Intent

如有 「王道」 及 「霸道」, 那麼 ‘君道’一定雙方都可抵達.

“When Enoch had lived 65 years, he became the father of Methuselah. After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked faithfully with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters. Altogether, Enoch lived a total of 365 years. Enoch walked faithfully with God; then he was no more, because God took him away.”

– Genesis 5:21-24

Since today was a day I could be proud of, I thought I’ll write about intent vs. action.

I’ve struggled for the longest time to understand what is the Path forward. What defines a person in the eyes of our maker? Is it intent or action? I came to the conclusion: if you have to choose between doing nothing and bathing in whatever fame or moral pleasure you attain from doing charitable acts, choose the latter. Realize however that they are both far from ideal; insofar as you have an ideal.

This corollary expands upon one of Peterson’s original forty rules.

“If you have to choose, be the one who does things, instead of the one who is seen to do things.”

– Rule #5, Jordan Peterson’s original 42 rules

I’m not sure you could say doing the ‘right thing’ is ‘walking faithfully’ but not doing the right thing certainly isn’t (lol). We might think of action as the precursor to intent, and the holy unification of the two as walking the ‘Right Path’ or in other words, ‘walking faithfully’ with God.

Later, I also had the piercing insight that with enough time and influence, they become one and the same. For you can’t even fool your pathetic self your whole life, what makes you think you can fool the world?

“Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost…”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

It’s the maxim ‘faking it till you make it’. If you can successfully delude the entire public regarding your every intention in every facet of life and not collapse from anxiety – then congratulations; we’ll come back to this argument then. But who amongst you are deluded enough to not recognize that we reap what we sow?

“Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”

– Galatians 6:7

How many must we witness before curbing our arrogance?
How many Bill Clintons? Jeffery Epsteins? Tiger Woods’? Will and Jada Smiths? Prince Andrews?

Ah! But I know there are some of you, if not indeed all of you that think, in the deep recesses of your mind: “if I had that much power, I’d be smarter and wouldn’t make the same mistakes they did.” I know! Because I can feel this temptation most pertinently!