*image by Ben Harubin

One "surefire" normalcy test is whether you believe
that you could be any dumber.

And now, The Stock Report:
When hope finds itself in unfamiliar surroundings, and is unsure what to do,
it will often change its name to "assumption."

And one man who'd several times stood unusually close to the edge of
how-things-appear, but who'd not stepped over, mused, "I wouldn't mind so much
the idea of 'mind death' if I knew that after that I'd become a Shriner and go on a
lot of out-of-town conventions, and could race all around on a miniature motorcycle."

And now, The Final Scores:
The grand prize in religion's bingo game is Life Eternal –
I mean the PROMISE of life eternal, while the attempt to kill and then resurrect oneself
has no payoff that I can tell you about.

Sitting alone, one man said:
"I'm sick of it! -- thoroughly disgusted and sick of it!"
And was simultaneously aware (to himself) that he would not have been in such a position had he never started all this in the first place.
...And a lady at a table 'bout halfway back shouted out, "Okay, first place! Now that's more like it! Even if there is no grand prize, at least you can hand out a first place!"
(It's great to so easily satisfy a customer.)

Only people who have not the slightest understanding of life
fear being fooled or mislead -- those-who-know know that it's already too late.