need-response

Anankelogical Principles

Aid your understanding of needs with these universal principles

Anankelogy and its application in need-response grounds itself in these principles. In time, I expect to post an article here about each one. If its in bold and underscored, it’s ready.

Foundational principles
Basic principles
General principles
Pain principles
Conflict principles
Authority principles
Law principles
Love principles

Foundational principles

1. A natural need is an objective fact.

2. An organically prioritized need is an objective fact.

Basic principles

3. All needs exist to serve function.

4. Emotions personally convey needs.

5. Your emotions prioritize your self-continuance.

6. Your feelings alert you to the status of your needs.

7. Beliefs exist to serve needs.

8. You believe what you need to believe.

9. Your biases prioritize your needs.

10. All beliefs include error.

11. All your behaviors serve your needs.

12. Needs resolve and evolve.

13. Needs get queued and then evoked.

General principles

14. There is no good nor bad except for need.

15. Your feelings serve you, or you serve them.

16. Resolved needs improve your understanding.

17. You don’t choose your needs; your needs choose you.

18. Natural needs never clash with each other.

19. All natural needs sit equal before nature.

20. Wellness is psychosocial.

21. Problems persist without solution where needs resist full resolution.

22. The more you generalize, the less of reality you realize.

23. Big changes may seem stronger. But small changes often last longer.

Pain principles

24. There is no such thing as pain apart from unresolved needs.

25. Natural pain is inherently good.

26. Pain is perhaps nature’s least appreciated gift.

27. Pain is not the problem as much as the threats your pain tries to report.

28. Reacting to your pain tends to leave you in more pain.

29. Any unquenchable desire becomes another pain.

30. We typically prefer the pain we feel over the pain we fear.

31. Take the easy course, then life gets hard. Take the hard course, then life gets easy.

32. A life full of comfort is a life not fully lived.

33. A life full of pain is a life filled with too many unmet needs.

Conflict principles

34. We cannot solve our specific problems from the level of generalizing that created them.

35. Opposing what others need does not extinguish moral conflict, but enflames it.

36. A rush to debate usually skips the details that really matter in life.

37. There is less reason to debate when you can vulnerably relate.

38. Violence is weakness turned outward. Resilience is strength turned inward.

39. When violence seems the only answer, quickly rethink the question.

40. Rights and responsibilities depend on each other.

41. The more you offer to ease their needs, the more they seek to ease their pain.

42. The standard applied sets the standard replied.

43. What you reactively resist you reflexively reinforce.

44. Mutual respect resolves more needs than mutual defensiveness.

45. Self-righteousness is a weak savior. Arrogance is no savior at all.

Authority principles

46. You don’t need anyone’s permission to breathe.

47. The more an authority undermines resolving needs, the less its legitimacy.

48. You don’t exist for human authority; human authority exists for you.

49. Power is not really ‘power’ unless resulting in resolved needs.

50. Legitimacy of authority can be lost when imposing a hidden cost.

51. Authority proves less necessary where needs freely resolve.

Law principles

52. While no one sits above the law, no law sits above your natural needs.

53. Our laws do not govern but guide; our needs govern.

54. Our laws do not resolve needs; people do.

55. It is against the grain of law to fully resolve needs.

56. Laws impersonally convey needs.

57. Two wrongs don’t make a right, but sometimes they make a law.

Love principles

58. Your safest generalization is to love.

59. Intellect is overrated where love is underperformed.

60. There is no greater human authority than resolving needs with love.

61. There is no greater revolution than to revolve back to love.

62. Love unleashes our life’s potential.

63. Where your hate loves to see their hurt remain, your love hates to leave either side in pain.

Anankelogy shares 75 principles in all. See the first 63 here. More will follow.

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