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ANOTHER
EXAMPLE OF HOW LOOKING AT SOMETHING BACKWARDS
CAN
REVEAL A DEAD-ON VIEW OF ITS TRUE NATURE
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The
most disparaging thing that can be said of a sophisticated man is that
he is “clueless” -- whereas,
if
a man really was -- absolutely clueless
About
matters mental, no man’s mind thinks itself clueless;
it
will readily admit total ignorance regarding some subject physical
(farming, mechanics,
mathematics), but the thoughts natural to each man’s brain,
which constitute his particularly shaded consciousness, and mental conception
of life,
come
with the innate characteristic of believing that they already have
some
understanding
of anything they hear mentioned concerning man's mental life, (in
other words); normal human minds are born with clues,
(or to return
to more precise possibilities):
routine
human minds are born believing
that they possess clues,
(which [to run-of-the-mill-minds]
is operationally, one and the same).
Little
is needed for a normal man to acknowledge his cluelessness concerning something
physical,
(the untrained
looking at an atomic reactor and realizing he has no idea whatever of how
it works),
but
nothing remotely similar is so when man (via his thoughts)
attempts
to look internally at what seems to be his own individual self
(in more exact
terms): when thoughts venture to survey themselves.
Even
the epitome of inexperienced naiveté -- a just-talking
child –
when
condemned for some behavior will immediately offer a full blown explanation
therefor, having apparently -- obviously?! --
looked into
the
psychological-recesses of its own brain wherein it must have -- or,
seemingly --
found
clues to its own motivations;
but
how can this be? --
how
can such proffered explanations of one’s private personality come from
an infant who only days ago began to speak and display the features of
consciousness?
A
little knowledge or ignorance
does not go -- a-long-way –
it
goes
all
the way and covers everything it touches;
an
astigmatism you start with -- your sight forever is stuck
with;
an
incorrect number or symbol at the beginning of a mathematical problem --
no matter how small or apparently insignificant -- dooms its
outcome;
commence
a journey favoring one foot -- you end up going in a circle:
all
of these metaphors point to the same reality:
undertake
an investigation believing erroneously that you have clues,
and
anything you subsequently accept as a solution to the case is (as
Sherlock would say) Baskervilles Houndshit (i.e.
innately flawed, and not to be carried into prim parlors).
Normal
humans minds are (as it were) -- born possessing
clues to the puzzle of
the
human mind and all that populates the infinite inner world it creates in
man,
but
from the non normal view (and inexplicable, pre- experience)
of the certain man,
none
of the clues are valid -- they are meaningless --
they
have no relationship whatever to the actual facts of the case --
other
than for the fact that by all normal appearances -- they DO! –
this
(not
surprisingly) is the foundation of the bamboozlement and
man’s
generally
unrealized confusion in matters wherein his mind seems most certain
--
Although,
when measured by all present circumstances, it seems unavoidable,
if
a man
could start out -- free of the specious clues
the ordinary mind comes with,
he
would never experience any doubt concerning what life is about,
nor
suffer any uncertainty regarding what he and the unique mental world
his
thoughts construct, are all about.
So
-- from the certain perspective: it is from not
being clueless that
all
which bothers the certain man follows (but more to the practical
point):
from
his lack of realizing
that
all the clues are meaningless, spurious, vacuous,
and
meaningless -- and verily: if there be something somewhere
--
--
that is somehow even less
than meaningless -- this will be it.
The
clues native to and accessible to even the best educated minds
are
not merely flawed, incomplete, or even wrong --
they
are
(from the certain man’s view) the mind covering
up its own eyes,
(or perhaps more
pithily put): the clues men’s minds come up with to describe
itself,
and
to explain the nature of the singular and magnificent universe it creates
within man
are
in fact the mind waving its hands in front of its own eyes
while
it plays tricks on itself:
like
what a magician does to lead the audience's view away from the place at
which
he
is preparing his illusion:
as
the viewers’ eyes follow, he holds high his right fist, which was
just now empty,
as
with his left, he extracts from his pocket the trinket he is about to make
magically
appear;
not
at all whatsoever-ever unlike what goes on continually in man’s ready made
mind;
his
mind says to itself (who else is
there to say it to?!):
“Look!
-- right here is a valuable clue to the mystery of you”
(it
now pretending there is a you,and
that it is talking to it [in
a helpful manner, no less]),
and
to standardly outfitted humans -- everything unquestionably seems
in order;
you
having your mind do what it is good at: figuring things out –
now
you have it working on figuring out why you, other people & life,
are
as they are, and do as they do -- but the truth is: your
mind hasn’t got a clue;
all
ordinary men & their minds are totally clueless -- and
not one in a billion suspects.
Using
meaningless -- not merely erroneous -- errors
can be corrected, but -- meaningless
clues
can
only lead to (blank)
conclusions (you provide the adjective).
On that planet where things are complex and hefty,
Men who believe they “have-a-clue” (or worse!) are clueless.
J
“Pa pa --
is it really as simple as it has herein been made to sound?”
“Can’t
say that it is.”
“Then will you
explain it in better detail.”
“Can't
do that either.”
JAN'S
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