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REBELS  DRIVEN  FROM  CITY;
CITY  CAN'T  TELL  MUCH  DIFFERENCE

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *  June 30, 2002                                                                               2002: JAN COX
 
 
 
 

STORIES FROM HUMAN LIFE & OTHER FUNNY PLACES
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Those who do not understand what is going on are always going on about wanting to  improve-the-human-condition.

    People with nothing better to do want to help others do better.

        People who cannot cause themselves to do better,
                                                   want to help others do so.
 
 



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Everyone recognizes the major-problems --   but few the little & only important one --
the one in them:  the thing in them that recognizes the problems, but not itself.
 
 



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“Son, here’s the trick: when you don’t know  --  make it up –
 and the other trick is: to yourself, act always as though you don’t know.”
 
 




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Man is the only creature who does not understand what is going on;
this from him being the only creature who wants to know what is going on.

   You can never get-to-the-bottom-of-things until you get to the bottom of the thing wanting to get-to-the-bottom-of-things.
 
 
 
 
 

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In ordinary consciousness, thought follows words;
in the specially developed version of the few,
it looks at their source........and treats them for what they are........just sounds.
 
 



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In any group of human beings, ninety eight per cent will readily follow anyone who proclaims their self leader   --    it is true physically –  and it is true mentally,
and everyone is born with a neuron in their brain which will make such
leadership assertions for itself and with remaining brains parts that will fall in line.
 
 



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Everyone has their own particular major-distraction  --
   everyone also secretly has their own individual mojo-workin’  --
     's jus that most people aren’t hip to its existence  --
         .....oh yeah, everyone also has an occult tattoo that identifies them precisely for

what-they-are.
 
 
 
 
 

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Men appear to have a physical life and a mental one,
but more accurately would the latter be called  --   verbal.
 
 
 
 
 

                                “So,” said a son to a father:
                                “When you say that man’s inner reality is without substance,
                                  you are saying that god does not exist?!"
                                    “That is not it.”
                               “But that is included in it --  right?!”
                                      “Everything is.”
 
 



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One man says he wants to take-a-stand and make it officially known that
he most strenuously and adamantly disapproves of
how close the brain stem part of the old  brain comes to the cortex.
(He says this is for both physical and metaphysical reasons  --  but primarily for both.)
 
 



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The ordinary want to know: “Why am I treated so badly?”
“Why am I not rich and famous?” while the few want to know what knowing is;
want to see what seeing is, hear what hearing is,

and be able to satisfyingly think about what thinking is.







One man mused: “If the reality of it all doesn’t get me  --  the irony of it will  --

--  or vice versa.”
 
 
 
 
 

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A gead diveaway is that if a man is really interested in waking up to what is going on
he will speak about that and not about himself.
 
 
 
 
 

There is no exploration-of-self in consciousness  --  only the invention thereof.

    Consciousness is like space: it creates & enlarges itself as it talks about itself.


 
 
 
 

Only those who do not know what is going on think that something terrible might be.
    “But my cells make me do it!    ---    do they know something I don’t?”
 
 
 
 

One man says: “Here’s how I gauge my relationship to any possible illness:
if it has no symptoms   –    I’ve got it.”--
is this not the poster boy for those AfterTheThing or what!

 
 
 
 
 
 

If men actually meant even a small portion of the words that come from their mouths, the world (as they say) would actually be in  --  a world of trouble.







One way to tell you are making progress is when you realize that you now commonly forget to mention yourself, and what you think and how you feel.
 
 
 
 
 
 

A perfect case of what the mind is  --   the radio broadcast of a baseball game.

 
 
 
 
 

Man is two separately observable animals: the doer and the talker,

(which may bear little resemblance to each other.)
 
 
 
 
 

Does not students’ greater enthusiasm for their sports teams over their studies
hint to you something.









 “Son, today I have but one parting piece of advice (and I don’t hardly even mean it):

don’t fuck with a man with atomic goobers.”










.........“By the way Pa Pa: is there an alternative to simply being: pleasant & insincere?”

“Yes --  pretending to be.”
 

J


 

Words --  you gotta love 'em!.......well....you don't GOTTA, you can taken 'em seriously like everyone else does.