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JAN’S
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April
12, 2002
©
2002: JAN COX
(Continuation
of 4/9-11/02)
PERSONALITY & DISPOSITION MEET THE FLOATING CITY OF JUNK
The
Floating
City Of Junk,
invisibly enveloping all of human life on Earth,
is
entirely the creation of man’s personality;
coming
as a result of personality having interests, rather than needs,
as
is the case with his disposition.
The
planet physically provides for all of its life’s needs, including man’s;
indeed,
what men need was present -- and had to be – even before
he appeared,
(back
again to the inseparability of a thing and its environment
which
mind’s vocabulary cannot contain),
but
the unique needs of his personality are to be found no where on this
widely
diverse orb: not laying around on the ground; not under the soil;
not
back in caves; not up in trees; not down in fjords;
what
his personality needs did not exist before man arrived;
The
proverb: “Hunger is the best cook” unwittingly comes from this,
yet
is but a pale reflection of the full situation sponsoring it:
one
in which the Hunger not only prompted the meal,
but
had to conjure up -- out of thin air -- all of
the victuals.
To
survive, all disposition (the driver of man’s car) has to do is look
--
all
it needs is to be found already around;
personality
on the other hand, to meet its needs (in the form of interests)
must create
-- and for that, there is no where to look but to itself.
No
other agency on this planet will assist man in this;
those
things intended to meet his personality’s interests -- he alone
must invent,
(at
least he has no kibitzers second guessing him over his shoulder).
The
conditions on earth are such that personality and disposition
do
not compete for the same resources;
disposition
consumes only the physical ones,
while
the sustenance of personality is entirely immaterial,
(an
adjective despised by personality for its common connotation);
that
which sustains personality is intangible,
a
situation entirely foreign to all other forms of life on this planet.
Sic,
did personality feel moved to invent a whole separate category of words
such as: spiritual, metaphysical, supernatural, in an effort to
lend legitimacy to
this
bewildering concept.
Piece
by piece; bit by bit; notion by notion; thought by thought
did
man’s personality construct The
Floating City Of Junk,
(or
we could here say: Floating
City Of Special Interests-Met).
This
city, (which is actually a world
unto itself), is a city:
(but
as far as disposition is generally concerned,
personality’s
Special
City might as well be in some other
universe).
The
complete construction and entire upkeep falls to personality –
and
up to the task it be, in fact, it and The City are one,
just
as anything and its environment are the same thing;
man’s
personality and The
Floating City Of Junk & Interests-Met
are
inseparable;
when
man’s mind is inThe
City -- it ceases to exist;
it
totally loses itself to
The City; gives itself over totally to The City --
merges,
disappears;
Those
with a quirk in their neural wiring,
which
urges them to seek answers for questions normal men do not even consider,
are
unknowingly faced with a situation just as improbable as that of
personality
being able to survive on bodiless nourishment:
they
must somehow,
from
the already laid out schematic in the conscious areas of their brain,
create
-- conjure up -- draw out -- a
new personality.
The
one they and everyone else is born with cannot do what the few want;
the
interests of
another personality is already evident in them –
all
that is needed is to flesh it out -- entice it out
of
the incomprehensible depths of the human brain.
This
new personality sees right through The
City Of Junk;
understands
instantly its genesis, and wholly, its function;
it
does not dislike The Junk City Of Mundane
Interests-Met --
it
is merely uninterested;
(the
other personality of the refined few has other fish to flambant).
Ordinary
people believe they are constantly, “Of two minds” –
simultaneously
attracted and repelled by certain ideas,
but
as always, dey don’t know de tenth of
it;
those
catching on to what is going
on are dealing with three minds:
and
the more experienced they become, the more space does their
newly
developed one take up in this triumvirate -- at the expense
of the old one.
The
trick to breaking free of elective illusions which have captured your thoughts,
and
made your view of life distorted,
is
indeed, most complex and laborious;
it
entails recognizing the difference between illusions and not --
thereby
causing your awareness of their elective nature.
You
can live in Junk City if you like -- and the personality you were
born with -- likes;
there
is, from no perspective known in the universe, anything wrong with
doing so,
it
indeed is what men are supposed to be doing;
that
is why their thoughts built The City
--
--
so that their thoughts would have a place to go.
The
potential, new personality has another
place to go --
a
place no one in the entire universe knows about but you --
(once you get there, of course).
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Additional Items Regarding The Main Story Of Today & Yesterday
By
disposition, men collect in herds -- like cows;
by
personality, they gather in flocks -- like crows;
the
key ingredient here is: imitation:
everyone
being verbal & mental look-alikes, and eager-to-please cannibals.
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One
man mused: “My personality is digitally inclined
while
my disposition remains analogue."
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Personality
resides strictly in the head,
though
its influence can extend throughout the person;
disposition
is everywhere to begin with.
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Personality
requires updates -- disposition only
up keep.
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Once
a man gets past a certain point of consistent intensity in his efforts,
he
ceases to cast a shadow;
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Men only think of personality as having some parts that are better than others;
There’ll
be no humor in heaven
‘cause
that’s not where personality’s headed.
“I
don’t get it!”
“Well, laugh and no one’ll know.”
J
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