*image by Ben Harubin

Through one man's mind ran this wonder:
"Do I run off of thoughts, or off of physical instincts?"
(...All who think should eventually ask themselves such.)

 

There was a man whose home was thoroughly infected by vermin,
but when he'd try to rid himself of the infestation,
he'd never succeed in doing more than driving them from one part of the structure to another,
where they'd wait for a bit and then return to their original site.
After many such futile attempts, the man finally stopped his efforts
And turned his energy to trying to understand how he'd so misjudged the situation...
it being his home...right where he lived and all.

Motto:
It's hell to be a fool and there's no one there but you.

As told by a certain legend, there was once a mystical school which would
ultimately test each of the participants therein by having a person unknown to
them come to them and say that they represented another mystical
organization which had been carefully keeping an eye on them, and due to
their extreme promise and progress wanted to reveal to them that the people
with whom they had been studying, no matter how well-intended, simply did
not have the full story-of and experience-in The True Awakening, and that
they (the other organization) did, (which is why they were able to realize
the shortcomings) and that the time was now right for the person to leave
the lesser teaching and come to the place of real enlightenment.
The product of the test being that those who left revealed that they had
never come to understand the nature of knowledge, or to recognize through
themselves the nature of the knower.

Only those without any understanding of the human mind are
impressed with any other human.

(The follow up, P.S., corollary, punch line, codicil, to this story is:
"I don't know what else to tell you.")

Life On Board

Attention #1: There are no lifeboats.

Attention #2: There is no ocean separate from the ship we're on.

Thank you for your attention -- now you may go back to your dinner.

Looking up at the cool, calm dirt, one man thought:
"I may be dead, but at least now I'm at peace."

...Several people contacted The News before we published this morniing
to ask why we put this item on, and it seems to me that we've been doing this
long enough now that you people would realize that we treat the news
seriously, and do not "put items on" or make fun of them in any other fashion.
No, my friends, but if you wanna look at this in a way that could be useful,
just consider how often the news puts YOU on!