JAN'S
DAILY NEWS
Getting To The Bottom
Of It Since 1898
A
FLY-BACK-OVER,
RE-SURVEY
OF THE
WEEK’S MAIN STORIES,
SEEN
FROM
SLIGHTLY
DIFFERENT
PERSPECTIVES
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There
is a special type of alertness -- a tension almost --
needed
to deal-with & overcome the,
they-tie-me-down-while-not-actually-being-actually-relevant
conditions
of life --
a
tension which at its core is relaxed --
a
relaxation based on an outsider’s understanding.
(Once you realize
that not only do you not have a dog in the fight,
but that the
fight itself is an illusion -- you’ve pretty much got the deal down.)
According
to one former con man turned police consultant:
“The
kind of people who buy life insurance, pay their taxes and pray for help,
are the same ones who will fall for the old, ‘know-yourself’
scam.”
(Who better to guard the hen house than a fox who doesn’t believe in chickens.)
The first Challenge is to not be ordinary.
Being, on-top-of-your-game requires that the game be one of your own creation.
Even if you do not think you are smart enough to
ever wake up to what is really going on
if you will just relentless do the best you can
the sheer quantity of effort will get the job done -- believe
it.
Being, on-top-of-your-game requires that the game be one of your own creation.
You need to kiss yourself good-morning, and knock yourself out, good-night --
.........and what the hell gives with seemingly sane people going out of
their way,
and spending money to be berated?!!
The
specific source of the inner conditions in which men feel themselves trapped
is: their own mental self-absorption.
.......(“You
really should get out more.”)
One
man’s attitude toward conditions is similar to his personal view
of the origins of the universe, which he calls his: W.T.H.D.A.O.T.S.C.F.A.W.A.I.G.T.P.I.
theory, the: Where The Hell Did All
Of This Stuff Come From
And
Where Am I Going To Put It? theory.
While
the human mind has figured out and continues to figure out
a
myriad of marvelous things,
and
indeed has yet to conclude that
there
may be anything in the entire universe that it cannot eventually figure
out,
for
lo these thousands of years there remains one thing it has never figured
out,
and
it misses out by not taking up The
Really Big Challenge
(that of):
A
man said to his girl friend (life in masquerade);
“You are so sweet to me,
that
I feel bad being such a rotten person......I don’t really, but I would....
....if I weren’t such a rotten person.”
He
later wondered how he might tie that idea to him being both asleep and
not asleep, and would be less asleep all of the time -- were
it not for him being
partially
asleep all
of the time.
All
unnatural molecules are made from natural components, as all things
foolish
and imaginary are constructed from something non so and real,
(religion from fear, etceterafied).
A challenge that can be described is an imitation.
Just
as a man who will talk to you about others will talk to others about you,
so
too will a man who will tell you what he claims to know,
tell
you also what he does not know, without bothering to differentiate the
two.
Judging
something to be either good-or-bad, right-or-wrong, this-or-that
requires
you know its aim,
and
no one in this universe can know what the aim of anything in this
universe is.
Mental, self-absorption is the prohibition of self realization.
Simply,
“being alive” is not a challenge (least not to a non imitation person).
You
cannot “know who you are” and all attempts to & beliefs that you can
simply
keep
you dazed and unaware that you are so.
“Today
why don’t we undertake an in-depth study of the concept, ‘encouragement’?”
“Let’s
don’t -- for everyone’s sake -- don’t!”
Only an aim that is a-respecter-of-no-conditions is worthy a real man.
One
man has this thing he does: every evening he gives himself thirty seconds
to
say in words what new understanding he has gained that day.
A
son asked a father:
“You
once said that if you show no interest in yourself, neither will anyone
else, and
what
I want to know is if this is applicable within just the confines of your
own head?”
“And what that is useful is not?!”
An
eye/I
watching itself cannot only not see anything but itself,
but
cannot see even that.
One
man says that once he got over the, “conditions-thing”
he
found life to be one big sweet, mellowdrama.
.......................................(“Thespians!
-- start your engines!”)
Having
no destination -- you can’t go astray;
offering
no explanations -- you can never be wrong.
One
man says that his all time, absolute favorite proverb is:
“Stupidity
is a sure sign of superior intelligence.”
............(He
also proudly adds that he made it up himself!)
But for memory, ordinary men would have nothing to talk about casually.
“Pa
pa, over the years you have told me many different things,
and
I would like to know:
do
you stand by each and every thing you have ever said?”
“Would you
stand by a burning building that was about to fall over?”
“I
don’t see the connection.”
“Well, tough
titty for your team I guess.”
“..........................Oh
-- okay, I get it.”
J
J
Notes
one man: “The neatest part of talking about matters metaphysical &
spiritual
is
that nothing you say can ever be proven stupid or wrong.”
J
“Son, now you
answer me a question:
of all the things
I have ever said to you -- what annoys you most?”
“Stuff about you having made up everything you’ve told me.”
“GOOD!
NOW: do you understand where to go
with that?”