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and passion interferes
with rationality. Life is a learning experience, and when it is
so regarded, the education gained is just what a person needs to
succeed.
The fact is that all the genuine discoveries since the discovery
of fire, and perhaps before, were stumbled upon or resulted from
a calculated study of nature and its laws. Despite that fact, in
general, society is reluctant to consider that social activities
are also under the control of a natural law.
After half a century, professionals in
the field of behavioral studies still compete with material developed
by the late Richard W. Wetherill as a result of his having identified
the social law. They change the wording somewhat, and present
it as their own. For example, Wetherill's coined word unthink
is changed to unlearn. The command phrase technique developed
by Wetherill is twisted into "a process of retrieving and deleting some of the earliest
life-lesson programs stored on the internal hard drive of the heart." They
instruct people to erase those early programs such as "most
people will hurt you," "people are lazy," or "people
will cheat you if you let them."
Where their versions really deviate from
Wetherill's information is when the professionals advise people
to reprogram themselves with commands such as "when you share, you will be rewarded
tenfold," and "do to others what they want you to do
to them."
The social law stipulates that people should
not program themselves with their own ideas—however right
they may seem. Rather they should dump the contents of their
internal behavioral data bases. Then they can contact reality
and let the needs of each situation indicate the right action
to be taken.
The social law states that right action gets
right results, whereas wrong action gets wrong results. It is
wrong action to form unfounded judgments—something everybody
starts to do at the moment of birth. Why not? How could an infant
know what is happening nor how to respond. Surrounded by everything
that is new and different, the infant does the best he/she can
to cope.
As people mature, they go on assuming the burden of personally
coping with whatever happens. That decision keeps their attention
directed inward to their feelings and/or to their desires. Do people
make decisions based on feelings and desires with regard to gravity
or momentum? Not after they experience the hurts inflicted on them
by their disregard of those natural laws.
It is essential for people to know that their wrong results are
traceable to their wrong action which is traceable to their wrong
thinking. It is even more vital for people to know that right results
are traceable to their thinking when it is logical, appropriate
and moral as specified by the social law.
There is a popular delusion that gratifying one's wants or desires
gets right results, and it is that delusion which is fueling society's
global chaos. The wants and desires of roughly six billion people
worldwide, are compellingly motivating the global community for
all the antisocial behavior being reported daily.
The tragedy is that the fighting, killing,
starving and suffering of society will not be stopped by philanthropy,
legislation or any other human effort. It will be stopped when
people strive as hard to be socially right as they are now striving
to satisfy their wants and desires—however noble or ignoble
they might be.
Not only is our universe controlled by laws of nature, but our
societal affairs are also under the direction of a natural law.
Be Right or Go Wrong is the title of one of the books we publish,
and that title expresses a warning to the foolish as well as a
heartening disclosure from the creator to all who honor its message.
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