Personal Note XLVII

Yahweh in (יהוה‎):
Moses and the Burning Bush

Routines |
Thursday – May 28, 2026

Having written about Habits recently, I felt that writing about routines would be too soon, but I have come to the conclusion that I need to make it clear that habits and routines in and of themselves are quite neutral, for it is the application of routine and habit that really can be harmful, and I recognize as well as the moderns, particularly the psychoanalysts, that without structure nothing can really function; again allow me to make it clear that I do not oppose structure, but I do question modern structure and what I, as well as most scholars, view as an inverted hierarchical order. Besides, it would also be quite true that life in the most corporeal sense would be impossible without routine and habit, because mechanism requires predictability and a kind of quantitative assortment of time, read "How to Deal with Time", so that leaps in one direction or another can be made, really so that the whole story can be told in a manner satisfactory to the political narrative and to the narrative of modern historians; not that political indoctrination and history in the modern sense tend to differ too much, but I still regard them as distinct enough and therefore requiring some kind of easy delineation, surely for practical reasons if nothing else. Routines and habits are also not quite the same thing, and I would argue that routines tend to be of a more qualified nature, whereas habits rather happens to you, and the psychoanalytical school would of course argue that habits are a result of your "subconscious" will, or your shadow, and to that extend I am willing to agree, but for entirely different reasons, read "What are Demons?".

    Essentially, it is true that habits happens to you and that routines are sought after and created, mostly to sort time in a manner that aligns with your overall goals or intentions, and further since we are dealing with the future here it would also be true that there are different kinds of routines, some better than others, or rather some routines are quite clearly and frankly superior to other routines, and there is no hard line between habit and routine, other than the clear difference of intend vs. impulse, but we are still dealing with a kind of continuum here similar very much to that continuum that exits between the essential and the substantive and between technique and mechanism, read "Hierarchy", although I must add that routines in and of themselves are, as mentioned above, still overall something quite neutral, and in this sense let us leave the world of metaphysics behind as I struggle to find anything sacred as "sacred" pertains to routines; it is rather the case that routines can be thought of as a kind of deviation of the supra-individual order but still closer to that said order than the storied history of peoples many habits, and again it does ring true that habits just tend to "happen" to people, read "Addiction". So it would be true to say that when you are governed by habits, as opposed to routines, you are closer to something animalistic and quite brutish, really the beast and this can be sensed by most people, and this is why the colloquialism of "bad habits" exists, while "bad routines" is far less heard of and when people used the term "bad routines" they still tend to fall back on the seeming default, namely bad habits. Of course, while on the subject of habits and addiction: the difference between a bad habit and an addiction is much smaller, but I will say that addictions are always, almost always at any rate, a for of addiction when you think about it, while many things that could constitute a bad habit, really habits in general, may not necessarily be considered addiction; these are small but nuanced differences, but the small and seemingly petty in life does matter once the story has been written, another insight pertaining to the essential side of life, read also "Beauty". Again to clarify, just because routines are mostly neutral this alone does not make them good, and again routines are artifacts of a kind of mechanism, because the entire point of creating and holding a routine is to mechanize your life, but it seems necessary, to a certain extend at least, to sort your life and create structure in your life, and besides without structure life does become unbearable rather quickly and would actually require you to become an animal and completely leave any and all aspects of humanity behind; really what routines do is to govern your life, and that is not good nor is it bad – it is simply neutral. Why do people get offended when a man cannot act according to proper social expectations? Actually, mostly because he lacks routine or routine familiar to that society and this makes him unpredictable and potentially dangerous. Also, my personal point of view is certainly that there is no difference between "bad habits" and habits in general; whenever you are not in control be sure that someone or something is in control, for the principle must be moved by someone, and if you are not the mover then someone is moving you for whatever reason, read "Politicians".

    All of these points aside, what are my personal reasons for writing about routines? Well, as I stated above: I still feel the need to clarify certain things about habits, and this is why it is necessary for me to write about routines; time is never out for clarification, but I should then clarify further that my whole point of clarification has nothing to do with mechanism or the mechanism of some kind of false creativity, not that creativity without structure would amount to anything creative. Really, my personal observations is that creativity and beauty and really the essential requires a guiding hand, and without that guiding hand, read "Who or What is God?", there could be no life; really without structure there would be no container to contain the essential. Yes, routines belong to the substantive but this, again, does not make them bad; besides the essential while being superior still requires substance, because they complement each other. What would the masterpiece be without the guiding knowledge of the truly qualified artisan? The same can be asked about any aspect of the world and you will find no answer, for the answer properly belongs outside the manifested world, even in our deviated times. Of course, I can mention my own life, read "Who Am I?", in this connection and I must admit that the process of writing these posts, even though I continue to assert divine inspiration, would be impossible, and even if I would still receive divine instruction and inspiration without the strength, corporeal and powerful though it is, of direction I would simply wither away in my writing without this corporeal strength, read "Discipline". While my writing is real and requires some certain amount of strength, the primary purpose of this strength, call it routine, is to direct my mission on Earth towards the summit of the mountain – towards the light of the remote future. Indeed, this is the purpose of routine; neutral though it may be on its own, routine is necessary in life, with or without the divine.

Reginald Drax – May 28, 2026.