A
lad asked his dad:
“Why
can men make their telling someone what they should NOT be doing
sound
insightful and valid,
yet
not the same with trying to detail what they SHOULD be doing?”
“As
the old salt said: ‘The threat of beaching is easy to see;
the
art of sailing, a skill difficult to define'.
Hatten
down the batches, boy! --
a
potentially disrupting, thus enlightening nor’easter is barreling down
on us!
Praise
be to thee dear Poseidon
for the unexpected bounty on yond horizon.”
The
thing about the man-who-knows (distinctive from other mythologies) is that
he creates his own
horizons -- over which all that actually bountifies a man must
come.
“So,
pa pa, the home seas for which the certain man initially searches
turns
out to be those that have always been there beneath him,
but
whose actions and actual location he alone has discovered?!”
“And
you could further say that the revenge of the certain man’s Athena is that
of: private line-of-sight over the fleet’s meandering one;
beaching
is not a possibility when you never forget the beach.”
(The lad later
had to take a nap, this amount of metaphoring being a bit much for a boy
his age.)
Everything
men say and write concerning matters with no materiality
is
not to inform but to entertain;
Buddha,
Plato, Jesus, Descartes, Darwin, Marx & Freud,et al
were
just entertaining men’s minds --
entertaining
them with the notion that they could change their temperament.
Once
you see this, you realize that at the core of all fiction, all religious,
political, psychological, & historical writings is the common entertaining
notion that men can undergo a transformation whereby what they are temperamentally
by nature,
is
changed.
Turn
from the Science
section in a library:
every
other book there presents this one idea,
ergo
is the certain man left to become his own depository of edification.
More
Re Temperament & Thought.
“Okay
-- rolling!”
“We’re sitting on top of a gold mine!”
“Cut!
(Mumble, mumble, mumble) -- let’s try
it again; okay -- action!”
“Everyone’s behind us on this.”
“Cut
(Mumble, mumble, mumble)
-- still not quite it; one more take; and -- action!”
“You’re probably wondering why I called you
all here today.”
“Cut!
Somebody get pituitary on a quick re write: we haven’t got forever!”
“I do!”
On
one world there is an unauthorized radio station which commonly broadcasts
the
news just before it happens;
those
who accidentally pick up the station, don’t like it one little bit.
And
one man who could readily think of the most extraordinary things
was
accused of being a “space alien,” and replied: “More like a temporal
one.”
The
seas go up -- the seas go down, but the ocean never moves.
“Pater
dearest, thinketh ye that the discourser speaketh not of ships and seas,
but
of thoughts and feelings?”
A
man-who-knows doesn’t try to sing with the Spinners....
.......not
when he has a sore throat........and can’t sing to begin with;
a
man-who-knows doesn’t try to sing with the Sirens......
not
when he’s abandoned the apocalyptic songbook.......
and
no longer has anything to sing about publicly anyway.
Feelings
have incomparably better, and longer memories than thoughts --
no contest,
but
they must call on thoughts if they want to talk about them.
A
father told a son: “When someone offers suggestions on how you could better
live
your life, remember this: a man who doesn’t understand what
he is doing --
doesn’t
understand what you
are doing.”
For
this reason, in one kingdom penguins are prohibited from offering flying
lessons.
(“Sure
not where we live,
huh Pa?!”)
A
man-who-knows doesn’t try to turn mud into gold,
but
does try to turn himself into a creature who permits mud to be mud
sans
any thought from him concerning it being otherwise
(which,
you might like to know, accomplishes the same thing regarding what
he is).
(“Why
yes -- thank you -- I would
like knowing that.”)
There
was one man who would often say that his number one concern was:
“looking
out for his self,”
and
one day, an unexpected, sardonic voice (apparently from his self) said:
“And
-- Wow! -- am I the better for it.”
Pending
Moral: if you are on that extraordinary expedition,
you
cannot expect appreciation from any of the landscape features you pass.
You
could say that a religious man’s thinking is ruled by a theocracy,
a
political person’s by an autocracy,
while
a man-who-knows’ thinking is more like an anarchy in exile.
While
hanging around the downtown, a father said to a son:
“It’s
hard to know what other people are thinking if YOU’RE not actually thinking.”
And
in a newly discovered, old part of the city museum was found
A
man-who-knows’ memory of his personal life goes back no farther than
the
upcoming instant.
Another
in our series of: The Obvious Made Even
Obviouser.
If
you want to, get-somewhere
in life -- travel! -- go somewhere!
As
certain men throughout history who’ve gone ahead have said:
“Hey
-- we’re going on ahead.”
J
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