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Getting To The Bottom Of It Since 1898
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CAPTAIN FOUND SLAIN ON THE POOP DECK:
NOW REALIZED THAT WHEN ALIVE, 
CAPTAIN HAD BEEN THE POOP DECK
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July 20, 2002                                                         © 2002: JAN COX




Of all the great boozles with which man’s been bammed,
the most grandiose is surely the  --  know-who-you-are hoax:
not simply a snipe hunt, but one put forward as necessary for a full, healthy life,
(with even about it, a whiff of benefits transcendental).
 


The mind of man is instilled with the belief that to know-who-you-are
is the highest of human goals, and the effort to achieve same, singularly laudable,
but this is a deceit: you cannot ever know-who-you-are  --  it is not possible.


Via psychiatry & religion, through philosophy, political science & common-sense,
every man is bathed in the idea that he should and can know-who-he-is;
he is made agree that not knowing who you are is the ultimate source of all
human suffering of a non physical sort,
and no man can think of anything to say against the effort;
indeed, should one do so, it would be taken as a sign of insanity.
A normal human mind simply cannot come up with any downside to
the exhortation to, know-who-you-are  --
what can there possibly be detrimental about it --   on the clear contrary (it seems):
real harm is done by a man not knowing who he is,
which can result in everything from him living an entire lifetime of simmering frustration to being medicated and incarcerated:
conventional and professional wisdom is that no man would turn to drugs,
or alcohol, or anti social behavior if he would but face up to what he is,
which obviously first requires that he know who he is.
Humans spend more money in this regard (counseling, books, classes)
than they do on their health, and when the subject is broached,
everyone from illiterate ditch diggers to erudite college professors will speak with unabashed assuredness of the necessity & benefits of a man knowing who he is,
and even though they commonly confess to probably not having themselves yet achieved complete success in this matter,
they none the less aver their full allegiance to the endeavor.

Such is but another vista of the normal life of man.
 

From a certain other view however  --  the whole thing is a fraud;

a deception made delicious and desirable to the mind of man,
but if you will --  and can move your thinking just one step further
than it would normally go in this matter (or any other matter for that matter),
it is obvious: there is no way possible for you to know-who-you-are;
it is not debatable --  there is no uncertainty about it --
you cannot know who you are, but note:
your thinking’s immediate reaction to this statement
(which represents the extent to which your natural born mind takes it)
is that it is unquestionably incorrect  --  if not outright ridiculous  --
but if you have that certain non standard neural potential, and can walk this matter
just one step past where your mind would normally leave it,
it is perfectly clear: it is literally not possible for a man to know-who-he-is:
that is the idea that is purely ludicrous, and yet nothing about it strikes the
ordinary mind as at all suspicious;
it is the supreme hoax  --  sublime in that it instantly seems to the mind
to be the very antithesis of all things questionable;
what more admirable effort can a man undertake than to: know-who-he-is;
the desire is surely inherent in man, and to all, its propriety, nay --  necessity,
is a certainty  --   but from one experiential view  --  not a theoretical one like governs the minds of the many --  it is literally, simply, clearly and plainly not possible for a man to know-who-he-is,
and realizing this is just what a few people need, (although most of them never discover it).
 


Every thing that ever gets mentioned in these daily writings
is to lead those who can and want to go there  --   to this realization (among others),
but your mind and understanding cannot be thereto drug by another;
you have to make your own thoughts and consciousness make the additional steps which will land you in this exotic land;
will take you just over an invisible line that in each man’s brain separates
silly putty & an anvil (aka: dreams & reality; foolishness & facts;
wishful thinking & how things actually are).




Only people who understand absolutely nothing
believe that they can, know-who-they-are, and to them (the world’s population)
the statement to the contrary is the epitome of insanity,
but for a man born with that certain neural wiring anomaly and hunger,
who presses ever onward,
his instant of reckoning, should it come, will right off reveal to him that
neither he nor any other human has any knowledge of who they are –
and with such a simple realization comes a most complex liberation;
freed from this one big demon  --   freed from a legion of smaller ones;
catch on to this one big swindle  --  save yourself from a million smaller cons.
 

The implanted belief that they can know-who-they-are,
and that by doing so they would be a  better person,
makes ordinary men  --  better persons,
but stagnating in this delusion makes a man with that CertainPotential
a much worse person.....as far as he is concerned.....’cept he don’t understand why,
but now (if you be such a person)  --  you know why (least you’ve had it noted to you);
believing that you can know-who-you-are keeps you from knowing what you are;
thinking  that you can know-who-you-are bars you from realizing what the mind is,
and without this  --   nothing will ever change for you,
and if you were born with ThePotential, but never discover this,
you will die having squandered your life.
(So many people do so seem to enjoy finishing on such a negative note.)

J






Pst --  for the rest of you (if there be any out there):
try just rolling the statement around and around in your head:
“It is not possible to know-who-you-are;
It is not possible to know-who-you-are;
It is not possible to know-who-you-are"  –
relax  --   take your time as you say the words in your mind;
let them softly waft through your consciousness as a curious little idea you are casually considering  --   pleasantly pondering,
and somewhere between: perhaps & surely –
an occurrence will one fine day come upon your brain wherein you instantly see
not only the foolishness of your mind believing that it can ever, know-who-you-are,
but also how it was connected to you never being able to look down between your feet and directly perceive the bottom of your barrel.
The beginning of you solving: The Mysterious Case Of You,
is in you discovering for yourself the simple fact that: you cannot, know-who-you-are,
and living in the perfectly normal human dream that you can,
                              is what keeps you from seeing the daylight.
 
 

Ahhh --  that glorious single lane   --   Road To Destruction.

J