*image by Ben Harubin

 

 

Everything that's going on is going on in two separate ways:
if it is really going on, then it is going physically; but if men
think it to be going on, then it is also doing so in their minds.
Two separate things, not just "different" but separate, and a
distinction that must be recognized for freedom to be realized.

While all of the other creatures collected eating beans, there was on one planet a creature
who began to also gather invisible beans, or as the first-noted group referred to them, "nonexistent
legumes," anyway this second-mentioned creature took up the habit of collecting what he called "beans,"
but which no one (including him) could see or eat.
Well sir, I think from just this bit of information you can put the conclusion to this little story.
I mean, where it's headed and what its obvious moral will be couldn't be plainer, now could it?
(That is, if you'd pay attention and quit playing with those beans.)

On one world, the sole health fact extant is the following:
"If you think about illness, you'll never be well -- never!"

 

Meanwhile, back here on Earth:
If heartless is
as words define,
then those concerned
dream lemmings fly.

The speaker yelled out to the crowd, "What do most people talk about?"
And they yelled back, "Themselves!"
And the speaker yelled at them again, "And what's the only thing most people
seem qualified to talk about?"
And the crowd yelled back again, "Themselves!"
And then the speaker screamed at them, "And what does this show that they
know about themselves?"
And then the crowd was stumped!

A boy said to his father, "Do humans ask too many questions?"
"Not so much a matter of too many questions, as too many answers."