*image by Ben Harubin

 

 

 

From our private "Field Guide & Spotter's Handbook":
How to identify a "Special Person" -- they're an idiot.

A man asked a mystic, "Is there really such a thing as "'Secret Knowledge'?"
"Yes," he replied.
And the man said, "Is it secret because it can't be put into words?"
"Yes," replied the mystic.
And the man said, "Then I'll bet that it's just lying out in the open all around us, isn't it?"
"Yes," the mystic replied.
And the man squinted a quizzical eye and said, "Is 'yes' all you can say?"
"Yes, yes, and more yes," he replied.
In years to come, as the man would look back on this conversation and attempt to
extract all profit possible therefrom, he'd wonder why the mystic in his final comment
included the words "...and more..."?

It takes a lot of directions to suit the eternally lost,
while but a few for those terminally sick of being displaced.

Somewhere, a bit down the line, one guy paused momentarily to muse,
"Man, I wish there'd a'been some 'secret knowledge'. Maybe it'da helped me with
my assault on 'secret ig'nernce.'"

The sign posted on that strange beach declared:
"Collectively We Drown -- Individually We Swim...(If At All)."

One man measure what he refers to as his "progress" like this,
"I am no longer deceived, deprived, or angry at the world,
I am simply a weak, lazy, distracted lardass, incapable,
or else indisposed, to be otherwise."

Question: How do all metaphysical lies begin?
With such words as "there are two types of men," or "there are three forms of reality,"
or "there are four great Truths" (and so on along such divisionary lines).

Shortcut To Madness:
One cow instructing other cows.