JAN’S DAILY FRESH REAL NEWS
                   © 2001: Jan Cox

   
                         THOSE WHO CAN   ---  THINK;
          THOSE WHO CAN’T --  TALK ABOUT THEIR LIFE.
                  (Do You Spend Quality Time With Yourself, Or
                               Are You Just A Snake Bait Date?)
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Thinking about other people’s ideas is not thinking.
 
 
 
 
 

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Thinking is not doing, and doing does not require thinking. 
 
 
 
 
 

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Heeding anything save the sound of tomorrow 
is listening to the voices of the dead.
 
 
 
 
 

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If men were not given to self criticism,
the civilized could not prove that they are.
 
 
 
 
 

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Men with small minds often have the largest stories to tell.
 
 
 
 

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A man with a serious philosophy-of-life has fulfilled at least 
50% of his normal intellectual requirements ……
…..or else is half dead…….according to how you look at it.
 
 
 
 

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All children can be made more mature by being made 
more serious…
...which depends solely on which of their toys you break…
    ...same as with grown ups.
 
 
 
 
 

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A man who actually knows how to think,
                                doesn’t care what others think.
 
 
 
 
 

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Within a herd, all sane/acceptable thought sounds 
                             remarkably moo-like.
 
 
 
 
 

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Being: aligned, committed, dedicated to a philosophy
is death-by-gradual-strangulation.
 
 
 
 
 
 

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The distinction between being sad and being stupid is 
                  super subtle...................(if that).
 
 
 
 
 

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One prisoner’s offering of moral advice to another prisoner
is one of confinement’s small pleasures.
 
 
 
 
 

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Once you recognize the nature of you & other humans ,
there is no further need for self criticism  --
                       ... it has already been well taken care of.
 
 
 
 
 
 

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A man with an independent mind has a loaded gun  --
         -- and no one to frighten with it.
 
 
 
 
 

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The collective minds of ordinary humanity 
will follow any plan that promises the impossible.
 
 
 
 
 

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Acting blind & stupid in the presence of the rest of humanity 
                 is the sincerest form of flattery.
 
 
 
 
 

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If you do Thing-X,
and add to it, thinking-about-doing-it,
the product is not: “Doing-thing-X, plus  thinking-about-it,”
but a third thing entirely,
(which men normally overlook.... since it often results in “Progress”).
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Beyond physique: there is no “self improvement” 
other than achieving intellectual independence.
 
 
 
 
 

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Update: Acting stupidly is the most flattering form of imitation.
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Okay, another expansion: The ultimate in “self improvement” would be the total abandonment of the whole deal.

                        “I wash my hands of my hands.”
 
 
 
 
 

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He who knows what is going on is the secret class clown.
 
 
 
 
 

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If the body could talk,
in most people, 
what it would say to the mind is not fit to repeat. 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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      Water continually circulating thru their gills keeps fish alive;
                    constant self-reference does a similar job 
                          with routine men’s sense-of-a-self.
 
 
 
 
 

              (Have you given yourself your daily reminder that 
               everything being said here, [behind the symbolism],
               is talking about things that go on in your head.)
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Farmers most in doubt regarding the freshness of their produce are 
the first to push it as  being organic.
   (All myopia & stupidity are “home grown”  --
……if that’s of any consolation…….as opposed to:
”Who knows where that secret door is that let men into this universe to begin with?”)
 

As hormones get old they get weak;
as neurons do, they go berserk.
(P.S. They can get old at any early age.)
 
 
 
 
 

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Telling other people what kind of person you are 
is a prisoner explaining that stripes are actually checks.
 
 
 
 
 

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Remember that the motto: “The past sucks!” was not coined yesterday.
(Remember also that:  All real trains run on real time,
and all real-time-trains run over the toes of mere spectators-by-the-tracks.
He who expects to gain The Understanding some day soon 
might as well go ahead, and expand the slogan to read: 
“The future also sucks!........ and leaves much to be desired.”

So where doeth that leaveth thou, Horatio?!
 
 

                              Time: Love it, or leave it.
 

                                                 J