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December
11, 2002
©
2002: JAN COX
Today’s
annoying, partial categorical syllogism:
Those
who do not know what is going on
want
someone to tell them what is.
Everyone
wants someone to tell them what is going on -- except
one man.
People
who think that some particular bit of non physical shit is important
will
fInd that particular bit of shit to be
important.
(Curious note:
even when this is pointed out to them they still see nothing significant
about it.)
A
principal way to tell that you are still distracted and dumb is if you
still spend time
thinking
about how dumb and distracted other people are.
One
man had a rule: he would only think ill of other people when he was feeling
bad.
A
speaker addressed an audience:
“Only
one small area of the brain has a sense of humor --
Hey,
what
are you people grinning at?”
All
human decisions are made on the basis of
inadequate-information –
which
does not bother ordinary men
in
that they have a mistaken sense of whence decisions come.
The
manipulation of language is the forte of the herd,
and
the pianissimo of the individual.
Make
no underestimation: words are magic and can do anything: make elephants
fly,
the
dead arise, the fictitious seem real and the foolish seem intelligent.
(Words and those-who-know
engage in private frivolities that you can’t begin to
imagine!)
The
neat thing about getting a real nasty treatment for a really serious ill
is that you
don’t
think about the ill for wondering if you will survive the treatment.
(Apply this to
trying to awaken -- if you have the nastiness for it.)
The
speaker so spoke:
“Once
you know what is going on
the
challenge then is to keep thoughts meaningfully occupied. Any
questions?”
“Does
this include thinking about yourself personally?”
“Any
more?”
Cows
who have ventured outside the city hate
to
return home.
(Trust you do
not find, hate too strong a word.)
Feelings
are info -- and info without feelings commands little of a
man’s attention;
thus
does the rebel thinker silently embrace the unavoidable poignancies of
life,
and
secretly utilize them in his advantage.
Men
love to say that everyone has a, defining-experience in their life
(a war, a depression,
a catastrophe) --
the
certain man’s (unlike everyone else) is when he realizes
he is conscious.
One
man mused: “I may be coming apart,
but
at least it is in large, manageable pieces.”
Mind’s
primary talent is in making memorable note of deviations from the norm,
various
reactions thereto and their consequences,
and
lastly, the ability to communicate same to others.
Hormones react to circumstances/conditions;
neurons, when operating optimally are responsible for the aforementioned
duties.
While
hormones introduce all subjects and still determine simple survival affairs,
neurons
often have the last say, particularly in matters of civilized-caused complexity;
thus
is a self-referential and apparently closed system within man completed
(which also seems
to reflect an even larger one in which man exists).
Mind
is primed to ponder pictures of potential adversity --
an
activity that on occasions can prove helpful, but which is mostly a useless
exercise.
The
certain man tries to disconnect some of this programming in himself.
There
could be more to ancestor worship than at first seems --
having
to do with unwitting acknowledgement of the continuum of cellular survival.
In
the certain man’s neural world: abandonment is not a negative concept;
just
like a good country singer, city folks: “Stand
by their thoughts” –
the
independent thinker out on the plains has no such fidelity.
Knowing what is going on makes you true only to what is going on.
One
man’s privately understood motto is:
“Dreams
are a terrible thing for a mind to waste.”
Without
dreams of seasonal gods men would have developed no agriculture;
without
dreams of immortality, no medical technology,
and
without the select dream of living-in-a-dream the first certain
man
would
never have conceived of, then discovered a state of increased consciousness.
The
brain's otherwise seemingly useless dreams are in fact the seeds for all
that man has accomplished to his own benefit.
Mind’s
dreams are only a drag when they drag your ability to think --
you
ride the wind or it rides you.
Things
are arranged so that secretly, all cows want to get away from the herd
--
but
not enough to actually try;
a
man is either born with the neural quirk to attempt it, or he is not,
and
nothing will ever occur in herd life to change this.
Clutching
only local escape plans –
even
the most passionate of prisoners offers no real threat.
Cows run in herds,
If,
as men believe, they are responsible for what they think, then a question:
so
if mentally you are your own father: whose sins & errors are you going
to pay for? -- whose can
you.
The extraordinary expansion of one's mental awareness that comes from
independent thinking is in one sense, a form of genetic space travel.
When father & son,
J
JAN'S
DAILY
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