12 Rules for Life

An Antidote to Chaos

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

p041: "Women are choosy mates." This would indicate womed drive evolution, by not choosen men with undesirable qualities (see furthe below that page) p054: "Dogs are predators. So are cats. They kill things and eat them." We also know that animals rape, and play with other injured animals, torturing them. But do these animals enjoy hurting others, or are they just enjoying to play with a toy. These are two different kinds of enjoyment. The first is like playing and destroying a robot our of fun and curiosity. The robot does not feel anything. The latter is taking joy in the suffering of another creature, in forms of animal cruelty and human torture. p0292: "The infant is dependent on his parents for almost everything he needs. The child - the successful child - can leave his parents, at least temporarily ... "

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

The Point of Our Eyes (or, Take Stock)

Audiobook: ~3:58:00 p093

Chapter 7

Kain and Abel: Kain makes bad half-hearted sacrifuces that get rejected. Similar if you do things only half-assed they do not work out.

Chapter 8

p205: Paranoid people, are hyper-alert and hyper-focused. They are attending to non-verbal cues with an intentness never manifest during ordinary human interactions. They make mistakes in interpretation (that's the paranoia) but they are still almost uncanny in their ability to detect mixed motives, judgement and falsehood. You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.