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Getting To The Bottom Of It Since 1898
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PRESS CLIPPINGS FROM PLACES WHERE PEOPLE ARE NO LONGER HARD PRESSED

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July 13, 2002                                                        © 2002: JAN COX





“There is no doubt about it!   No sir!”
     “About what?”
“You know.”
 
 



Whatever it is you are talking about: if it cannot be physically measured,
it is but words; entertaining ones perhaps --  inspiring even  --  but still,
there is nothing whatever to the matter but words:
the things men’s minds use to present its dreams.







Man is made confused as a group;
you can only get straightened out privately.
 
 




Mind is awakened via language  --  then by the same tool, made drowsy.







City Headline: “Governor announces that the money received from the
tobacco company lawsuit settlement will be used to promote the state’s tobacco crop,” and this sort of thing drives men’s minds to near madness: “The irony of it all!” --
but such matters are not mere irony  –
the whole purpose for the word & concept is to cover up man’s realization of
something else that is going on.
 
 




In no satire or criticism is creativity found,
and where there is no creativity  --  there is no understanding.







Between the push/pull of what humans call genes and circumstances,
man's thoughts & emotions get played like a cheap accordion.
 
 




Jurisprudence makes specific note that “self serving” statements of an accused or defendant are not evidence in a court of law  --  but why stop there –
why confine it to a public building when you can apply it to your mind’s
private comments to you about you.







There are but two types of non technical news possible to report:
the repetition of what you have heard (gossip), and that which you know
from your own investigation of man’s inner world.
 
 
 
 
 
 

                        “Is life an upper or a downer?”
                           “Your asking the question answers it for you.”

                               “Can men change or not?”
                                   “Your asking the question answers it for you.”

                                       ”Is there any doubt about it at all?”
                                           “Not a bit.”
 
 
 
 
 
 

Contrary to the common notion that “the really important stuff is hidden from man” – everything is right out in the open:  problem is: you are standing wayyyy too close to your mind’s meaningless analysis of it.
 
 
 
 
 
 

Those who make economic predictions are people who got badly burned
making religious ones.
    “Yes, my motto has always been:
      Having horses to switch is how you survive uncontrollable streams,
       (which in life they all are, don’t you know).”
 
 




Only empty boxes are impressed by other empty boxes.
    “Hey --  don’t take it personally.”  --   “How else can it help me.”







One man says: “My trick is that while I do nothing except what I am forced to do,
I always speak as though it is by my own choosing; it is really a most useful trick.”
   “On whom?”  --   “Hey --  whom said that?”
 
 
 



Says one man: “For me: what was once deadly-serious is now just deadly.”


 







"There is no doubt about it!   Not a bit sir!”

                                                “About what?”
                                        “You know.   

J


 








.......One man still remembers The Great Shut Up Scare of 1985