April 5, 2003                                                                           © 2003: JAN COX
 
 

Though now never heard,
it says that Zeus created this entire universe, with all its stars and galaxies  --
and Earth, with all its different people and diverse personalities
just as props into which to place and irritate this one man who, for some reason,
had caught his attention in another reality --
the punch line turns out to be that you IS dat man.
 
 
 
 
 

Some people clearly enjoy writing to say that they have discovered ideas that
seem to them similar to ones reported on here, from other pens, from other times,
which apparently allows them to then joyfully dismiss what is said here
as being irrelevant, or some sort of fraud.
 
 
 
 
 

Not uncommonly do men say:
the older you get  --   the wiser you become;
also not uncommonly:
the older men get   --  the stupider they become.
 
 
 
 
 

Note how life must accommodate itself to physical conditions,
while conditions don’t do anything;
note how conscious forms of life can rearrange physical conditions to better suit them, and conditions still don’t have to do anything other than be passive & compliant (although sometimes [from a human view] they do seem to bite back).

      “Pa pa --  has your mind ever tried to: bite-you-back?”
             “Son, if it doesn’t  --  you aren’t doing TheThing right.”
 
 
 
 
 

Trying to believe in God is men unwittingly trying to have confidence in their mind;
those who insist they have full faith in God
obliquely admit they have insufficient faith in their mind,
                             (those who believe in awakening  --  do).
 
 

The desire to be fascinating gives a feeling of excitement to ordinary men,
but a thalamusache to the rebel;
wanting to be known is the attempted substitute for not knowing what man is about  --   for not having an informed, individual self of your own.
 
 
 
 
 

Said a father to a son:
“Criticism is not the sole silliness  --
one man’s mere reviewing of another man’s work also fits the bill.”

.........“Pa pa, I’ve always wondered: who is this Bill on whom so much seems to fit?”
 
 

An ordinary man can only speak knowingly on the physical world,
all he says about other realms is gibberish;
only the certain man could speak meaningfully about man’s intangible world,
(though there is no reason that he should  --
since there is nothing to be said about it  --  well,
nothing that other men could comprehend
[see, it's mostly impossible to talk about something insubstantial
without it then seeming to ordinary minds to have substance;
once you tell a child there is a Tooth Fairy  --  you’ve created a monster --
two, to be precise: the Tooth Fairy, and a human who believes there IS one.])

Ordinarily wired people who are suitably civilized are exemplified by those whose purchases are determined by what is on sale, rather than any need,
or even notable desire they have for an item;
this ingrained posture applies not only to physical goods, but ideas as well;

In a private manner,
no way hostile toward the standard structure of humanity’s collective life,
the certain man’s, family-values are confined entirely to himself.
 
 
 
 
 
 

A son asked a father: “What to you is hyper funny?”
“Acting: ordinary people attempting to portray ordinary people;
the fact is that ordinary people themselves can’t pull it off –
which makes actors straining to pretend to,
an unwitting source of absolute ridiculousness.....(if you can see it.....which be warned,
                             will ruin your movie-watching life).
 
 
 
 
 
 

While reading, a man stopped and pondered:
“This science writer says the many rhythms going on in the brain’s neurons are tied to man’s interest in music, rather than noting they must be the source OF music;
why do not men ordinarily see such matters from this perspective
instead of the other way around?”
 
 

*For the man-who-knows: the worst is always yet to come     ----     for everyone else.