Men
know two sorts of things:
things
they can prove by demonstration,
and
things they can only argue;
a
man who knows that water will extinguish fire
can
physically show the validity of his knowing;
a
man who knows that Zarabuddachu is the scion of god can only insist it
is so;
everyone
knows this when with it confronted,
but
men's minds are programmed to both ignore it, or when necessary,
explain
it away to its compelled satisfaction.
In
things men know that do not matter,
it
does not matter whether they can be proven true or not,
but
in things men know that do not matter and cannot be proven,
not
remembering that you know this is downright disastrous
for
a man with TheInterest.
If
something you know can be demonstrated to be true,
that
is proof of its usefulness;
things
you know which cannot be demonstrated are thereby shown irrelevant --
if
your aim is to see what is really going on.
Life
for man is arranged so that this matter is not by the majority
perceived
at all thus -- nay, men are made to mentally bristle at its mere
mention;
thought
takes serious umbrage at hearing the undemonstratable impugned
(quite understandable,
thought being by nature what it is) --
the
tongues of normal mortals are directed to zealously protect the reputation
of the things men know which cannot be proven by showing, after all, these
things are the very foundation of civilization, and man's walkway from
the feral life.
"What
is
a man without his beliefs and commitments?!"
commands
the authoritative voice of mankind the collective:
"Men
whose lives are only of the flesh are not fully civilized men!"
they pronounce --
and
within the standard context -- this is so by proof of operation.
A
man with that certain non standard brain blip,
privately
driven to grasp what is going on far beyond what life has everyone else
saying they know
is going on,
does
not have such a perspective of this matter;
he
(like everyone else) clearly recognizes the usefulness
of things men know
which
can be demonstrated (since, in one way or another they always
add to his
comfort, or aid in his survival),
but
what he recognizes that others are born blind to is the actual nature,
and
function of the things men know which they only know because
their
thoughts say they are known,
and
whose proof of existence is only that they are thought of;
a
man with this uncommon approach has no personal use for
the
knowing of such things --
while
he is attempting to clear his cortex so as to cleanse his sight,
the
knowing of such things is like fog pumped into his head.
To
ever view what is going on in life and in you (which is what you
think you see
going on in
life) in a way life obviously does not intend to be man's
norm,
you
cannot allow the conscious part of your brain to do naught but
ride
the common, collectively fed neural waves which sweep through
all
men's brains, and which treat the things men know which cannot be demonstrated,
but only talked about,
as
being something other than they are -- entertainment
-- distraction;
the
clacking noise a train makes as it speeds along the tracks.
One man did
not like that he received telegrams,
and at first
blamed the telegrams;
then, in what
he considered as progress, he began to blame the delivery man;
he ultimately
realized that his attention should be on the delivery man's heart pumping.