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The Plans For Putting Eyes/I's On The Ends Of Periscopes
 DECEMBER 11, 2004                                                              © 2004: JAN COX



Says one man: “If you’re going to keep yourself on track,
every day you have to come up with a whole new bag of private razzle-dazzle.”
 
 

As he lay in bed looking at the sleeping naked body of the woman who so enthralled him, a man mused: “And it's nothing but flesh  –
and yet it is not her flesh that excites me, but MY hormones.”
(Compare this to consciousness and the thoughts that therein appear.)
 
 

How Words Can Lead To Exciting New Worlds Of Adventure.
After opening a restaurant he named: Evan's House Of Griddlecakes,
and discovering how often people called it: House Of Girdlecakes,
one man began serving up grill fried women’s foundation garments.
(Compare with some people’s notion of what constitutes, success.)
This e-mail just in: “Sir: Though some of your stories do make me laugh,
I do not understand why   –  since I find none of them actually funny.  Yours,” etc.
 
 

Taking a cue from tv news anchors: on days when he didn’t want to appear,
one man would announce that today he was: “Off on special assignment.”
 
 

If you want to see someone who has no conception of what consciousness is
capable of, look at those who, after relaying some human incident they find curious say: “You couldn’t make this stuff up.”
 
 

Dialogue.
“What’s the difference between a novelist and a historian?”
    “What’s the difference between a man with a dumb question
      and a dumb man with a question.”
 
 

Just to put his automatic-consciousness on edge, one guy (in an off-hand kind of way) likes to periodically shout out: “Hot tumors!  –   get your hot tumors right here!”
 
 

One man's advice: “If you can ever draw a bead on either of ‘em  –  shoot ‘em!”
 
 

An Example Of Criticism On The Cutting Edge.
A critic in his review of a book criticizing another critic’s earlier review of the work.  (You can’t make this stuff up.            Oops.)
 
 

“Which is better: being alive, or not thinking about the fact that you’re dying?”
    “But that’s unfair: one of them is like losing something you can never find again.”
“Yeah, but it's not as bad as finding something that you can then never be rid of.”
 
 

Although proverbial wisdom holds that you cannot talk your way into heaven:
seating at mrs. sprat’s table is gained strictly via fat.
Only the coin unique to a particular realm will gain you entry thereto.
 
 

How Mind Works.
You can announce to consciousness that you are weary of talking about it
and are going to begin talking about emotions,
then simply plug in the word, emotions where consciousness would normally be,
continue talking about consciousness and it will never catch on.
 
 

At the cellular level: everything is known (that is):
everything is known that CAN be known (more precisely):
everything that Life can know about itself in this Universe.
 
 

How Neurons Can Navigate When Faced With The Incoming Tide Of Hormones.
“The main advantage I see to being an octopus,” said an octopus,
“is that when you say: ‘Bite my tentacles’ it carries more weight than when said by
a clam for instance.”
 
 

If you live in the city: it is your duty to do whatever you feel it is your duty to do.
 
 

Since he couldn’t bring his self to hate his own clumsiness, one man instead despised the objects into which he bumped.
(“Hey,.” snarled consciousness, “you don’t fool me  –  you’re back talking about me again somewhere in all that.”)
 
 

Things can go up and things can go down, but no on expects them to go sideways.
 
 

From a human perspective you could say that at the pre-conscious,
fauna and flora level, Life is fatalistic about its position in this Universe,
but after consciousness  --  it is a quite different story.                    (Ponder that, if you like.)
 
 

Ordinary consciousness brings the sensation of knowing more than you know,
perhaps more than you can ever know (least under its stewardship).
 
 

Said one man’s Yellow Circuit: “The worst part of making a decision is
wondering whether you made the best decision.”
 
 

Being more awake is sort of like making all the green lights on a long drive.
 
 

Everybody fits in a mold  –   even those who believe they don’t.
 
 

Nothing is as comforting as the familiar  --
and nothing as uncomfortable as the unfamiliar    (if you have a Yellow Circuit).
 
 

After hearing someone comment (regarding a debate between two people over who was the oldest, one of them with a birth certificate, and the one claiming seniority without):  “The leading cause of extreme longevity is
not knowing when you were born,” a man was moved to muse:
“And the primary cause of believing you are extremely enlightened
is not realizing how stupid you are.”
 
 
 

Introductory Comments That Could Be Made Concerning The Aim.
Man is distracted but through certain efforts can focus;
man is confused but through certain efforts can be certain;
man is cloudy eyed but through certain efforts can develop clear vision;
man by nature wants to believe --  a few however, can know.
 
 

J
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

While you're in the dark, the whole thing seems like a shot in the dark  --  but just you wait.
 
 
 
 
 
 

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