email 
homepage 

         JAN’S DAILY FRESH REAL NEWS
                       © 2001: Jan Cox
July 1, 2001.
 
 
 

(First, an addendum to 6/31:  Last night, 
in regard to what his father had talked to him about earlier,  the son said to the elder,:
"After thinking about it all day,  I have decided that what you told  to me this morning is the dirtiest,  most delightful thing I have ever heard." 

                                               Now  today's news.)

                                                               ________________________
 
 
 
 
 
 

                  BACK TO THE YAMMER SLAMMER
            ________________________________
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

One ex-con notes:
“Ordinary people consider thinking as: 
trying to understand some particular something,
while I think of thinking as: trying to understand thinking.”
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Humans’ brains lead them to believe that they have a greater potential than they actually do;
this is what causes them to make the extraordinary efforts they do.

   When the bombers began to run out of fuel
   they began dropping themselves on the scenery below;
   to the terror of some,
   and the delight of others.


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

One man says:
“As soon as I show up  --   everything gets quiet;
all I want is for things is be quiet when I am not around.”
(The man just described that peculiar position of the few 
to a sweet T,  fare-de-well.)


 
















Speak the truth; don’t say: “I am asleep,” but rather say: "I am asleep.”
 It’s not that, other-guy-you  that is asleep --   it’s that YOU you  that is;

                                  yeah, that one  --   the only one you are.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

One man had a bird that soared & sang;
he wanted it caged & quieted –
it in fact became an obsession. 

Then one day he thought about how much he enjoyed
  poetry, music, and the grace of movement, and wondered: 
How to explain this?! 


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Plans for escape  --  even the most detailed ones  -- 
from prisons not understood  --  are useless.

  Man’s collective captivity is no more explicit to the mind 
  than is a drowsy man’s individual version.

   Not all who cry out: “Let me,  (that is) --  my people  --  go!”
   even have a people................much less anywhere to go. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Waking up is trying to keep two balls in the air at the same time --
when there is only one ball.


 

















A Proverb Updated & Its Usefulness Maximized:

Of the dead: say nothing but good; 
of the living  --  say nothing.
 

    The belief that one individual can effect the life of another, 
    (viz. heroes & role-models), can be a most expensive illusion. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

One man says: ”To, think, (as per my conception of it), is to think only in real time -- 
--  and the only real time is -- right-now-time.

As concerns the few:  nothing has ever happened before TO think about,
and nothing is about to.

To, think is to think only about  --  right now.......................................at most.”
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Those with cleared-out & open-upped eyes/I’s 
see the blank wall, and think: “There is a blank wall.”
(The rest of the prisoners,  trapped amidst blank walls,
don’t have it that good.)

Okay waylon,  let’s all sing:
“Mama, don’t let your babies grow up to be   --   wall-deniers.”


 
 
 
 
 
 
 

At first was a rumor,
his brain had a tumor,
but eventually it said: “Hey --  it’s just me.”


 


















If you do begin to believe that man is mentally imprisoned –
you are an idiot;
if you still believe he is not --  you are an imbecile;
(the difference is in a three year time spread 
between the two classifications).
 

       Not all of those who yell at the guards: 
      ”You’ll never take me alive!”   --   actually have a live.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

       Independent thinking is necessary for non hostile humor.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Anything you say about a piece of art other than: “Nice,” 
is donkey brays,
(and again reveals you to be a fool). 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

A man who has independently figured out what thinking is,
has one less thing to bother him……….which, he discovers:
was the only thing that EVER bothered him.

(“Tonto, I don’t know which of them to shoot:
they all look alike:
they all look like me.”)
 
 

   In the absence of a wooly mammoth,
   the only possible cause of, thought-aggression,
   is a failure to understand the nature of thoughting.
 
 

   Mental anger is to protect the body;
   mental anger is mentally blinding.
  (Always, SMILE, just before you shoot ‘em.)


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Once a year  --  for less than a second --
what everyone believes that they know  --  turns to dust.

           Once a year, everyone has the opportunity of a life time.
 
 
 

Once a year, on one world,
the prisoners were turned loose for a day --
but the practice was eventually abandoned  --
since none of them ever went anywhere.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

It is the cell walls in front of you & behind you that are always blank:
life will allow decoration on the ones to your side –
so as to distract you.
(Works good, huh?!)

   “Look Lois --  off to the side:
                           It’s something irrelevant!
                           It’s something that doesn’t even exist!  --  and yet:
                           it’s more captivating to my mind than a train load of hog blisters!

                          Wow! Mr. White --  how do you explain this?!”

(Jimmy just got over heated;
 he’d be fine once we get him back to his cell,
 …‘course, everyone always is..................... once they’s  --   back home.)

                         The center is safe  --   it's the peripherals that'll kill you. 
 
 











   Prisoners speak their own unique language --

which is why no one knows what the hell they’re talking about.


 















In one sense: 
independent thinking is:  all width and no depth   --   which is all right,
inasmuch as the deep profundity ordinary men attribute to their thinking
is all an illusion any way.

“Okay, the warden says that the ventriloquist can perform for you guys tonight --   but you’re gonna have to play the part of the dummy,”

             and Number 687 muttered: “So what else is new?!”
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

And a final guy says:
“As soon as I show up  --  the party stops:
all I want from all of this is for the party to not go on even when I am not there. 
Is that too much to ask?!” he demands  --

                                well  --  yes it is, (since you ask).
 
 

                       Only a clown would pose such a question.
 

                                                       J
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

P.S. Anyone who wants to try the method described yesterday of: 
Pretending to be awake, be advised that to do it properly,
no one but you can be aware of what you are doing.