*image by Ben Harubin

 

One man offered a deal to his thoughts,
"I won't talk to you if you don't talk to me."

One man had a splinter in his finger which, despite constant effort,
he was unable to completely remove.
Then someone told him the correct approach was to just leave it alone,
and that it'd eventually work itself to the surface and be gone for good.

The children's rooms were upstairs,
the old folks lived below.

One man tried to invent a whole new sense of reality,
fresh for himself, every day.

The cortical brain is to the instinctive brain
as a philosopher riding on the shoulders of a runner.

Thoughts And The Mind:
Words written on an invisible blackboard – which result
in the blackboard believing that it exists.

From a slightly shifted view, civilization can be seen as an artificial
(that is, not biologically provided) means of defense for, and ultimately
conquest by, the less-than-physically-preeminent -- man.