THE WORLD’S ONLY TRUTHFUL RESPONSE:

                   “I DON’T KNOW.”
 
 
 

Man is a creature-of-mind;
mind wants to know;
men want to know;
men want to appear to know;
men are made to pretend that they do know,
and under certain conditions, men want to believe that other men, pretending to know --  actually do know,
                                       but 
when it comes to any matter that you cannot touch,
everything that humanity collectively knows about it
is only truthfully stated in the three words: 

                               “I don’t know.”
 
 
 

What mind calls knowing --  it knows to be otherwise,
after all: it invented the whole concept of knowing.
Mind knows that it makes up --  and HAS to make up – everything man thinks about that is intangible;
                                        ergo, 
          mind knows that everything man knows 
                  about everything it made up 
                              is itself --  made up.
 
 
 
 

Mind knows all of this -- 
but in routine men  --   it is ignored.
For man’s continued, needed interest, 
and participation in non material activities,
he must pretend to not know the reality of 
what is going on.
 

Thus, do all men lie --  when,
regardless of their intention, or awareness,
they say that they know anything about ANYTHING that cannot be physically handled.
‘Tis only by an unspoken, life-imposed, 
conspiratorial agreement 
that men collectively pretend to not know this. 
 
 

You cannot lie about something that does not 
physically exist;
your “lie,” (about whatever it is),
simply becomes a new feature of its pretend-reality.

        This is the only way an imaginary world can grow.
 
 
 

To properly fit into the collective-of-humanity
there are several rules you must follow:
you must --   want to know,
and you must say that non material matters that 
men can think about have a real existence, and can be known about with varying degrees of accuracy;
you must say that you do know some things, 
and want to know more,
and you must say that the things you do know about --- you know about accurately,
and that anything anyone else says that they know about the same subject that does not agree with your knowing of it --  is a knowing on their part that is
incorrect and invalid. 
All in all: to be a player 
you must pretend to believe that the 
knowing men say they can have about things that they can only talk about, but never touch,
is a knowing that itself, is real and substantial.
 
 

You can’t merely agree that Santa Clause exists -- 
you must insist that all tellings of his story 
be done with a strict fidelity to the facts of his life. 
 
 
 

A man who wants to see and understand more than obviously do, the rest of the herd,
need but remove his thinking from this 
mass game of make believe.
If you are, to-this-thing-born,
with but slight effort you can recognize that the increasingly ubiquitous & collectively important world of non material matters that so hold man’s attention 
is entirely a realm of make believe, 
and thus as concerns it --  there is nothing TO know --
      --  other than the plain & simple fact that 
          the whole thing is a secretly agreed-on,
           silent conspiracy to pretend otherwise.
 
 
 
 
 

Those who want the understanding
but who have yet to taste it,
think that having it fills a man to the brink with 
knowledge --  secret, special, extraordinary, metaphysical, mysterious knowledge about everything.

Do you know that a rock is a rock?
Do you know where Santa Clause was born?
If you understand what the only truthful responses to
those two questions are --  and you could stop pretending later that you do not  -- 
                   --   you have the understanding
(it would simply need a period of aging in your barrel
to stabilize and become permanent.)
 

If for some reason, a man with the understanding
were to momentarily weaken, and give a response, 
his only one would ever be:
                             “I don’t know”  --
 

              the world's only truthful response;

           the four words that define -  Liberation.
                             
 
                                        Finally --

      freedom from a captivity of meaningless pretense.

                                          J