JAN’S DAILY REAL NEWS

                     © 2001: Jan Cox
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September 27, 2001.
 
 
 

The mind men are born with apparently has nothing to think about
other than the words of other men;
thus all of the world’s creation myths unwittingly say that man only came into his
full manhood (became conscious)
after the creator became, The Word --  the first word in existence --
getting the ball rolling by finally giving men’s minds something to think about.
(If for no other reason than this,
man would have been forced by the demands of
the law of cause&effect his mind subsequently created,
to come up with stories of an anthropomorphic creator
as a way for his mind to tolerably explain itself to itself.
[And indeed, whether you have come to recognize this most useful bit of information or not:
every time any man says the word, “God” he is unknowingly saying, “Mind”;
it is man’s mind speaking of itself in a theoretical future tense.])
The continuity of all creatures’ physical existence lies in genes;
the continuity of man’s civilized existence rests on words;
verbal cannibalism is the keystone to collective stability,
and to individual men’s sanity (routine men);
widespread disruption in an area’s verbal continuity and cannibalism results in chaos, collapse and regression.
The progress visible to man depends on periodic,
but limited appearance of new thought;
diverging somewhat from the presently accepted truth,
and turning man’s attention in a fresh direction,
but like a bridge to a place new,  with one end still rooted in the place old.
This is what is seen to be progress;
the gradual evolving of things old into improved new versions.
Thus is a sense of continuity maintained,
for even when an individual man now & then has a new, unfamiliar thought,
(which promises benefit),
it can always be seen as but the inevitable next step from some older well known one.
But all of this pertains exclusively to the physical world,
for it is only there that progress exists;
men take no specific note of this, and contraire –
inspecifically deny it constantly by their verbal assertions of cultural progress.
Man’s physical health improved when he went from blood letting to antibiotics;
from x-rays to MRI’s,
and similarly does his mind say that the inner invisible man (the mind)
has improved as he has gone from paganism to religionism;
from morality plays to realistic dramas;
from representative painting to abstract, (later from abstract back to representative); from disco to punk, corsets to bikinis --   a list without end.
(Inescapably are all such mentally existing, secondary features of man’s life
an integral part of his overall physical existence;
failure to recognize their relative position is what is herein being highlighted
and is of significance to those desirous of a non confined view of what is going on.)
Mind’s middle name is, “new;”
its purpose for being is to discover the new in the physical realm,
and invent it in its own  --  but it can hardly do so  --
except for the fact that it can do so at a moment’s notice.
The consciousness in your brain lives via thoughts,
and it craves fresh food ---  but there is always a scarcity;
thus it chews and re chews the same thoughts over & over,
and is constructed to tolerate the situation,
but it is also built with the ability to harmlessly fool itself into professing that
it does have fresh thoughts – thoughts that it itself came up with,
and its almost exclusive form of these “new thoughts” is:
a rejection of some other person’s previous thoughts
(which itself was a reaction to someone else’s prior thought, etc).
This sustains the verbal continuity & stability needed for
civilization and its child: progress-in-the-physical-world,
but it does nothing for the mind but run it around in endless circles,
masquerading as upward moving spirals.
This is neither good nor bad, here nor there with routine people;
most humans do not care specifically whether the currently accepted,
“proper school” of serious  music is: Modern, Post-Modern, or Neo-Romantic,
but the collective mind of man’s passive embrace of its own self-sourced picture of
a cultural, spiritual, purely-intellectual progress by way of changing terminologies does ultimately determine what general menu of thoughts they will have available to think about.
If asked to look in himself and consider the matter,
any sane human would have to confess that every thought
he ever has is about words someone else has said,
you do not think about what other people have done,
even when you believe you do,
you are actually thinking about the verbal descriptions you hear in your head
regarding something they may have done,
and your mental description of their actions was taken from some other person’s verbal explanation of such actions.
You do not “think” about some harmful deed done to you by another person,
when you remember it, your thoughts about it are actually thoughts about the words that your thoughts use to bring it up from your memory.
Without words you could not remember anyone’s actions;
you do not “remember” things that you have physically experienced,
you remember your mind’s verbal descriptions thereof.
This, any reasonable person can glimpse for a second,
(then totally forget), but what is more difficult to see is this
same situation in place when thoughts think about your past experiences which occurred solely in thoughts:
here, thoughts let you shamefully down (bad thoughts!).
In the mental operations you came from the factory with,
thoughts fail to make a distinction between thinking about the cut you received
when mugged last year,
and the words your thoughts employ to describe the psyche of the mugger  --
not his physique --  but his psyche,
the words that fully constitute your consciousness at the moment,
talk about the inner man of the mugger like a dog;
speculating on his ancestry; his social and educational background;
his religion or lack thereof.
You do not remember, nor think purely in images:
they may be present
(in your head you can see the mugger as he stepped from the alley, knife in hand)
but always accompanying it will be a verbal commentary about the scene;
if such is not there, you can have no image of or memory of the event;
(check it for yourself  --   the rest of the world is not going to).
And in addition is the fact that your own private, personal
memory-cum-commentary of your mugging will be verbally described to you
using descriptions your thoughts cannibalized from other men’s words;
your thoughts do not know that the mugger was a product of a
lower class, uneducated life, etc;
the big boys’ fact is that no one actually knows that mugging is a “bad” thing to do;
while life directs some to mug, on a wider scope it also obviously disapproves thereof as witnessed by the fact that as soon as a group of people start to become civilized, one of their first acts is to forbid theft and physical assault,
yet the fact remains that no human knows, nor can know
if any particular thing that occurs in this universe (this reality) is good or bad,
be it an action of a man or of an atom or star,
since we have nothing outside of this reality by which to compare it,
(another purpose served by thought’s creation of a supernatural power external to man to which thought can then attribute, “declarations of eternal fact”
which tries to offer an illusion of there being an objective standard by which
man might measure things here),
but for those scattered few,
for whom only the great realization will do,
nothing in ordinary men’s thinking sufficeth;
not the idea that only god knows;
not the belief that man cannot know,
and certainly not the notion that some other person may know
and if I adopt his words, I will know also.
Force your consciousness to look at the thoughts running through it
(as unnatural & tricky as this be),
and see clearly for yourself that the only --  the ONLY things that you think about --   you  --  the astoundingly insightful, damn-near-enlightened creature that you  are –
that the only things even YOU think about are the words of other (Ugh!)
dull, insipid, certainly-not-enlightened men.
‘Course, part of the trickiness is that thoughts will say that they are going through
the words of other men to discover their errors and thus learn to avoid them,
but this is easily observed to be untrue (it almost seems insulting
to describe the matter to you in any greater detail).
All you have to do is sincerely look, and you are quickly aware that
all you and everyone else (‘cept god) think about is
the words your thoughts have picked up from other men’s thoughts --
--  other men as unknowing as you.
The great realization only comes when you can find something to think about
that is NOT the words of other people --
and it does not matter, which other people --  any other people.
To think about their words, pro or con, is to inhale their lack of understanding;
you cannot be for or against anything that anyone else has ever said
and ever see what is really going on for yourself.
People like to say that there is not much in life that a man can
truly count on  --  but you can count on that.

                                                      Skoal.

                                                         J