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

To his favorite son, a father bequeathed a special prize:  a box -- 
                                     --  which was empty. 
 

After a life time of bewilderment, frustration & irritation, 
the boy still never realized that the box was the prize.
 
 
 
 
 
 

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The Pretender-Prince-of-The-World, 
(actually a figurehead for six billion would-be pretenders), 
filled his lungs to capacity and loudly declared:
”All is in chaos!...….....or else my glasses are fogged up again.”

      (Perhaps there is a modicum of hope concerning the civilians.)
 
 
 
 
 

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Why the herd's high regard for actors? 

We used to be mostly hormones, but neurons are catching up --  fast! 

Hormones originally directed all our acts,
now neurons have taken up script writing.

           (“Hey, who’s watching the box office?")
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Men cannot tolerate a person who knows everything  --  unless --
                                     he brags about it.

  No amount of advertising will ever sell caviar in the ghetto,
  or madd dogg at the ritz.
  To “be right” you have to be both: on time – and at the right place.

  Fact: for one of life’s little particulars,
  there is no such right time & place.
  …not out there there’s not.
 

    To be famous is to be talked about by people you wouldn’t  want to talk to.
 

Once you realize where you really live, 
you can be well known & famous in your own home town  --   but 
                                    not in your own head.
 
 
 
 
 
 

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One reason for the various unbelievable ideas man has proposed, 
(such as life after death), 
is that the very reality that we have ideas is SOOO unbelievable in itself, that men keep trying to top it.
 
 
 
 
 
 

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One mystic stopped saying that people are “asleep, or unenlightened” and says instead that: “Some people have complaints with their brain,”
     (and lets it go at that).
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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When the father walked into his son’s room the younger looked up from the liner notes he was reading, turned down the music a bit, and to his pater said: “What double fun it is to sit here listening to Mozart’s C Minor Mass, and at the same time, read about his life," 
to which the elder responded: 
“But looked at another way, you cheat yourself by half 
in that neither the music, nor the writing gets your full attention.” 
 

The lad considered this for a moment, then exclaimed: “You’re right! What a continually surprising implement the mind be, 
for even when it  may appear to be increasing in its efforts, 
it can actually be simultaneously cutting back. 
Just think what a chopped salad it must be constantly making of 
my attempts at plain, straight-ahead thinking."
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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(By the by, even though 48 hours have passed since the subject was broached, you haven't already forgotten that 
the second most common use for talk is in trying to 
make what you’re doing seem more important than it is; 
the first being in trying to make YOU seem more important than you are.

In your talking-about a thing, 
the thing is made to sound more challenging and complex --  and tiring, than it actually is.

   “Now let’s all join hands, ears, feet, [or something], and sing: 
             ‘Oh  --  men may come  --   and 
                         men may go  ------   but
                         words go on forever…….....for 
                         ever    --     fuckin’    --    ever!’”)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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                           Hormones’ll make you happy,
                           hormones’ll make you sad,
                           but only neurons will,
                           make you think about it. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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‘Tis been said: “That evil is half cured, whose cause we know,”
but with the matter of ignorance, that be not so.
There is no half awareness of what is going on:
you are either swimming, or else you already drowned, 
twenty years before last Thursday.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

There is no advance fear of being asleep; 
and no contemporaneous complaint when you are asleep;
there is only  the annoyance you feel after catching yourself at it.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Everyone admits to recognizing results,
but all claim ignorance of causes. 

                       What a bunch of kidders!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Man’s collective mind never acts as a direct conduit for 
liberating information  --   it cannot  --
                          it would burn up its wiring.
 
 
 
 
 
 

Being Enlightened is not being broad minded, or even open minded; 
it is being minded minded......................   then finally,
                          no particularly minded at all.
 

 No snake has succeeded in swallowing itself until 
there is nothing left of him  to see….like having an Enlightened Mind:
nothing left to think about but thinking itself.

                  (Nothing left to reminisce about except 
              the old days back when you use to reminisce.) 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

The safest, sanest statement ever uttered by man is: “In God we rest our fate,”
      (although instead of, God, could have been used: Water, Springtime,
                 cloud formations, truffles.....)
 
 
 
 
 

                                                 J
 
 
 
 
 

“Hey, Pa, a kid at school said that the worst thing that will happen to me is that I’ll die.”
  “I told you not to play with imbeciles.”