October 18, 2003                                                                       © 2003: Jan Cox
 
 
 
 

City Psychology Skinned & Fried.
Making-peace-with-yourself does seem like the least you can do.
Second Version.
Making-peace-with-yourself does seem like the least you can do  --
especially since your situation can never be otherwise.
“But how do you justify that with the description I’ve heard here of the human mind as: ‘A wound that never heals?’”

According to one people’s loke fore:
“The awakened man is the gold tooth in god’s smile  --
  ...if there is such a being  --
     ...and if he has dental work."
And within a dozen seconds or so someone said:
“Hold up partner: at first that sounded all right, but if you think about it:
who would want  to be a flashy feature of some deity so low rent that
he has bad teeth?”
The more profitable question would have been:
“Why can anything sound all right  --  until you think about it?”
    “No no, you can’t pull that shit one me:
      when you first hear some things they DON’T sound all right,”
and him bothering to bring this up is proof he would not understand it,

Theology Battered & Baked.
Men have always been demon possessed  --
they just keep changing the word for demon.
You and your thinking can always appear to be a futurist  –
all you need do is keep coming up with new names for yesterday.
(It is a bonus to think of fresh ways of condemning it.)
 
 
 
 

City folk tend to grin like sheep, or scowl like hogs whenever they say something especially dumb, or plagiarized.
“The secret’s in the genes!”
       “Really?”
“There is no secret  --  it’s all out here in the open!”
      “So why can’t I see it?”
“Your genes...........I suppose.”
After some years of investigating the matter, one man now says
that the fact the brain doesn’t bleed should have tipped him off.
 
 
 
 

The Curious Dynamics Of Certain Types Of Movement.
When you’re trying to get away from something,
you can’t see what is holding you as long as you think there is something wrong with whatever it is that might be holding you.
Trimmed Version.
You can’t reach Olympus while something is amiss in Athens.
“Pa pa: is that what’s meant by a hunchback trying to straighten himself up by
carrying around Hugo’s collected works?”
 
 
 
 

Regarding The Nature Of What Men Call Their: Philosophies.
The philosophy of dieters is always different from that of pizza makers.
“Why didn’t you go ahead and say: hormones & neurons
instead of: dieters & pizza makers.”
Would your neurons then have let you as easily hear what was said?
 

Those who long for voices  --  hear voices,
and those who search for signs  --  see signs,
but the certain man wanting an unobstructed view of how things are
does not partake of such illusory assistance the mind projects as being without.
Men who won’t give a particular painting the time of day when it is in their house
will go ga-ga over it if they look out and see it on the sidewalk.
“Pa pa: is this what’s behind everyone in the city believing that everyone else
has a better car than they do, while everybody drives the same model?”

After the plain reality of life initially looked men dead in the eye  --
and they blinked and turned away  --
they then began referring to it as: God, The Creator, The Absolute, and so on,
and while the names are of no importance,
the act of men bestowing them on life is,
in that it moved it a step away from their direct awareness.
The Snake was acceptable enough  --  until Adam’s mind yelled: “SNAKE!  SNAKE!”
 
 

On one world they say: “A man-who-knows-what-is-going-on
has no mind of his own  --  but has the mind of everyone.”
(There’s no profit in visiting a foreign place if you do not grasp their metaphors.)
 
 
 
 

Commercial News.
If the collective is goods  --  the individual is services.
 
 
 
 

Commenting on other people’s thoughts helps keep men from realizing that
they have none of their own.
 
 
 
 

Says one man: “I fear nothing imaginary  --  including my own stupidity & importance.”
“Pa pa: why his redundancy?”
    "The mind’s normal growth in the city is like that of cells: by division."
“Didn’t you leave out: ‘meaningless?’”
    "Oops!  Thanks."
 
 
 
 

Myths, metaphors and all symbolism are like a train that can lay down its own tracks just ahead of itself;
now picture a parallel situation with the certain man and his air-o-plane,
(the omnidirectional spreading of air.)
“Pa pa: is this why you say that everything a man needs to know he can see by
looking through the opening made when he puts his thumb and first finger together.”
 
 

Some of you might be interested to know that what the lad just mentioned
was the very first method devised to Achieve Enlightenment,
but fell out of use due to no one being able to come up with a name for it that sounded sufficiently metaphysical.