Report From The Great White Way Of Dreams And Other Team Sports.
When the announcement-come apology was made that the star of the show
was indisposed and that the lead role would be filled by a substitute actor,
and a disgruntled murmur rolled through the audience, an usher mused:
“Let’s see: it was back about ‘73 that I realized the real me was not going to show up, and that my role was going to be permanently played by a substitute,”
then surveying the unsettled crowd, further reflected: “Hell, everyone should face it: the whole world’s a bunch of substitutes.”
 

A father mentioned to a son: “(Putting my comments for a moment
in a religious setting): the problem is not believing in god,
but believing in a god that other men created;
the substitution of grape juice for wine can spell the nutritional doom of
a would-be rebel;
only what you understand from your own resources IS understood  --
all else that your mind seems to know is but an understudy for the real star.”
 
 
 
 

While doing sit ups at home, one man began hearing cracking sounds beneath him,
and was annoyed at the thought of having to have his hardwood floor redone,
only to discover that it was not the maple slats making the noise as he bent his back.
Moral: it is difficult to see something when you’re standing on it,
a fact (by the way) lost at the greatest cost on those seeking to edify their mind
WITH their mind.
An old dog can be freshly instructed  --   but not by his fellow old dogs.

Another Seemingly Insightful Proverb, Refurbished For The Special Use Of The Few.
In the land of the blind, a one eyed man is not seen,
(don’t know what could be more obvious than that!)
    “But dear pa pa; the original version makes the one eyed man out to be
      in a superior position  --  not unrecognized!?”
“Si, but this telling nudges the alert to consider the connection between
having superior perception and not having others aware thereof.”
    “Man!  --  that could be a tricky one!”
“Which ones drool-producing aren’t!”
 
 
 
 

When one man heard another accused of: going-through-a-phase,
he spread in his head: “Everyone’s: going-through-a-phase  --   eternally.
The no-refunds distinction ‘tween man and all other creatures is that
they cannot translate their moodiness into abstract expression.”
     “What you’re saying is: animals can’t talk about their temperament.”
“We should do a comedy act together.”
 

The Thing About Laughter And Non Physical Illness.
It may be possible to die while laughing  --  but nothing of a lesser nature.
 
 

Ordinary men ask god for help in restoring their health;
the certain man cuts out the imaginary middle man,
and deals with the situation directly:
his brain’s consciousness trying to get its non conscious operations to do-their-job.

One man’s cortex said to his immune system: “We could be a comedy act,”
to which it replied: “From my view: you already are,” which caused the cortex to think: “I could say the same about you --  ‘cept you wouldn’t get it,”
and right there, dear theatre goers, in those four words, is all you need see for the puzzling plot of man’s drama to become crystalline clear: "Cept-you-wouldn’t-get-it.’”
    “That’s five words!”
See --  you don’t get it.
 
 
 
 
 

For his youngster’s sitting pleasure, a father reupholstered an ancient proverb:
“To err is not human; to say that humans err  --  that is what is distinctly human,”
and through thus, the lad turned his desk chair into a lat machine.

In the land of the normally blind, all progress not measurable in the material world comes from self censure;
a man can plan and construct a windmill while being filled with nothing but
positive feelings concerning his efforts,
but men cannot create their special intangible world of gods, fame, respect,
and a self-image without the presence of self-condemnation:
progress in the physical world is marked by man as things-getting-better,
and similarly does he judge progress in the incorporeal realm as him getting better;
a hawk’s seeing can be improved? --  a robin’s singing?  --  no,
but neither can they alter their instinctive abilities;
none but man has such a capacity,
and none but he who has unnaturally developed his
knows whether man’s capacity is real or illusory.
Even if you can never leave Paris (yet are born with the irrepressible desire to do so)
it is good to know the truth (if you happen to be one of those mutants
with a taste for such).
    “But should you not also include a comment pertinent to the antipodal possibility?”
Point taken: even if you can get out of Paris --
it is profitable to realize that men are born with the belief that they can,
irrespective of the truth of the matter.
    “That’s not exactly what I was expecting.”
“Such is all effort to flee the City Of Lights.”
 

Important But Overlooked Fact Number Seven.
Ordinary men never notice that all the instructions which your automatically appearing thoughts try to contribute to your understanding are what was expected;
a dead horse expects to be beaten  --  which is why it does not revive him;
what the latent, fully-informed-man needs to know cannot be,
and is not in any fashion whatever  --  what was expected;
indeed, the data he requires is so unlike the customary
there is no way to verbally describe it in words you would expect to hear --
which are the only ones that make sense –
ergo the sparkling situation surrounding the certain man wherein:
only that which is expected  --  makes sense  --  and:
all that is expected is useless to him  --  and:
only that which is expected  --   makes sense  --  and:
that which makes sense only serves to further support the mental status quo.

“Okay students: does everyone have it clearly in their minds
what, ‘change’ actually means?!  --
along with the understanding that a zebra cannot change its own clothes,
but must have outside help  --  not external physical  help,
but self provided internal, intangible assistance and instruction.”
The nascent take on life with which your nervous system was conceived,
and which its thoughts now predictably reflect
must be replaced with ideas from areas in your brain not normally called upon
to provide such: it is: the ultimate, willful  --   substitution--