True Hobbyist Needs No Audience
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#926 Jan 27, 1992 – 1:03
Notes by TK
Kyroot to :26. If the Neural Revolutionist became an expert in some Secondary Level World subject, to the point he knew exactly where he was, he would find it to be extremely disappointing—a waste of time when the unadorned truth always lay open to view before him. He would be terminally disappointed over becoming an expert on a map to the extent of ignoring the obvious (i.e., that his attempt originally was to complete himself, not become an expert on the meaningless)
Epilogue: 0:56 – J. encourages observers to pursue some creative activity they feel drawn to. It can serve a real purpose tied to This Thing; at least you won’t cheat yourself out of its pleasures and rewards. Pursue a true hobby, w/o need of an audience.
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For the revolutionist, perfunctory secondary resistance is an unrecognized form of suicide.
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While thumbing through a magazine, a guy thought, “Only the forbidden is exciting.” Then it hit him — “Gad zooks! — What if I could move this from the erotic to the intellectual?!!”
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{More city lore: A man who says he’s just as happy being crippled as he is being dumb, has said a lot.}
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Thinking about one thing in the same way too often is akin to sitting on a grapefruit to get your morning juice.
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{Over near life, one man noted, “The difference between justice and revenge is that you don’t have to seek out the former…No sir-ree — not hardly.” …(News Flash — News Flash: In Cityville there has been a rash of seesaw sightings… Flash, Flash.)}
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{…and Kyroot noted: Those who want to back-up are those who believe it’s possible.}
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{…and Kyroot “F.Y.I.’d”: Translation Chart for one journey: When life wants to be aggressive, it calls itself “god”; when it wants to be objective, it calls itself “existence”; and when it wants to seem subtle, it calls itself “being”; (now you’re prepared to go.)}
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{One king protected himself with a fortress of double thick walls, a super wide moat, and a legion of skilled marksmen. He had a brother who protected himself by establishing a multi-layered bureaucracy with many diverse ministers, secretaries, and other officials apparently speaking and thinking for him.}
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{…and Kyroot noted: The Chief of city Police Affairs stated recently, “The peace and tranquility is threatened by those who ‘don’t care’,” and a man’s neural metropolis said to itself, “It is the same here, regarding thoughts.”}
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{More graffiti from an alleged rebel camp: “Just because you don’t keep up with the scores is no proof you can’t enjoy the games.”}
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{And one man writes to Kyroot as though he were addressing a certain part of his own mind — without knowing it: “Sometimes your stories and comments sound homey, safe and friendly, and I’m not at all sure they are so.”}
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One guy was in cahoots with himself.
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{One chap’s “city advice”: “Forget what the highway signs might tell you, sometimes ‘Limited Vision’ is not only acceptable over here, it’s downright necessary.”}
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After much time spent perusing the wise sayings and honorable axioms of his world, one young lad considered the inevitable, built-in restraints of a finite verbal reality as regards its own self-proclaimed intent to escape therefrom, and thought, “A proverb with a point is like a nail in the framework of an uninhabitable house.” (And to re-note what by now should be the “obvious” — to ordinary thinking, the opposite would be just as unaccommodating. [The revolutionist neighborhood still remains somewhere else.])
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One rebel sergeant told a trooper over coffee, “Having to be responsible when you know you’re not is a job only for a revolutionist. Yes, I know that there are those outside the camp who say they believe this about themself, or even as applicable to everybody, but it’s still a job only for a revolutionist.”
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{Another show of how far life’s overall evolution has progressed and an indication of where its present priorities lie is the fact that a man can be forgiven for being dumb as long as he’s ambitious.}
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One man had peccadilloes; his doctor gave him the choice of an ointment or a new career, in politics.
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At the conference, one speaker said, “Those with nothing to write about, write about…”, and he was interrupted by another attendee who said, “Let me finish that for you — ‘Those with nothing to write about — write about themselves’ — am I right?” and the first speaker nodded his admission. Then the interrupter added, “People like you continue to intellectually operate on the skimpy theory that ‘As long as I change my shoes, I can walk forever in my own feet’.”
…..{At an unusual time, in an anomalous place, the participants at one convention went ahead and publicly said why it was that everybody had to wear name tags.}
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{And one ole sorehead told his brother, who was deceased, “Well, as long as I can complain, at least I know I’m alive, Mister Smarty Dead-Britches.”}
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{…and Kyroot noted: Over just that way, a man said, “The best thing about not having a basement is that you don’t ever have to go down there.” …(Unrelated tip: Rats’ll live any where — if they have to. …[Second tip: so will thoughts. (Don’t wait up, there ain’t no third one right now.)])}
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{As a small, interim prize, one local reality asked a guy if he’d like to, “Have the facts,” or, “Get the details”?
…(Some guys have all the luck.)}
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A certain god, in an effort to appear “more humane,” killed a million people in the presence of a thousand others, then to the thousand, he gave each one, one of his cards, shook their hands individually, and told them they could leave. (When you’re a big shot, you can do things like that…whether they work or not.) After hearing this story one man said to the most active part of his brain, “Why can’t you be more like that!”
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{Secretly to himself, this one man ended everything he said with a kind of funny little question mark.}
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As soon as the flashbulbs started popin’, the bands started playin’, and the waiters started servin’, a gentleman leaped onto the registration desk, poured cheap champagne into his cuffs and declared in a ringing voice, “If man did have a choice — if he did have a choice, I say it would be to either be a creator, a critic, or a satirist.” (With that he began shouting, “Wheeeee!” and jumping all about like a man real excited, or somethin’.)
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{According to one man, the question is: For your own internal, family reunion and dinner, what’s the brain supposed to bring?}
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The true beauty of all arrangements is that they exist at all — to be noticed.
…..{…then added: A thing, admirable without the addition of adjectives, is being seen through revolutionist eyes.}
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One man who wasn’t lame began to use crutches; he used them for so long that he now needs to go to the bathroom again… (Alertness, troops — always a matter of alertness; which is why city thinking has no particular love for the unexpected.)
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{“Well, one thing you can say for sports,” noted a chap apparently no ardent fan, “is that while the guys are playing, at least they can’t talk about themselves.”}
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{More Weird Tales From Weird Willie’s World: One man who watches the news on television every day says he now watches it with the sound off — and he says it has the same significance.
…”Hey, dude,” chides a viewer, “that ain’t all that weird.”)}
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To the villagers, the king is the fountain from which all wish to drink; this trompe l’oeil remains tenable only so long as the true source of water is never revealed. …(On secondary seas, the happy ship can appear to be the coal burning freighter built of lignite.)
…..{…or, if you’d prefer an updated metaphor: The spaceships of the revolutionist mind are fueled by the fumes of the crew.}
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The purpose of revolutionist thinking is such that it lies silent when Philistines speak. (This is not so when they’re talking internally to the thinker.)
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{One chap said he overheard someone say, “Those who don’t understand the law — impugn it,” and his friends wondered whether it was said in the courts, the churches, or the laboratories.}
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{One guy cut down on his reading time by laying aside any work that began with the author commenting at all on the torments of his childhood.}
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{…and Kyroot noted: No matter who you think pulled the trigger — everybody gets shot.}
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On the day that the Ole Philosopher’s son was to begin his own personal quest, the elder told him, “In your travels, whenever you find what seems to be ‘The truth,’ and it annoys you, there are several immediate possibilities: One is the fact you don’t like it proves it’s the truth; another is that it proves it’s not the truth; or yet again, it could prove that you’re not you.”
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{Here’s another item from the, “What The Ding-Dong Hell’s The World Comin’ To” department: One god’s reputed new aim is to “Never say ‘No’.”}
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{One man had two possible ways of doing anything he was called on to do: He called them the “High Way,” and the “Professional Way”; (the latter was the one he’d get paid for…”Not,” he added, “that it made any difference.”)}
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{Instead of fashionable suspenders, this one guy now carries along this idea: “It’s difficult to talk about the complex with the simple; it’s difficult to talk about the simple with the simple…” — (He says from there on out, you’re on your own).}
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Several parts of one man’s mind decided to get together and beat up some of the other parts. No one was really too concerned since it was all in the family. …(And a viewer writes, [who has apparently written before]: “Dear Sir: I still say you talk about the mind too much; give some other parts a chance. Yours,” etc. …[Someone might care to note that all the other parts had their chance, (and succeeded nicely, Thank You.)])
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{A fellow over in the city, who bills himself as, “The Man Who Knows A Bunch Of Secret Stuff,” claims that all the bottles that say, “Shake Well Before Using” don’t actually need to be shook. (He says he leaves it to us to figure out what’s going on here.)}
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A certain chap mused, “Having — (as they do in the city) — so-called ‘original thoughts’ regarding an already established subject is not — (to my way of thinking) — much in the way of, ‘original thinking’.”
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{Another lesson from the classrooms of, “That’s Very Interesting But It CAN’T Be True”: In the secondary world of man, all ideas are supported by those not yet thought.}
…..{A gang of kids in one neighborhood had their own pertinent, operating thesis. It said, “One of the joys of life in a finiteness is that for every front door they can throw you out of, there’s another back one you can slip in through to get thrown out again.”}
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{Subject: Progress CAN bring savings: The vice mayor of one somewhat backward — but “itching-to-grow” — city said, “If we can reach the place where getting sick can make you famous, we can combine our gossip and medical magazines.”}
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{A prize winning treatise on worry: The ordinary are concerned about what they are, the revolutionist, about what he might become.}
…..{One chap said, “As long as I have a mind, I don’t have to deal in self-incrimination.”}
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{Although the client never complained, this one media consultant still doesn’t know what made him advise god to “Get an ugly person to do your commercials.”}
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{One man had a private zoo and in it he kept only imaginary animals; no one knew about it, and although it had no name, it was, in fact, a revolutionist menagerie.}
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{This one little local paper used to purposefully mix in “Museum” listings in the “Things To Do” Section.}
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{To be done with it, and to make maximum use of one’s finite reality, one man concluded, “The best time to go ahead and choke is when you’re strangling.” (Corollary: It is thinking like that that has brought us to where we are now. Thank you — and “Bye bye.”)}
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A half mile from the water mill a man in a car noted, “It’s only humans — and their experts, like novelists, anthropologists and priests — who can look upon the UN-evolved with admiration.” (He threw’er in second and was outta there.)
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{One rebel told his younger side kick, “The trick to fresh, self-made data is that what you make up has to be different enough to help you, but not different enough to hurt you.”}
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{…and Kyroot mentioned: One of our viewers wrote to the Advice Doctor about this matter: “Dear Doctor: Which would you say is the more complex, the primary or secondary worlds?” And he replied, “Well even if one of them is more complicated than the other, do remember that only one of them is able to mention it.”}
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{Another time saver, tip-er-roonie: Whatever the collective is concerned about is of importance — of temporary importance.}
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{Just as his sister said she knew her new boyfriend was a “real gentleman” because he doesn’t believe a man should hit a woman with a closed fist, one guy says some of the new ideas he’s picked up are like that.}
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{One man says that the way he keeps himself going is by continually saying to himself that, “What ever the cost — it’s got to be worth it.” (In contrast, there was once another chap who said that, “The cost of being alive paled in comparison to any thing else you could mention.)}
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One writer went on such a binge of cutting out unnecessary words that he’s now a cocktail waitress. …(After hearing this little item one reality said that his particular job didn’t allow for such possibilities.)
…..{…By-the-by, while you’re finishing your drink, you might be interested to know that in one world they say reality can never cut out any “unnecessaries” because it can’t find any, and that’s what it hires a god for.}
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{The electro-chemical dynamics behind what men call “embarrassment” can serve as a private octane-booster for a revolutionist thinker. …(“Remember”, said Ebb, “In the secondary world it takes two to do any thing.” “Yes,” added Flow, “And also in one’s head.” — [They both nodded their agreement.])}
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One man had an old car he cherished; to protect it he kept it covered with a large cloth; eventually the car rusted away, but he kept it covered with the cloth and thus, never knew.
…..{One man had some old ideas he cherished…}
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During his discourse, one of the speakers in the city park had this to note, “While all fires ‘give warmth’ — only the fire chief can award medals of honor.” …(Some of the squirrels still marvel with envy over the unexpected joys available in a more complex reality. …[And in a non-connected item, a duck down at the pond said, “Yes it’s fun not being shot.”])
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{…and Kyroot noted: As regards thinking, a “substantial belief system” is like a hammer without a thumb.}
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{Attempting perhaps to try and put his life in some perspective, one man said, “I could make-UP more interesting stuff than’s actually happened to me.”}
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{One of our correspondents notes: “Civilization and religion both took off once they took what they’d been calling ‘ignorance’ and re-christened it, ‘hope’.”}
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{One subversive kid once heard a teacher tell a class, “It’s easier to remember something if you have an interest in it.” And some years later the lad realized, “Yes, but somewhere even beyond that — it’s easier to remember and use something if you don’t have a personal interest therein.”}
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People who learn from the past, die.
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{Using various methods, one god tried to make his local reality seem more exciting than it actually was. (The reviews from those involved are mixed.)}
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Fear drives many thing, but not the brain. (When the horses sing, “Bring out the whip, bring out the whip,” you can be assured of an eventful trip.)
…..{…To be absolutely fair and comprehensive, We should note that, “Yes,” jet engines can run on pig shit. …(And perhaps while we’re in the mood we can further note that complete fairness and comprehension is not always necessarily interesting or useful.)}
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{Speaking of his interests, one man noted, “Sometimes, what other people think, interests me, but what I think always interests me.”}
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To be an expert in ordinary intellectual affairs requires a kind of selective myopia.
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{The old chief of the village, who also acted as their mind, said, “Once you know there are others out there, just over the horizon, it makes your feet want to dance or else run away.”}
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{And a viewer writes: “Regardless of what I sometimes think, I still sometimes believe it’s possible to understand what you’re talking about.”}
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Off alone, one man did some funny little things which no one knew about, and which he said helped him sustain the “competitive spark” regarding the private efforts in which he was involved.
…..{You could say that the only things of importance a revolutionist does are in private.}
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{…and Kyroot reported: Conversational hors d’oeuvres overheard in city sorehead bar: “Last night I saw god.” — “Yeah? — What’d he look like?” — “Like everybody in the world all put together.” — “Huh! — That bad, eh.”}
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{Sometimes, in private, there is one king who worries over the fact that you can’t get subjects concerned about defending themselves against an army of clowns.}
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{…and Kyroot concluded: Two revolutionists were talking and one says, “If the ship was sinking and you could save just one thing, what would it be?” And the other one answered, “Originality.”}
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