'This was before my Heart and I had the restaurant, but later I bought a computer for it, and, spreadsheets! What a miracle they were. You probably remember maybe also when they first appeared, so revolutionary. Fantastic stuff.'
L: - "Haha yeah, I like em."
The Young Man: - 'I took all my underlined parts, was a lot, more than one book's worth, and typed it all into a spreadsheet. Lol, no scanners yet,'
L: - "..."
The Young Man: - 'Then, as I typed all that in, I put the page numbers in a column, I also added tags, ha, long before tags. But to me they were categories, headings or groupings. Like say all the parts I had underlined concerning *Dreaming.*I wanted to be able to sort them into different concepts, so I could have all the pulls on a topic in one place. Some went into multiple sections. I arranged and sorted it all, with three different main formats. Lol. I must have read those books a dozen times each, the first eight.'
L: - "Wow! That's how it all started!"
The Young Man: - 'Well no. It all started The Day the Light-bulb Exploded. This is the tail end. I'll get to that story in a bit.
One main format was: The Warrior's Way - all the pulls in the same order as the books. Then I had another book with the same pulls, but arranged by topic. Like Dreaming, Death as an Adviser, Erasing Personal History, etc. arranged under subheadings. Much as DJ had grouped many of them. Like, Assuming Personal Responsibility, Eliminating Self-Importance, and using Death as an Adviser he said were all techniques for Erasing Personal History. There were also three others.
But anyway. Erasing Personal History was one of a few techniques all geared to Stopping the Internal Dialogue. I arranged all these under those main headings for the topics book. Or that was the final result. And remember, this is coming after the great reading project. So not discovery anymore, but Manifestation!'
L: - "This sounds like how the philosophy started to materialise. Yes manifest, haha."

The Young Man: - 'Ah no - this I have to emphasise, that's what I am trying to say. The Philosophy was in place long before Carlos. Before the Grand Reading Project also. But of course I did not have the Perspective to fully see, or realise this.
Manifestation yes. That's what it was to me, fantastic. I had accumulated so so so much before I even started that great books campaign. From my own field studies, from my intense Thinking-It-Through-To-The-End sessions. Haha, I couldn't even then leave any idea alone until I had figured it out. An intense something for an already intense and earnest person who also happened to be a teenager. :)
The Gift of Carlos, was not only everything I had red-lined throughout all the reading project, but also all my own material, nicely together in one place, and, the critical part, in great language!!!This was key. None of the concepts in Carlos were new, which surprises most people who know his work, especially those who are into it. But all his stuff was around before him, just all spread out. That's exactly what I had encountered in my reading project. No one had it all nice and contained. I had recognised most of what's in Carlos, from the reading, but mostly from myself, however, his arrangement was cohesive, a huge important difference. Or at least DJ had it all together.
Haha there's actually a "debunker" of Carlos who wrote a book specifically showing where else all the concepts are found from others. Richard B something if I remember correctly.What's so awesome for me with Carlos, was not the originality of the philosophy, because it isn't in its individual aspects, but that it was all nicely and more or less coherently in one place. However also not the most exciting part, it was the language...
I have to back up a bit here....
From the Day the Light-Bulb Exploded, that's the day the philosophy started. *My* Philosophy. That was a day I consciously and deliberately began a Pursuit of Perfection. *MY* definition of Perfection. This defining the very first act of Philosophising I undertook deliberately. Right on that very day. That's when it all started...
Continued in Part 2: https://is.gd/vBkmav
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