"I don't think you're supposed to do even that, at this point.  You are working to somebody else's plan and they have, if not prophecy, then something like a last shattered fragment of it."

"And Sevar.  Trying to be predictable on purpose can make you less predictable to our Lord, or even to me, because most people are not trying to be predictable when they make decisions, just deciding them, and if you are new to the work you will make new entertaining errors in what it means to be predictable, which I will not have time to correct, and the whole way in which it is one more thing you are trying to do, tinkering and steering the way in which you imagine your thought processes should work -"

"...I don't suppose I'm making any sense to you at all, yet.  I pray that it is 'yet' and not 'never'.  You have no idea how much I am praying for it.  Meanwhile, please don't try to do any incredibly complicated new things inside your mind, in order to make yourself more predictable, is that a simple enough instruction for you to understand?"

"I don't think you're supposed to do even that, at this point.  You are working to somebody else's plan and they have, if not prophecy, then something like a last shattered fragment of it."

"And Sevar.  Trying to be predictable on purpose can make you less predictable to our Lord, or even to me, because most people are not trying to be predictable when they make decisions, just deciding them, and if you are new to the work you will make new entertaining errors in what it means to be predictable, which I will not have time to correct, and the whole way in which it is one more thing you are trying to do, tinkering and steering the way in which you imagine your thought processes should work -"

"...I don't suppose I'm making any sense to you at all, yet.  I pray that it is 'yet' and not 'ever'.  You have no idea how much I am praying for it.  Meanwhile, please don't try to do any incredibly complicated new things inside your mind, in order to make yourself more predictable, is that a simple enough instruction for you to understand?"

"I don't think you're supposed to do even that, at this point.  You are working to somebody else's plan and they have, if not prophecy, then something like a last shattered fragment of it."

"And Sevar.  Trying to be predictable on purpose can make you less predictable to our Lord, or even to me, because most people are not trying to be predictable when they make decisions, just deciding them.  Thinking like that makes you less like most of the mortals our Lord has observed before.  And if you are new to the work you will make new entertaining errors in what it means to be predictable, which I will not have time to correct.  Or the whole way in which it is one more thing you are trying to do, tinkering and steering the way in which you imagine your thought processes should work, complicates those processes in a way that, again, our Lord may find harder to understand -"

"I don't suppose I'm making any sense to you at all, yet.  I pray that it is 'yet' and not 'ever'.  You have no idea how much I am praying for it.  Meanwhile, please don't try to do any incredibly complicated new things inside your mind, in order to make yourself more predictable, is that a simple enough instruction for you to understand?"

"I don't think you're supposed to do even that, at this point.  You are working to somebody else's plan and they have, if not prophecy, then something like a last shattered fragment of it."

"And Sevar.  Trying to be predictable on purpose can make you less predictable to our Lord, or even to me, because most people are not trying to be predictable when they make decisions, just deciding them.  Thinking like that makes you less like most of the mortals our Lord has observed before.  And if you are new to the work you will make new entertaining errors in what it means to be predictable, which I will not have time to correct.  Or the whole way in which it is one more thing you are trying to do, tinkering and steering the way in which you imagine your thought processes should work, complicates those processes in a way that, again, our Lord may find harder to understand -"

"I don't suppose I'm making any sense to you at all, yet.  I pray that it is 'yet' and not 'ever'.  You have no idea how much I am praying for it.  Meanwhile, don't try to do any incredibly complicated new things inside your mind, in order to make yourself more predictable, is that a simple enough instruction for you to understand?"