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JAN’S  PRE-SEASONED
MENTAL  TENDERIZER
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July 7, 2002                                                         © 2002: JAN COX
 
 
 
 

STORIES FROM HERE AND THERE  --  BUT MOSTLY AND
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To ultimately wake up fully to what is going on you must see through everything –
including the thing you have been using to see through.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Listening to the dialogue in a hackneyed science fiction movie a man commented:
“You have to give actors credit for being able to mouth twaddle with a straight face,”
to which another replied:
“Well on that basis --  you have to give everybody credit.”
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

The ordinary mind at work is found to be doing nothing but either criticizing,
or building on what someone else has already said;
re the physical world, technological progress depends on this,
(but for a scientist to vocally cavil about his colleagues personally is entirely unbecoming & unnecessary),
but doing so concerning man’s inner world is the foolishness of elaborating on,
or correcting existing descriptions of Ulysses.
 
 







Originality obeys no law.











Fiction & religion are man’s attempt to put the mystery back into life --
after his mind took it out by coming up with/conjuring up the concept of mystery.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

That of which the ordinary mind speaks, to some degree it harms.

    If you do not know what you are talking about  --  and do not realize it  --
    you can talk about anything --  with complete, ignorant impunity.

       The worst damage ever done to TheMysticalWay and those who might follow it
       was calling it, mystical  --  (“But what else the hell are you gonna call it?!”)
 
 









The common problem is that your mind is too anchored to you.












Just as dark shot movies are used to conceal a lack of creativity  --
                                                                --  so too with dark thoughts.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

A real man is his own code  --
the ordinary adopt a code to live by; an actual man is his own code.

   Once a man has a good idea of what he is doing he wears a code of many colors –
   as many colors as there are things for him to see through.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

The one good thing about not succeeding  is that you can never be a has-been,
and the neat thing about never knowing what is really going on is that
you are never aware that you do not.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Once you begin to smell what is going on you find that most of man’s programs
consist of trailers, teasers and come-ons.
....(“Say – are they ever gonna show the feature movie we came to see?!”)
 
 







Note: there is nothing to go back to.

                                                        Note: being normal is being nostalgic.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

“Okay Dad,” said a son, “Here’s what I don’t get:
  if words mean nothing  --   why do you even bother telling me anything?”
        “Okay, back at cha --  why do you bother asking me such questions?”
 
 







Some pretend to choke on allegories who will not try to swallow reality to begin with.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

To ultimately wake up fully to what is going on you must see through everything –
--  including the thing you have been using to see through.
 
 
 

J



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

One man says: “I never tell anyone anything I do not know to be true –
--  except when they insist I answer questions about myself --
    --  oh yeah, and that, 'anyone' includes my own thoughts.”

 
 
 
 
 
 

Those who think in clichés  --  speak in clichés.
Note: To varying degrees: everyone speaks in cliches..................especially concerning themselves.