*image by Ben Harubin

 

Being of ordinary mind is in continually believing
that the latest idiocy will be the last idiocy.

An elder brother said to a younger, "I guess it's easy enough for one man
to tell another man to wise up, to get smart, to wake up."
To which the younger replied, "But didn't it require that there be two people
for one of them to ever have awakened in the first place?"
And the elder "bro" responded that one man simply talking to himself via the
way men normally do in their unfocused thinking could serve (and still so)
the same purpose.

(And as was not unknown in this particular familial setting, both of the
siblings experienced simultaneous wishes that their father's sperm had been
more selective [or at least not as bountiful].)

A man went on a visit to a renowned mystic, carrying with him the question,
"What happens after death?"
And the mystic replied, "I don't know."
And the man was dumbfounded, but eventually sputtered, "But that cannot be,
you are known throughout the land to be the most enlightened man alive."
"You cannot have answered me truthfully."
And the mystic said, "You're right, the true answer is NOBODY knows."

(A response that was still unsatisfying to the mind of the questioner...
but what else is new?)

An awakened man in Helsinki
still knows nothing of Hades.

More from our Thoroughly Despicable Dictionary:
Thoughts: The imaginary ills of an illusionary body.

After being told "Let that be a lesson to you!" one kid thought,
"Hell, why not let everything be a lesson to me?...at least once."

(I don't know about you, but the kid addin' the part about "at least once"
made it for me.)