JAN'SDAILYNEWS
Getting To The Bottom
Of It Since 1888
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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
Those
who think in clichés -- speak in clichés.
Note:
To varying degrees: everyone speaks in cliches..................especially
concerning themselves.