Four soldiers were playing in a field and one of them said:
“My stomach is my greatest adventure,” then another said:
“My genitals are my greatest adventure,” and another said:
“My muscles are my greatest adventure,” and the last one said:
“My thoughts are my greatest adventure,”
and a general who overheard all of this barked:
“I want three of you to band together and kill the fourth…” then after a pause added:
“Or do it the other way around.”
(Obviously a leader who faces up to the inevitable, fatalists are as fatalist do…and of course, same for non-fatalists as well.).
It is considered a compliment to say of an ordinary man that he has, “never stopped learning.” But with an extraordinary man, who has seen what-is-really-going-on, it is a different situation. He learns no more, (there being nothing more to know), but rather: he never stops emptying, un-learning. (“Praise be! I am almost disappeared – but this time, on purpose!”)
Another example of how mankind freely, but unwittingly, reveals its total lack of any meaningful understanding of itself. It is when one of them identifies some particular idea as being of striking significance, and first thing he does after that is start giving a bio of its author’s life. There is no connection between the circumstances of a man’s life and any extraordinary understanding he achieves, (other than the fact he was born a human, same as everyone else).
There is one pair of magical, translational glasses. If through which you look, words are not only seen as discreet entities unto themselves, but angry ones at that! (Angry from their view, at their misuse by man.)
If you support a treaty, it is “words to live by”;
if you want to escape it, it is nothing but “words on paper.”
(Which is all any words are; they are nothing more than the behavior
which men desire to fashion thereby).
J.