*image by Ben Harubin

When one man heard about out-of-body experiences,
he said,
"Hell, every time I think, I have one."

In the ER, the cry was continually heard, "Code Blue! Code Blue!"
And one day someone asked what it meant. No one knew for sure,
but since they were in the emergency room, everyone felt certain
that it had something to do with an emergency.

 

Under some conditions,
when the secondary's words
try to explain the primary's acts,
the speaker can appear insane.

Even if you don't know what's going on, a quiet man will appear to,
and even if you don't know what's going on inside of you,
if you'll stop talking about it,
you will.

A courier from court came to a mystic with a message, "The king is upset with you."
And when the calm one failed to respond, the courier pressed him, "Don't you want to know why?"
And the mystic finally spoke,
"If someone is upset with me, it is their problem, not mine."
A response that did not satisfy the messenger, who countered, "Well, that may be an attitude typical for one of your position, but let assure you most strongly, His Majesty is extremely upset with you, and it could cause you problems."
And the mystic closed the conversation by saying,
"If I let someone's being upset with me cause me problems, I deserve the problems."

Whatever an ordinary man thinks is essential is essential for him;
to be "ordinary" is to think that anything is essential.