Chapter 8- Engineering: Contraindicated

Activities Contraindicated:

• Linguistics
• Commerce
• Soulless sexual activity
• Pseudo-intellectualism
• Cooking meats, butchering & slaughtering
• Suppressive drug taking (anti-depressives included)

For practical purposes, for the engineeringly deficient it is preferable that all manner of linguistical activity is avoided (save using a singular language). Whilst there are many benefits that come from incorporating more than one body of language into our refined thinking, there can be also more overwhelming aspects into the consciousness which interrupt the thinking processes because of them. 

 

All languages hold differing characteristics according to their time of origin and the prevailing thoughts experienced at that period. Every nation has offered the world their gifts and talents, and these qualities specific to each live on within their tools of expression. Much is incorporated into a living language and is carried from century to century, indicative of its parent-thought and parent-creations.

As was previously discussed, it is desirable for the engineeringly inept to begin with a singularity of purpose, rather than attempt to be conversant with many things at the one time. As language works powerfully in and around one’s thinking, it is best advised to feature just the one in discipline, than be libertine between two or more and vulnerable to the conflicting persuasions thereof.

Commerce is contraindicated because the nature of commercial activity itself contravenes good and effective engineering endeavours. It is not possible for a man to be involved in both with self-interest and succeed.

It is true to say that the Cathedral engineers were most ambitious in all that they set out to do and achieved, but their ambition had not to do with the transactional repercussions from that which they saw built.

Philosophically one could argue that structure is co-operative, as is transaction – and yet they are dissimilar and opposing influences in relation to their causative effects. The flows of finances and goods involves cyclical activity which is primarily fluidic when put to use. Commerce moves continually, economics itself is one heaving, breathing and regulating body which encompasses the transactions of worldly trade within … however, even with the necessary pauses at the completion of each conjunction, of each trade made, there is a follow-on consequence which flows through effecting other areas, and so on.

When it comes to the nature of engineering we are looking to a condition of fixedness, rather than flow. In order that we materialise any concept and keep it bound in actuality, its perpetual value shall be in the fixed condition, rather than in its fluidity. There is no transactional activity, as one would contradict and stress the other. Of course all good engineering makes allowances for some parameters of change (winds, sands, climates etc), but the strength of the project is in its permanence and structure, not in its plasticity or changeability.

Soulless sexual activity is a nonsense to the constitution and psyche of an individual. Although it may represent something which is stimulating and releasing, physically it is unsatisfying to the happinesses, whereby in turn, eventually causing much grief because of it. Were someone to feed you a food that appeared as a food – looked and smelt and tasted very good like a food – yet, in reality was but an inert starch, on some levels both your body and your consciousness would know it. After time the reality would prove itself, particularly if this is all one had to feed on.

Not one person can judge this consideration for another. Genuine mutuality and love shared with joy, considerateness and passion brings into the world those wonders which are beyond plans and singular visions in this true combining. A quality of the good engineer is to understand that which he cannot do on his own undertaking. Whereas the fellow bereft of this quality believes that he can manipulate forces and people into his will’s domain. He is unrealistic in his expectations and goes on to settle for the artificiality which he himself has then invited.

We are therefore cautioned when embarking upon those acts which involve a measure of selfless loving to be offered from ourselves in the deed, but conspire to take from them instead. 

Pseudo-intellectualism is but another instance of the artificiality prevailing over the man who would be king, but not bear the responsibilities of his sovereignty!

There is an opinion that suggests that a man’s low self-esteem will lead him into such bad behaviours as this front of cleverness for example, but we would say no, this is not the case. In this instance the weakness itself is born in false ego, in the assumption, not of much goodness within, but rather emphasising self-importance (and generally over others).

This kind of individual after death is often found ordering invisible servants to do his bidding – believing that he has an authority and power which clearly he has not. It isn’t so much a matter of feeling poorly and trying to compensate for the condition, because the compensation could and should be found in improvement were that this were genuine, or in featuring the talents one does have. It is moreover an inflated sense of self-importance which has no real workable substance or practicality underpinning it.
 

Cooking meats, butchering and slaughtering are best avoided as they involve a certain disintegration of life, exposure to bloods and an indifference to death.

Drugs which suppress the sympathetic and empathetic reasonings are dangerous to all, and particularly in relation to the poorly displaced in engineering, who are generally unresponsive to the conditions of others as it is. As you may have gathered thus far, this is a malady of subjective selfishness which naturally occurs in each man and woman to some degree, but is accentuated by its persistence in some who have not the ability to objectify accurately the perceivable truths in the world about them.

Unfortunately the use of such suppressive medications or alcohols will render the individual more hapless in this regard. Self-internment is painful. A healthy ego may be self-contained in its process, but in its action it is capable of stepping out from itself with great dexterity. The experience of being loving is both joyful and freeing because it releases the individual from this sense of self-internment and the internal stresses and concentrates are released also in the experience.

It is difficult for an individual to become considerate as to the needs of others if they have not the sympathies or empathies to alert them as they present. However, if the desire is there to develop for the sake of the folk around them, it can be achieved and acquired very rapidly. Selfishness is not a terminal personality fault! Neither is it something which the people around the selfish need to suffer from them to support any particular cause as if it is an indelible weakness. To suffer much selfish behaviour is often to encourage it. No man or woman is obliged to grin and bear the outright inconsiderateness of another and accept it as being purely ‘them’!

Medications remove the responsibility from the individual also in this regard. They suggest that he or she is not capable of working upon their own happiness and the happiness of others. We suggest (quite happily and with hope) that this is otherwise.