What is lack of integrity? It is making these types of things part of your daily routine: Trying to get out of paying your fair share; trying to take something without asking or paying for it (that’s called stealing); having a vendetta against another person whose done nothing to you, and expressing this vendetta at every opportunity; listening to somebody whom you know is giving you ill advice because you think there’ll be some advantage in that for you; hoarding all that you can, avoiding generosity in the process; adhering to bare principles even if it causes visible, obvious harm to people; trying to make yourself seem more important than others; pushing ahead of other people every chance you get; bumping into line ahead of people who were there first; making a deliberate effort to screw somebody up, just for the fun of it (this includes a lot of hackers without ethics); vandalizing property, just for the fun of it; deliberately aggravating another person or people, just to enjoy and absorb their negative reaction; starting conflicts for the sake of conflict; prolonging conflict when solutions present themselves, i.e. ignoring sensible solutions to end conflict; acting aggressively towards others; TAKING CREDIT for the work of others, trying to shut out other people in the process; lying or deliberately “bending the truth” to suit yourself; keeping information to yourself which would help another or others, for selfish reasons; causing damage to your surroundings or to faraway environments, just to make money; causing damage to other people for your own pleasure; using cocaine or other chemical drugs, or else helping others to use those drugs; deliberately making the life of another person more difficult; blaming other people for your failings and shortcomings and failures and bad luck …
I’m sure that if you are one of the people I’m talking to, you can certainly add to this list – just draw from your own daily life.
What happens to people who have no integrity? Well eventually they always come undone. The more that other people develop and cultivate integrity in their lives, the harder that those without integrity will fall. It’s only a matter of time. The process is speeded up when more people take up integrity around you.
If you are dishonest, a cheat, a liar, or just all round a horrible person (and you know who you are), then other people recoil from you. If you come near other people physically, they automatically stand back from you, taking as much distance as they can. It’s like you stink – you smell bad. People can tell that you’re rotten, there’s a certain aroma about you. Of course, when people recoil from your stench, you are very quick to blame others for this. You pick fights with strangers, both online and offline. You yell at strangers on the street for getting in your way. You are always worried about money, finances, resources, no matter how much you have. You always worry about losing everything you have (with very good reason – because eventually, YOU WILL). You don’t know what “peace” feels like. You are living an inner war, which manifests itself in the war-like way you live your life and interact with others.
You sign a contract and then do the opposite of what you promised, because you don’t know any better. You tend not to see the good in people – instead you see the bad. If you hear negative gossip about somebody, you instantly believe that it’s true, because you wrongly believe that everybody except you, sucks. You are running your life according to some secret plan which was given to you by another person. You are therefore constantly scared of giving up too much information. You smile at other people when you are really thinking, “what assholes”. You rarely say “thank you” or “I’m sorry”, if ever at all. You assume that other people are in your service, whether they know it/ like it or not.
You wake up each day feeling worried, stressed out, and nervous – or else just completely numb, feeling nothing. You see things like African child brides, or refugees, and you just shrug and feel nothing for them, thinking “What a bunch of losers”. You own guns. You are willing to fuck up another person’s life, for money. Anything for some money.
What a terrible life you lead, and that’s all at your hands. Because of your complete lack of integrity, you are living in misery and everybody around you is infected by your misery. Children cry in your presence. Animals run away from you. Babies scream when they look at you.
Get it, do you recognize yourselves now?
