If you're older than 30, knowing what you know now - knowing how huge of a difference there is between the person you were at 20 - between that and 25 - and then between that to 30... Who in their right mind would ever disagree with the age-old wisdom that before this stage of mental and physical ripeness is reached - the third and magical number of 30, no young man or woman should ever be granted access to directing or influencing matters of: - Politics - Spirituality - Philosophy - Law In any meaningful shape or form. Ideation, sure. Present new concepts, why not? Philosophizing among friends - be my guest. But for the degenerate youth (and all youth are degenerate, one way or another) to be so freely gifted the keys to the king's chamber - is a disservice to their highest potentials - and a trick designed to swarm and overwhelm the political and spiritual arenas with highly impressionable, easily wowed masses with near-infinite energy and drive. Time must be respected - and there is a time for everything. The decade between 20 and 30 is for conquering, primarily for the conquering of the self - as the decade between 10 and 20 is for discovery, primarily self-discovery. These are years of passion, development, emotional drive - and the best time to stay busy with the physical aspects of life, poetry, art, music, adventure and dance. This is why, even for the greatest of kings and the most royal of rulers... there were assigned mentors. When a young man speaks with confidence - it is not his own confidence he speaks with, be sure of that. It is a confidence allowed to him by someone or something, whose ideologies they feel obligated or bribed to commit and subscribe to. There is no substance, no true experience, no real battle scars behind his words - but blind delusion and ignorance. The greatest manipulators aim specifically for the youth for this reason. Take me for example, I would have probably been considered an incredibly open-minded, intellectual, wise-for-my-age type of youth, but I would never even think to take the 22 year old version of myself seriously in any field of sophistication. Knowing what I know now - it would have been pure degeneracy to have done so. I would have burnt whole kingdoms down with my incompetence. And so would you, if you're not careful - if you don't learn to keep yourself on a very tight leash from early on, especially in this day and age. The wizened youth of today humbles himself before father time steps in and does it for him - because we all know how that usually goes. What you do now in your 20s, you might think it's the correct way to be living, you might even be convinced that you're doing the right moves right now - but in your 30s, most of your behaviors and actions you will grow to regret. How you handled situations with loved ones - you will regret some of these. How you handled family crises - you will regret that too. How you handled women, secrets - regret. How you handled your enemies - you will live to regret those, make no mistake. Some fully, others partially, some not at all (be proud of these) - but mostly, you will cringe at who you were and what forces you served, inadvertently or not. And that's even only if you live to survive the formative years of your self-view, if you don't become enslaved by your false self-empowerment and start living in denial. That's only if you allow yourself to gather enough wisdom, experience and true gnosis, through personal adventure - to initiate yourself into the higher mysteries. So before you decide to become a guru of life, first wait until life has thrown every twist and turn at you - the exact ones you don't even know you're underestimating - come out of that dark night of the soul relatively alive and well - and then the time for greater thoughts will come. You need to earn your spot at the campfire. And the first 30 years are bringing deadwood to keep the fire going. ![[717FA509-CA69-4ADD-90A1-3B51F5DAF5C0.gif]]