Self Freedom: Hood Life: (Unedited): 10 Sept 2016:

Freedom from your enslaved mindset begins with your first self inspired thought being realized. 

C.J.MacKechnie

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As soon as you realize that you are capable of creative thinking without outside control or restraint. Everything about your present and future shall change if you continue to be brave and to prove your courage of self existence. Your right to exist and your right to freely think is all yours. Unless to give it all away or allow it to be squelched and controlled. Sometimes you just have to stand up even if it is for the last time.
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Freedom is gained when you put into action your self inspired thoughts into realized self empowerment. 

C.J.MacKechnie

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Enslavement shall never be possible for anyone who is self realized, self inspired and self empowered.

C.J.MacKechnie

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Enslavement begins with the control over the thoughts of your own mind. A slave is not free thinking. Which is why,

The majority of young people who have lived the hood life take the mentality of the hood life with them when seeking a better life away from the dangers of hood life.

C.J.MacKechnie

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Hood life is a very dangerous trap. Down here in Florida. Transplanted hoodlums who did their very best to escape the dangerous traps of the hood life. Brought the traps with them. I hear parents all of the time say how good their children are and then are repeatedly arrested. The parents who fled the hood from where ever they came from. Brought the hood mentality with them. What do you think is going to happen when your kids lie and steal and continue to lie and deny? Where did your good kids learn this? By your permission. When you say your children are good. You do not mean good in the Biblical sense. You mean just good at being bad. Then when your children whom you rescued from those bad people up in the northern hood. Only go to school to socialize and to eat food. What do you think will become of your adult children as you declare the educational system failed in their education. This is a lie. It wasn't the educational system that failed to educated your children. It was you who failed to express the importance of education to your children. This is why your children will be worse off than you. I'm just a janitor who became one at 49 Years of age. Do you really think a 49 year old becomes a minimum wage janitor because they made the right decisions in life? Or a minimum wage stock person in a retail store? or in my case both?

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The laws and traditions of the world which declare you as a servant, slave or a lesser human being. Becomes worthless when you are self realized, self inspired and self empowered. 

C.J.MacKechnie

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You are a human being. Your value as a human being can only be made by you and agreed upon by you. This goes in the same line as how I believed as a young person that I was dumb, stupid and retarded. After all I had an IQ of about 70. I knew my value as a human being and I wasn't worth educating. I new my value as an adopted member of a family. The words of my adoptive mother still ring in my head at times and even now as I write this. "We should have never adopted you". So I knew I was not worthy of love or acceptance. I can go on and on with my own negative memories as I can self torture myself with them. Foster Care in two states and the various abuses I had to endure.

Even though I write poorly and speak even worse. That my message still gets out. So as long as you my readers only take the positive messages out of what I write. It is all your free choice to take what you do.    

Yes, yes, Listen to the words of this song. Feel it and then choose to change you. You are truly awesomely beautiful and of great value. You are a divine creation of the God of Love.

https://youtu.be/1vh7-RSPuAA

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Past Deep: (Unedited): 30 Oct 2015:

Truthful and deep, intangible wisdom, knowledge and understanding come to those souls who have gone past their own mentality and physicality to truly know what is not there. 

C.J.MacKechnie

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Wisdom and understanding can easily come from watching those around you. What to do and what not to do. Especially, the what not to do. You know watch some of those YouTube videos of people doing stupid things. Watching those whom you consider to be successful and then copying their actions. So that you can have similar gains. You can also learn much more from your own failures than you can from success. Think about that one for a moment. Who was that inventor that invented the everlasting candle after more than a thousand failures. Now we have LED light Bulbs.
These kinds of wisdom, knowledge and understand is only the tip of the ice berg. To what is really underneath the water. That point of division between the ice, the water and the air. One you cannot see but can feel if something wrong happens to the air.
To go really deep in your own journey to find new wisdom, knowledge and understanding. You must become blind, deaf, helpless, breathless, without senses and unfeeling. All of your fears, anxieties and psychological boxes must be released, opened or disappeared. Almost to the point that even your own physical body no longer matters any more.
Then after you free yourself from all of physicality. You can then begin a new journey into those deeply profound intangible things. 
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Notes:
-As I'm writing this. It always seemed to me that the wisest of the wise always seemed to be weakly thin. I wonder if that is some kind of clue. But, then you have that fat Buddha. The reader needs to know. I'm 5-10 inches and weigh 230 pounds. I'm not comparing myself to the wisdom of Buddha, only our common rotundness.
- I am not implying anywhere that you must die, to seek physical death or to continually flirt with death by any possibility. Nor am I implying that you must harm yourself in any way. I also, do not agree in anyway the use of any mind altering substances of any kind. No matter their legality or how they are prescribed for medical uses. 

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Go and sin no more.

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To avert all of the coming bad and sad prophecies. We each must decide to do the following everyday, every hour, every minute and every second.

To Love one another.

To live in peace with everyone.

To exist in harmony with all.

To Cherish all life.

To be obedient to the Laws of God.

To become righteous and holy by the accepting eyes of God only.

All without any pride, ego, arrogance, supremacy and entitlements.
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Hopeless Gait: (Unedited): 26 July 2013:

The slow gait of the hopeless is without purpose or importance. C.J.MacKechnie

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The hopeless and helpless people all seem to have similar walking gait. Even those who are apathetic in what they do have similar walking gaits. What does this mean. Well, find your crowded area and observe people walking. Almost immediately you will see a variety of people walking. Depending where you are and what time of day. You will witness various kinds of walking people.
LEAVING WORK:         Yea, people who actually want to go home will have that quick gait out to their car.

SPORTING EVENTS:    The walking gait to their seats to watch their team win. The walking gait leaving the sports
                                          When their team loses.

PUBLIC SCHOOL:         The walking gait of those who just do not care about school or even life.

ON THE JOB:                  The slow walk and slow physical movements of people who do not care anything about
                                           the job they are doing. They are only physically present and will do nothing on their
                                           own. They are existing in a slave mentality without even being aware of it. Their
                                           attitude is apathetic. That apathetic attitude will absolutely cause *you to lose
                                           business/income. (*you means business owner or corporate manager).

AT HOME:                   The depressed state of a person who has no hope in life and is helpless in all that they do.
                                       All of this can be witnessed by the observation of their physical walking gait. You can
                                       see this is very low income neighborhoods in the USA.

SHOPPING MALLS:        The gait of women who want to go shopping is different than the mens who they are
                                           literally dragging around. The young men walking behind the young women. Those
                                            who are returning items for exchange or refund. The men who need that specific
                                            tool from Sears. The excited gait of people making that big purchase.

LATE PAYMENT UTILITY BILL:  That purposeful going out of your way gait. To pay the bill and get it over
                                                            with.

LAW ENFORCEMENT GAIT:       The walk of authority and purpose.  Almost a military march. Unless of
                                                            course he/she was former military.

When observing people you must consider physical disabilities and the potential oddness in their walking gait. It is also important to note a disabled persons courage and bravery as they go forth out in public and face the cruelty of normal people, just like you and me. Just remember you are just an accident or war zone away from a disability. 
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Suicide drill: (Unedited): 25 Feb 2013:

In Basketball there is a conditioning drill called a suicide. The word suicide in this explanation is not a negative term or a word used to mean self death. For this blog post, The word suicide is that descriptive word which can mean anything as defined by you. A Suicide Drill exercise for you can be that thing which must be done in order for you to achieve a particular goal.
When a basketball player correctly does the Suicide Drill exercise. He or she will feel like they are about to die and that their coach wants them to die. This is of course far from the truth. The coach wants you to break through your own self created limitations and to exceed your own low level goals and personal expectations.
The Suicide Drill is necessary and crucial for your growth and positive development. The person who does the Suicide drills on their own time and at their personal level of personal conquest. That person will achieve a greater break through in that specific area of interest. Than the person who halfheartedly does a Suicide Drill while complaining under their own breath.
So, what is a suicide drill? Watch the YouTube basketball videos as provided below. Know this, to merely watch as opposed to experiencing a suicide drill as commanded by an evile coach is not the same. (I recommend watching the movie "Coach Carter" and focusing on the Coach and the lessons he is trying to teach). It is more than Basketball. The life lessons learned in Basketball and other sports is greater than the sport itself. The value of which cannot be calculated. So as long as respect, integrity and honor is taught.

The word use of "evile" is an attempt at humor. That is until the coach forces you to do more Suicide Drills (More Humor).

The suicide drill and KungFu is closely related to one another. Even if your specific area of interest is not Basketball. Your suicide drill is a fundamental part of your Kung Fu. The word Kung Fu is not tied to any specific Martial Art at least here in this blog post.
Your Kung Fu is your police officer badge, Your fire fighter uniform, Your medical doctor PHD, your retail store of employment, your welding shop, or your captain of a great ship. No matter your field of interest, it is your KungFu.
The suicide drills which you must do in your KungFu is directly related to your specific area of interest. The suicide drills is your homework which must be done in that class which you see no value or purpose in. The suicide drills for the military man, lawman can be Martial Arts, firearm training and memorizing laws, SunTzu and boring theories of strategy.

The Suicide drills that you do is going to be uncomfortable for you and very challenging. Even to the point where you decide that quitting is a very real option. Which quitting is never an option unless you desire for your future to become a quitter and consider yourself as a quitter. Yes, This is a part of the hero or zero mentality. In which many psycho-ologists believe to be an error of thinking. It is not an error of thinking it is a driving force in the area of achievement. Which must be coupled with Honor, Integrity and Respect.
Your greatest achievements in life will come when your are the most stressed, uncomfortable and that which you are doing doesn't seem possible for you. The thing that you which you consider as impossible is impossible. That is until your thinking and belief systems changes into "I'm Possible".

I also recommend watching the Movie "Rudy". Keep focused on his life. Walking into an unknown and homelessness. keeping focused on the goal, even after continued rejection after rejection. Even when he gave up he still could not.
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http://youtu.be/MPL487ToJt8
http://youtu.be/eEfi572y-xw
https://www.youtube.com/movie?v=b1fFdQe_58U&feature=mv_sr
https://www.youtube.com/movie?v=M5e8oPy7J2M&feature=mv_sr
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http://www.basketball-tips-and-training.com/top-basketball-exercises.html
http://www.basketball-plays-and-tips.com/basketball-conditioning-drills.html
http://www.basketballcoach.com/cgi-bin/basketball/basketball-drills/dc/Suicide-273.html
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung_fu_%28term%29

The practice of Kung Fu in your life. Is that specific work that you earnestly do everyday in order to achieve mastery as defined by you. 
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_tzu

Knot Understood: (Unedited): 19 Feb 2013:

A good thing which is knot understood, does not automatically become bad. C.J.MacKechnie

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Have you ever looked at a good piece of rope, long power cord, Fishing line and etc, Which some how had magically become all tangled and tied in knots. The tangles and knots does not automatically make it bad.
Once you dedicate time and energy in objectively and logically untangling and loosing the knots. You feel a victory. You fixed and solved the problem. The rope, cord or line is now in it's intended usable condition.
This is the same mentality one should have in learning a new thing or understanding a gift which cannot be physically explained with Earthly reason.
Sometimes the knots in our lives has their own specific reason. A knot can hold down, hold tight and graft. Learning about the knots in the real physical world can go a long way in explaining those things which aren't.
Especially, with questions in regards to the Christ gifts. 
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grafting