JAN’S FRESH REAL NEWS
                           © 2001: Jan Cox
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 September 6, 2001.
 
 
 
 

While the benefits of the brain’s thoughts are singular
and too numerous to mention,
it has one, (let’s-do-our-best-to-ignore-it) drawback,
which is that it is a sucker, a patsy, and will,
on no more than the word of a stranger,
lead its host body into activities that are obviously not in its overall best interest (fasting, counter instinctive alterations to sleep & sexual habits, the abandonment of reserved resources),
always tied to a thought that says such activity will lead to
supernaturally beneficial results;
the umbrella limning of this defeat could be thus couched:
the brain will cause some of the thoughts it produces to claim they support certain ideas that the brain knows to be either patent nonsense, or plainly beyond its knowledge sufficient to form such rational support or not, (that the dead are still alive somewhere; that there are
conscious forces, living entities, extrinsic to our universe, and that
via their ipsidixit claims, some here, privately converse with them, etc,
[and this does not even go into the everyday childish flim flams
to which grown, educated men willingly submit themselves,
("The guy in the alleyway with the folding table & lookout
is clearly operating a fair game of skill with the 3 cards”;
“To receive my billion dollars from the overseas lottery I have just unwittingly won, it is quite understandable that they would ask me to
at least chip in a measly forty bucks to help defray their expenses in locating me”, or any of the other, sometimes-appearing, “legitimate” business scams involving such revered institutions as banking,
the stock market, indeed, anything that must be promoted to be sold)]).
And it is not accurate to leave this to the dismissive notion that
some people are just unusually gullible, or stupid, or unsophisticated;
Barnum himself held devoutly religious beliefs:
even the flim flamers are conned  --   no one is immune,
and the biggest suckers of all are those who pretend to reject
this native mental characteristic, (most are not supposed to,
or man’s singular activities would come to a quick stop).
This quirk does not show itself when the conscious operations of the brain are dealing with the tangible world;
therein it can make errors in measurements, (that river is no more than fifty yards across: iron is harder than diamond, etc),
and such can be corrected;
with the external world, thought makes judgments that either demonstratively match the physical reality of that which they speak of,
or they do not, and their veracity can be ultimately determined,
but when the brain’s thoughts deal with matters which exist only
in thought, there is no longer a question of whether the ideas are correct or incorrect, and there is now not the safeguard of being able to physically test whether the words the thoughts declare
match up with anything tangibly real;
it matters not whether your tape has twelve inches to the foot, or twelve hundred, if you are measuring Cinderella's waist.
The mind can be fooled because part of the game it plays
consists of foolishness;
the first-reality-thoughts in a priest’s mind seriously expect --
--  demand delivery of ten cartons of candles when ten are ordered,
but later his second-reality-thoughts take charge --
and while still appearing serious  --
he engages in totally silly speech & activity that, however,
many minds find highly entertaining  --
but it is not a carton of candles.
Do not let the seemingly serious thoughts that magically-appear
in your mind mislead you: this has been no fault finding exercise;
for the “defect, or flaw” supra described is merely a,
quotation marks, “defect” for it does no one any harm –
……who is not aware of it….or who does not dwell on it,
                               (is the room cleared now?!)
This drawback of the mind being so seemingly susceptible to deceit
is the very foundation of all human progress via technology
(the alteration of the environment),
and ‘tis of interest to the few for reasons totally beyond all matters of man’s mass evolution.
Those few born with that certain-hunger that
the collective trough cannot sate
will profitably zero in on the fact that  all of the thoughts concerning things non tangible which they and everyone else plays medium to
are entirely self generating, and totally self sustaining,
and that therein exists no iron, no inches, no cartons,
no anything but electro-chemical impulses that
the brain calls thoughts  --
and you & everyone else take its word for it & run with it.
Stop running with it & chasing after thoughts,
and you will suddenly see things as you never have.

                                                        J
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

P.S. If the routine mind part of the brain’s consciousness did work better,
the only study material you would need to, wake up would be to figure out why this statement is correct:
“Anyone who will answer the question:  ‘Are you awake?’  ---   isn’t.”
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

P.P.S. The supra post script is a tropical version of the story about the man with reportedly,
the world's biggest dick, who, when asked its exact length admitted he didn't know,
explaining that whenever he began to be aroused, the demands for blood to that region are so great
that it would deplete the supply to his brain to the point that he would always
pass out before it reached its full size;
likewise a man who, at the times when he sees for himself what is going on,
no longer has any thoughts about  --  what is going on.
 

                         Anyone who believes they know how enlightened they are   --   still don't get it.
 

                                               The glorious, passing-out of routine consciousness.