The models men world wide strive to live by (religions and their mystical off shoots being in a singular and paramount class by themselves,
in that all others, such as political, nationalistic, social and economic ones address only man’s behavior whereas religion alone takes into account his inner [read: mental] life) always provide thricely thus:
man’s curse, its cure, and the reward,
(that is: an explanation for man’s present condition,
how it can be changed,
and the benefits to be derived therefrom);
in general practice the template looks more or less like this:
first: somewhere in the distant past man offended his creator (god),
who in retaliation either cursed him directly, or else made him available to evil forces (anti gods) for them to do the job;
second: the way to get out from under the curse is to become a follower of,
(blank) religion,
and lastly, the reward  is that in another life after this one,
everything will be perfect (as per your imagination of, perfect).
 

Some version of the above, all minds seek;
by nature men wish to enter a structure; wrap themselves in a cloak;
lose themselves in a grand verbal concept which they can reasonably accept as explaining everything that troubles them in their thoughts.
To varying intensities, all humans possessed of normal consciousness
long for and will seek such a model by which (as appropriate their degree of
innate interest) to measure and attempt to live their lives,
both externally (their actions), and internally (what is in their heart --  their intentions).
All of this being as natural to collective man as the development of agriculture, establishment of cities, creation of literature --
the very civilizing process itself of his intellectualization.
Without a model cap to don  --  men’s minds feel naked  --
exposed, vulnerable, innocent, helpless and incomplete.
Thus it be with perfectly normal, exemplary men,
and for every norm there is an anormaly;
a man born with a slightly different wiring and programming in his frontal lobes, who finds all mental models not only NOT informative and helpful,
but in fact, distracting and detrimental        ---------        but where is such a man to turn?
 

Having abandoned the popular models he is left to adopt some
obscure one to hopefully give him direction into generally unknown inner territory,
and such minority models have always been available,
but the certain man with this certain slant (does he not finally tire of the struggle,
go limp and give in), will gradually, yet eventually realize that,
for his specialized interest & needs --  no model will do (here’s the rule):
The only good model is no model!  --   Yeah!   ............................(okay, let’s clarify that):
the only good model is a model he created,
and the only good model he created is one whose useful life span he recognizes --
(and now another new rule for the advanced certain man):
useful models have a life span so brief that two hundred of them have perished
just in the time it has taken to type this sentence thus far.......................................
 
 

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