*image by Ben Harubin

Some Facts

Fact: One thing always leads to another.
Fact: Only within a closed structure.
Fact: Those within a closed structure can never be aware of the structure's limitations.
Fact: What'd ya expect? -- what'd ya want from me? -- why the hell you wastin' your time
lookin' over there?

A stranger noted to a man, "The truth has no children."
And the man said, "By that, do you mean--"
"By that I mean," said the stranger, "that reality has no sub-realities,
but such a picture is perceived due to men's minds being subdivisions
of a universal, undivided intelligence."
And thus was the man made aware that truth indeed has no children,
in that all realization that comes to a man does so by him giving birth to himself.
(Thus, perhaps, the basis for the man's motto of "don't cut me off in the middle of a--")

On one world you are not considered "fashionably stupid"
unless you are stupid all the time.

Most thinking mens' most pleasurable pastime
is in them thinking about themselves as individuals
of much importance, but for a man who begins to see what life is truly about,
this is all the height of not only folly but costly error as well.

"Papa?"
"Yes?"
"Why do you so commonly use such terms as 'when a man begins to see what life is truly about...rather than 'when a man sees what life is truly about'?"
"Two purposes: one, to satisfy the needs of children who may hear me; and the other,
to pacify me when I'm thinking as a child."
The boy pondered this reply for a moment, then said, "Quite a waste, huh?"
"Quite a waste indeed."

And a man said to his cat,
"It's good that I have you so there's at least one person with whom
I don't have to have these little chats."

And another man who heard it said that "birds of a feather flock to bad weather" thought,
"Even more reason to stay home...alone...in my mother's tree."