June 22,
2001.
There is a certain game, (the
only game acceptable to some),
which cannot be played on anyone
else’s field,
yet all men play a version of
the game,
and without exception, do so
on one another’s turf;
under such conditions – victory
is not possible….for anyone.
There is a certain research that
cannot be pursued in
anyone else’s lab;
all men engage in a version
of it,
but do so consistently in one
another’s facilities;
under these conditions, nothing
of value can ever be discovered.
There is that certain --
search-for-The-Truth;
and it cannot be carried
out in the public arena;
it can only be successfully
prosecuted in private.
Man lives under a blanket sensation
that says just the contrary;
this impression is the anti,
search-for-the-truth.
What passes among ordinary men
for, “original thinking”
is commenting, favorably or
otherwise on someone else’s thinking;
accepted wisdom says that the
truth can only be discovered through
the give & take of passionate
debate;
from the honest confrontation
between the hammer & the anvil;
that The Truth will eventually
arise from the push & shove of
competing ideas as to just what
is -- “The
Truth.”
This makes perfect, and rational
sense to man’s thinking,
and seems to establish the inescapable
basis for all intellectual
progress, and certainly for
the ultimate discovery of the great & elusive -- Truth.
In their hunger & search
for the, supreme-reality-of-things,
men pay much lip attention to
the need for, ”original thinking,”
and will point to improvements
in technology as always
being dependent on such;
but their I.Q.’s are instantly
lowered, and they rendered myopic
as soon as they turn their attention
to matters which
no inventor can set on a work
bench.
But the fact is that the type
of men who want to know, The Truth
–
have no real interest, or regard
for such activity;
they will avail themselves of
the benefits of science & technology,
which always come about due
to some new understanding of
the truth
about the materials that make up the physical
world,
but they do not consider such
achievements as being on a level with their search for the metaphysical-truth….which
would be okay --
.................except for
one detail.
Seekers of The Truth are
not amiss in their assessment that,
“original thinking” is required
for success in their search,
for if the current thinking
was going to lead to The Truth,
it would have already done so
--- so:
obviously what is needed is,
“original thinking”
to correct the errors in that
which is presently available.
If you attempt to correct the
flaws in someone else’s thinking
you do nothing but reveal yourself
to be a fool,
with a phantom hunger for The
Truth.
The truth about what is going
on in life & in you will not be discovered
from your passionate mental,
head-butting with other people
on the playing field of debate
& discussion,
nor can any idea that came
from ordinary human thinking ever be: straightened-out, modified, expanded,
or in any way, corrected to
such a degree as to finally
lead to, The-Truth-About-Things.
As long as your thinking does
battle with other men’s thinking
you are not playing on your
own field;
not researching in your own
lab,
nor studying in your own classroom,
and without doing so, you are
eternally doomed to only:
getting dirty, bruised, and
discouraged,
because on any
of the mental playing fields normally available to man
success is not the goal, nor
purpose;
the purpose of the game is to
keep the game going --
not for some player to win!
What are you -- nuts?!
You’ve lived this long and never noticed that before?!
Debating, discussing, even --
thinking-about
other people’s ideas will never
take you a step closer to the discovery
that so tugs at the souls of
the few, (if the few had souls);
this fact is unconditional,
incontrovertible,
and almost entirely, Fat
Free.
Nothing that any other man has
ever thought or said has any significance, relevance, or importance to
what you seek –
whether they be ideas that you
agree with, or that you disagree with,
it makes not any difference
whatsoever,
and by you giving over your
precious & limited mental potential
to even THINKING
about what someone else has thought will
guarantee that you will never
discover anything.
Isn’t that nice to know?!….what
imaginable information could
possibly
be as helpful!…..and it could not be more
exact & accurate -- and could, (as a matter of fact),
be seen as the only statement
a human can make that is not
distorted & misleading:
no one else’s ideas about The Truth
have any relevance whatsoever;
they are neither correct, nor
incorrect,
they are not even partially
correct, with some errors,
they are simply & totally
-- irrelevant,
(and this statement being the
only mortal one which isn’t.)
You are not really hungry for
The Truth if you overtly, or silently
argue with the thinking of other
men,
for by dancing-with, and wrestling-with
thoughts that came from the
mind of some other sleeping human being,
you cement your own to that
same inconsequential level.
A
hermit who yet tolerates other people's ideas in his head,
so
as to examine & critique them,
reveals
himself -- even in solitude & silence -- to still
be a fool.
If you are a shark who says
he wants to become a landlubber,
but after an brief, understandable
initial interlude,
you make any comment about water,
call yourself what you are --
not a Truth-Seeking-Shark -- but a fool.
Keep thinking about anything
that anyone else has ever said or written
and you will drown in your own
environment ---
that is: be forever blinded
by your own eyes/I’s
--
-- by your very own quarrelsome, irrelevant thinking.
Don’t settle for being a wisenheimer;
create your own thinking --
and let others comment thereon,
(if they must).
J
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