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in after World War I. Whatever you may be,
you are not the verbal labels in your passport
any more than you are the word “self.” So
you must be prepared to prove at all times
that you are what you are not. Much of the
force of the reactive mind also depends on
the falsification inherent in the categorical
definite article THE. THE now, THE past,
THE time, THE space, THE energy, THE
matter, THE universe. Definite article THE
contains the implication of no other. THE
universe locks you in THE, and denies the
possibility of any other. If other universes
are possible, then the universe is no longer
THE, it becomes A. The definite article THE
in the proposed language is deleted and re-
placed by A. Many of the RM commands are
in point of fact contradictory commands and
a contradictory command gains its force
from the Aristotelian concept of either/or. To
do everything, to do nothing, to have
everything, to have nothing, to do it all, to do
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