Take instructions on how to repair your well – but not how to live.
One guy asks: “What do people mean when they say, ‘Such-and-such concern is always in the-back-of-my-mind? Do they actually have some empty, available space in there?”
Historians speak at length about: “The great idea of freedom,” but no attention is ever turned to the question: From whence cometh the accepted concept of man not being free to begin with?!” In other words: What is going on in your consciousness that creates the sensation of you either being free, or not being free. The resolution to this quandary is the key TO final freedom.
Patriotism calls to hormones,|
as does the idea of God to neurons.
Often men are not men, but frightened ducks, and when stressed they seek someone’s shoulder to quack on.
One guy mused: “As bad as we think being asleep is now, what if it’s even worse when you’re dead?”
(Hah! And you said there is too little well-grounded pessimism!)
J.