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 October 6, 2002                                                                     © 2002: JAN COX
 

Consider head-on just how intelligent the normal mind is:
people express extreme confidence in news anchors
when the viewers know as much about what is actually going-on
as do the reporters  –  who are simply reading what is handed to them.
(Cf.  you listening to the thoughts, opinions & views broadcast in your head
as though they have great gravitas.)
The problem with education being the solution to man’s ignorance is that
it is based-on & limited-to the consciousness of the educators.
Another Example Of How Mind Cannot Get Straight Its Notion Of: Cause & Effect:
Religion didn’t cause guilt  --   guilt caused religion,
    “Then say Paw --  what did stupidity cause?”
        “Believe me Son, you don’t want to go into that just now.”
(According to one ignored source: Satan’s original name was: "The Repetitious One.”)
Statement Of Fact:
In the physical sine qua non of survival  --  everything is of equal importance;   likewise in man’s mental realm  --  but no one realizes it ‘cept the certain man.
(This was a trick, statement-of-fact --  “But Father, I thought they all are?!”)
    What men like about movies, music, books, and other entertainments is that
    they provide something that is already going on to spin their minds
    without them having to start from scratch.
“The crowd will readily tolerate someone kicking-at & criticizing them,
  but not the holding up of a mirror.”
       “Why you reckon that is?”
            “What are you  --  an imbecile!”
       (Note: “tolerate” could easily be replaced with: “enjoy”.)
The redundancy of thought’s harangues you might try to explain
as its desire to make its point clear --   only thing is:
since it is talking only to itself  --  what’s the problem?!
    Consciousness & The Captaining Of Your Ship:
    In man’s routine state  --  you are asleep at the wheel.
  “Man overboard!  --   Man overboard!”     --    “Yeah --  don’t you WISH!”
One man has a suffering-requisite  --  which he never fails to meet!
(A man’s kind of man, wouldn’t you say.)
    To be just a, regular-guy  is to be proud that you’re just  --  a regular guy.
    And one man says: “Early on I found it funny that me and everyone else
    seemed to be living in some sort of mental dream world –
    but now that my eyes are at least partially unstuck,
    I can see the self-protective hostility behind humor,
    and have tried to turn my back on it to keep from helping support
    my brain’s sensation of the self that needs such specious defense.”
                                     (And his mother notes: “Ain’t Hubert a real case !”)
Without repetitious thoughts, there are no leg irons to the past.
    Men got the idea for churning butter until it turns into petrified butter
    from observing their own minds at work.
One man’s recipe for dealing with repetitious thought is:
“Never look where they want you to look.”
    Commonly do those who had a close physical brush with death say that
    the experience has --  “permanently changed their life!” --
    (obviously such brushes do not cure men from lying).