*image by Ben Harubin

A father asked a son, "Are you cold?"
"I am if it's cold," he answered.

 

A Quick Survey Of Some Of Man's Activities As Pertains To
"Not-Getting-Anywhere" With Yet Certain Pleasure In Thinking About It:
The brilliance of ritual,
the excitement of games,
the camouflage of failure to achieve the goal.

One man was absolutely glabberfasted to finally and conclusively realize
that in the world of thought anything can be called -- ANYTHING! But wait,
it gets better: it also doesn't matter what you call anything -- it makes no
difference whatsoever.

(You might want to note that only in regard to material matters is this not
so. [Seems pretty obvious and straightforward, yet 'tis right here that
those-who-are-realized and those who are not part permanent company].)

After having heard, and reflecting considerably on, the phrase "distortion
caused by comment," one man concluded that the supreme example of same
occurred surely each time a man said the word I, or thought of himself as
having a self.

Simple-cell creatures can be blinded by a finger to the eye –
more complex ones by an I to the eye.

Two things run men's lives: hormones, and neurons (but one doesn't).
Two things run men's lives: the mind, and the body (but one doesn't).
Two things run men's lives: the thoughts they think, and the lives they lead, but--
"Wait up, do any two things really run men's lives...well?"