*image by Ben Harubin

One guy's latest view of the whole affair:
"Living the life of a thoughtful human on this planet is like being on the beach,
and someone has wandered off and left a radio playing next to where you're lying."

On the quiz show "Dumb," who would be the winner, that is, who would be the
dumbest?
The person who thinks that they're dumb?
The person who thinks that they're intelligent?
The person who thinks that they're intelligent and other
people are dumb? Or the host? -- for even being a party to it all?

"Daddy, are they still reading news about the mind and they've just changed the terms?"
"Son, I believe that, based on that, I'll buy a vowel."
"Gee, that's great, Dad -- here's a 'u.'"
"Har, har, and here's a 'u' to you too, son."
And with that, the bartender told 'em both to get the hell out...of his mind.

A reporter visited a mystic and said, "I understand that you won't do interviews."
To which he replied, "More precisely is that I can't do interviews."
And the reporter said, "Wait, if we are trying to be more precise, then shouldn't
it be that you won't do interviews -- because you clearly could."
And the mystic replied, "No, you do not understand." "The reality of it most
precisely put is that I cannot do interviews. For no one awake can, without
putting their state in jeopardy."

To understand what the enlightened think of as a "metaphor," you must take
anything you hear regarding two or more people as having occurred in the
mind of one.

A speaker declared, "That unique inner world, available only to man,
depends entirely on thought!"
And someone in the audience muttered aloud, "So, that's what they're calling
bullshit nowadays, huh?"

There was once a man who had two homes, both of which offered their own
joys -- but he (for some unknown reason) began to wonder if there was not
someplace somewhere just in between the two where he might reside more
comfortably.