Men’s Feelings About Life Not Based on Acts but Facts
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01/23/1991
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Summary
#759 Jan 23, 1991 – 1:08
Notes by TK
Kyroot to :15. A man’s expectations, thoughts, feelings about life are based not on experience (acts) of others but on facts (reports) about same. What would be the difference if it were based on acts rather than facts? There is a very useful center to realization of how little one’s life is driven by acts/experience.
Ask yourself: TWE has Life arranged man to be so dependent upon info-facts (“news”)? What purpose do facts serve in their effect on man’s intellect? A Real Revolutionist bases his behavior on acts of others, not reports. Be annoyed (if you must) over behavior of another rather than reports of behavior. A prime example of facts following acts: telling “what kind of guy I am”.
AKS
08/24/90-(1)
and Kyroot said:
One ole man
after many years of entertaining and instructing his kid
with stories of his earlier exploits
sat the lad down and said,
“Now that you’re old enough to wear your hat on sideways
you’re old enough to know that I just made up
all that stuff I told you happened to me.”
The nipper calmly removed his headpiece and said,
“That’s okay Pop, I just made up listening to it.”
08/24/90-(1.5)
and Kyroot said:
(Some more stuff to study for
those of you enrolled in the Stuff Study Course):
No matter what those cheap City proverbs say –
Men ONLY preach to the converted.
08/24/90-(2)
and Kyroot said:
The head acrobat of one circus when training new members
showed he had no time or words to waste.
He told all his charges, “Timing is all a matter of timing.”
08/24/90-(2.5)
…and Kyroot said:
After he first heard the term “self serving,” this one poor chap commenced to wear out
three pairs of legs searching for whom this might apply.
08/24/90-(3)
…and Kyroot said:
A gentleman of some success and wealth
over in the City decided to bequeath a sizable sum
to his college’s library, but
on the strict condition that no future
bibliographical treatment done of his life
EVER be filed under the category of, “Bad Fiction.”
08/24/90-(3.5)
…and Kyroot said:
After all – if a man knew where to look, he wouldn’t have to look in the first place.
08/24/90-(4)
..and Kyroot said:
The local “Occult Expert” of one City says that people from other planets don’t have to go to the bathroom…
…he adds, “That’s why they’re from other planets.”
08/24/90-(4.5)
… and Kyroot said:
Although it is not always noted
I should caution you that the offer of any really NEW info is for “A limited time only.”
08/24/9045)
and Kyroot said:
When processes are made “thing-specific” polarities can seem to trade places.
,08/24/90-(5.5)
_and Kyroot said:
Over in the soup aisle of the grocery store a chap approached me and said he’d decided to name his own mental operations, “Fruit Loops,” because, he reasoned, it didn’t make any sense and was therefore appropriate.
….(A woman hiding in a stack of paper towels added, rather testily, that all we needed now was a “Lite” version of Nutra-Sweet.)
08/24/90-(6)
…and Kyroot said:
One intellectually captioned chap in the City began to set aside a few moments each day for what he called his, “irony time”….(he now has no hours left.)
08/24/90-(6.5)
—.and Kyroot said:
The ordinary would find it extremely difficult to remain sane without being serious.
(Editor’s Note: For deposit in
“T.S.T.L.” – the
“To Say The Least” file.)
08/24/90-(7)
…and Kyroot said:
One man said,
“Just the older I get
the less certain I am
that I should take credit.”
08/24/90-(7.5)
…and Kyroot said:
Over on another world
on a Monday,
one of the inhabitants stood and declared, “I have discovered that my personal
thinking abilities are directly tied to my hormones,” and
his fellow creatures seemed so amazed at his singularity that they forthwith erected a fine statue in his honor.
(Did I mention that the name
of this planet is, Totalus Sarcasticus.)
08/24/90-(8)
..and Kyroot said:
At exactly twelve-o-one on his twenty-first birthday
the kid of one ole sore head was handed a fake gold watch
(well, it looked fake), but his pater told him the real essence of the gift was
carried in the inscription on its back which said,
“The Day May Come When You Will
‘Know The Truth’ and The Truth Will Make You Say – ‘So What?'”
08/24/90-(8.5)
–and Kyroot said:
On this other neighboring world they have a bazaar where you can sell your guilt;
only trouble is – they make you buy some more.
….(You gotta admit folks,
there’s some WEIRD worlds out there.
…[how come every time I say something like this all you start looking around?]).
08/24/90-(9)
and Kyroot said:
One guy had what he called his, “Little Theory.”
He only had it just for a little while.
His friends subsequently would refer to it as his,
“Just For A Little While Theory.”
(Have you noticed the increasing number of
people who use the word “theory” when what they actually mean
would be more properly reflected by such terms as, ‘idea,’ or ‘notion.’
[Of course I guess I could be mistaken, but that is my
the – I mean, idea].)
but none-the-more all of that,
back to his “Little Theory.”
He said that every time you have a thought
you should wiggle your eyebrows.
08/24/90-(9.5)
…and Kyroot said:
A man with his own return address writes to say that he believes once all the votes are counted…
08/24/90-(10)
..and Kyroot said:
Those who bring manure will accept some when they leave.
08/24/90-(10.5)
…and Kyroot said:
All the generals of this one State got together and got the king to Officially Announce that, “Sensitive plans are no plans at all.” (Some of the generals didn’t believe the king’s heart was in it – the rest didn’t care.)
(After hearing what he said seems like a “plethora of such stories,” this one viewer observes that it’s a good thing the human mind is immune to militant conditions.)
08/24/90-(11)
..and Kyroot said:
One father told his kid that his advice for life was the same as for the track – Never bet on a horse named “See You Later.”
08/24/90-(11.5)
and Kyroot said:
Outside a City bakery I overheard one man tell another that his main complaint with their religion was that it’s “too sticky.”
08/24/90-(12)
…and Kyroot said:
In all up-to-date cities, the less substantial be a thing the more it must be talked-up.
08/24/90-(12.5)
…and Kyroot said:
In an attempt to better exemplify the passionate power of human irritation over the cold hold of mere reason, this one fellow who hated socks with a violent intensity, cut off his feet.
(That’ll show ’em, Shorty.)
08/24/90-(13)
…and Kyroot said:
A fellow approached me down in the subway and said he’d always feared that, “Too brilliant a’ thinkin’ would make your lights go out.”
08/24/90-(13.5)
…and Kyroot said:
The king loudly proclaimed, “None are innocent,” and his primo Prime Minister whispered in his ear, “I’m sure you mean ‘None’, with one regal exception, Your Grace,” and the monarch whispered back, “I see you still enjoy having your job and intestines intact.”
08/24/90-(14)
… and Kyroot said:
Uptown there was this other guy who read book reviews just so he wouldn’t have to actually read the books. He thought this was pretty slick until he realized that his partner discussed literary matters with him just so he wouldn’t have to even read the book reviews.
08/24/90-(15)
..and Kyroot said:
In one City the headlines of the afternoon edition blared, “Things Appear To Get Worse”
….(Did I mention that the name of the paper is the Dickhead Gazette?)
08/24/90-(15.5)
…and Kyroot said:
One guy’s partner refused to testify against him;
he was much praised;
he dismissed the attention.
Claimed there wasn’t all THAT much to say about him anyway.
(Wayward Moral: If you ARE going to be a
“Stranger in a strange land” it costs no more to be REALLY strange…er.)
08/24/90-(16)
…and Kyroot said:
Medical Up-Date File H-24 (For Your Eyes Only): You know that you’re still alive and sweating as long as there remains the urge to tell strangers about your latest misadventure.
08/24/90-(17)
…and Kyroot said:
Then there was this other man who all the time would say,
“It’s according to how you look at it, it’s all according to how you look at it.” And all his other blind friends thought this was a riot.” Especially when he’d say it around the deaf.
08/24/90-(17.5)
and Kyroot said :
Late last week several viewers got pen and paper,
got together and attempted to stage a “gang write” (they were easily dispersed).
08/24/90-(18)
…and Kyroot said:
One sports oriented park philosopher cried out to the crowd,
“At least one thing about being quarterback is
that you can’t be ‘off-side’.” But just then a beheaded monarch passing by retorted, “I say ole man – tell ME about it.”
A8/24/90-(18.5)
—and Kyroot said:
One man’s observation: “Some people who’re dumb
won’t admit it.”
…..(That’s okay,
I already thanked him for both of us.)
08/24/90-(19)
…and Kyroot said:
After sitting quietly in the sun
for some time on a park bench,
the chap next to me finally spoke
after a lengthy parade of passers-by had just passed by,
“You ever notice as people get older
they begin to look more and more like themselves?”
08/24/90-(19.5)
_and Kyroot said:
Then there was this other fellow who just insisted on always “having the last word” – ESPECIALLY with himself.
08/24/90-(20)
and Kyroot said:
One City was so cautious
that no citizen could be issued a library card without proof of their rabies vaccination.
(I pass along this piece of info
assuming that all of you already know that one of the most dangerous places a person can be bitten is in the Reference Department.)
08/24/90-(21.5)
and Kyroot said :
First guy says,
“If anticipation was any more fun I’d die,”
and a second guy says,
“If anticipation was any worse I’d wish I was dead.”
And a by-stander on the side line anticipations whispered,
“Those bastards ain’t seen NOTHING yet.”
08/24/90-(22)
…and Kyroot said:
Okay, okay, quieten down – announcement time: “There are things that occur in the minds of men that no one will ever understand.”
…..(That’s not true, but “Boy!” do men’s minds love to hear that shit.)
08/24/90-(22.5)
and Kyroot said:
A Revolutionist’s continual attempt to do the impossible– with no consideration of the odds – results in the word “impossible” being writ less in a continuous strip of neon, and more by separate, incandescent bulbs.
108/24/90-(23)
…and Kyroot said:
Pointing to his head
one guy said,
“In these wilds
intellectual rutting season is year round.”