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12/27/1993
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The News
Cosmological Update For The Intellectually “Up-To-Date”:
If there is a “hole in the universe” then your consciousness
should be it. …(Where do you think extraordinary info’s gonna
come from!?)
…..When routine, city men find things to be going well in
their ordinary affairs, they like to say that “they’re on top of
the situation,” while a more alive & alert person would think of
himself as being an inseparable part of any and all human
situations. …Where do you think that all exceptional info
comes from!?
…..Definition: Situations And Circumstances: Gods without
the trappings.
***
If you enjoy hearing the commonness of common men celebrated
then you — (well, you know) — you’re one of them.
***
Definition: Civilization (that is, the operational reality
of man’s combined intellectual efforts: Civilization: This
solar system’s only manifestation that thrives — nay, solely
survives on — criticism. ** (Upon hearing this, one chap felt
as though the whole thing sounded way-y-y too much like his own
mind and personality.)
***
The structure that is the “question of survival” is and
should be, a rigid one, but in the strictly human, avocational
areas above this level, life should be a bit more relaxed and not
quite so solemn.
…..Question: What is the difference between a renowned
professional philosopher and a man who knows more? — The former
must be serious since his make-believe reputation depends on it.
…..”Oh Mr. Balanchine, your wife called and said for you to
wash your feet before coming home tonight.”
***
More Special Human History Looked At Through
A Glass Brightly
To the body, habit is so downright pleasing, agreeable and
comforting that it never did have to tell the intellect — “Hey,
you should try it.”
…..Another reason perhaps (?) that those who want to go
against this arrangement are so few — (!?!)
***
What The “Reporting Of The News” Reveals (And It’s Not
“The News”!):
In the contemporary media, the two most popular features are
those regarding health, and, finances — these two are also the
cheapest to put together and present. Question: Think there’s
any connection between these two facts!?…
***
During a late night chess game, one man said to his parrot:
“Many quite ordinary men have long loved to make note of the
‘bitter-sweet’ nature of every day human existence, but I’ll tell
you the truth, ole chum, having the exceptional hunger to
explosively, expand one’s understanding of life gives a whole
higher meaning to the experience of both loving something dearly,
and having it damn near drive you nuts.” They both smiled
knowingly as the bird good-naturedly checked him.
***
The silent slogan of many a man is: “A rigid mind is a
happy — or at least — normal mind.”
***
In the city — (that is, under the most normal, ordinary
sane and civilized of conditions) — in the city, small men fight
over small affairs, and larger men over matters the small men
believe are larger. ** A man who clearly sees the city for what
purpose it, and its inhabitants serve is mostly silent regarding
its day-to-day activities.
***
If you look at the myths of chivalry as allegories of the
mystical quest, then you can see the strict Code Of Honor the
knights adopted as reflective of their awareness of the
impertinence of civilized standards in their own lives, and thus
they upped the illusionary stakes.
…..A homeowner who finds an imaginary out-building sitting on
his property, has two salient possible responses (well, one
salient and in common use, and the other, only apparent to a few)
he can rant & rave and complain about the illegal, make-believe
structure — (to, I might add — no avail — obviously!, what!?)
or he might “play, knowing along” and even pretend to try and
shore up the illusionary construct’s foundations.
***
A Short Cultural Review Of City Minds
Simple, uneducated men promote religion; learned,
sophisticated ones denounce it; both groups are dumb as dirt.
…..Remember: Men don’t cause culture! — and even the reverse
is almost as untrue!
…..And a viewer says — ah, screw a viewer! — if he or she
actually had anything worthwhile to say they wouldn’t be merely a
viewer. ** “Oh, come now, ole dear — do calm down and get an
intellectual holt on yourself, there are positive things to be
said about being just a viewer.” “Oh yeah — like what?” “Okay,
like being a viewer makes plagiarism, and vicarious-fan-
participation-and-passive-by-stander-observation permissible.”
“I notice you said ‘permissible’ and not ‘acceptable’.” “It
would have broken up the alliteration.” “Oh.”
***
Media-Watch And Info-Age; Twentieth Century And Beyond
Taking the news of the city “seriously” will make you part
of the news. …(And one man said: “God forbid!” And god said:
“Hey, don’t quote me in print!”)
***
If civilization itself is all imaginary then everything in
it must also be; and that means that all prisons and forms of
captivity are illusionary, and I guess you see what that
means!?…Hey!, wake up, I’m talking to you!
***
One of our attentive viewers says that, thanks to us, he’s
adopted this motto: “Tense & prepared from the mental level
down; loose as a goose from there up.”
…..Question Mark? — Question Mark? — Question Mark?
While no one speaks of having arthritis as being proof of
their physical flexibility, men, as they age, continue to label
their increasing intellectual rigidity as wisdom — ?!?!
***
One Thursday (rather than doing his nails) one man sat down
and thus reflected: “The tricky thing about words (and thinking
itself) is that the more you understand the more you realize
that neither accurately represent what they claim to! — But! —
the more you understand — even beyond that! — the more you
realize that nothing does! — and that nothing is supposed to.”
…(To be completely honest with you, by late Friday, he’d come
to see that although what he’d thought sounded neat-and-deep,
that it was not actually so, but — “so what!?” — since he’d
already established that nothing is anyway!)
***
Some Unvaccinated Zoological News For Those Who Still Live In Domesticated Environments:
It doesn’t pay to be nice to a cheap dog; it does neither
the dog, nor the owner any good.
…..(Some of you may care to note that this is not only so
regarding dogs, but also applies to wolves, to horses, to lions,
to automobiles, and to the human mind.)
***
How Certain Mythological And Theological Ideas Could Be
Of Some Directional Assistance If They Were Understood
A “Bit Differently”:
Assuming the existence of such: A man could not be helped
by either the forces of, good, or evil, but only by those of
indifference.
…..Being “smarter” than everyone else is hardly worth the
effort — …if that’s all you had in mind.
***
…An intelligent man knows when to shut up; a really
intelligent one knows when to — in advance.
…..”Daddy, tell me a definition.” “Okay, here’s one:
‘Shutting Up: An act that can never be in the wrong place at the
wrong time’.” “Daddy, it was a trick! — I just wanted to see if
you’d actually answer me.” “Why you snot-brained little bastard
you! — My boy!”
***
For those who live in basements, and poorer parts of the
city, human progress means little unless it apparently presents
immortality. …(And if not that, then in certain “hipper”
limbic/neural ghettos, at least a cameo appearance on a soap
opera.)
***
In case you’d like a little added inducement to do some
traveling: On one of Jupiter’s asteroids they have a quiz show
which, if you can’t reach the final round, offers as a prize your
new choice of either eventually getting old, dying, or becoming
increasingly “less stupid and rigid.” …(Almost worth the
price of a pet-sitter for Fido.)
***
The minority, clear-view of the background of religion is
that early on, civilization recognized its own inherent
weaknesses (being at least sufficiently intelligent to understand
that the illusionary lacks [shall we say] a certain degree of
puissance) and quickly came up with a “Bogger Bear Story” to
frighten all the children and keep them in line.
***
Since men have no true psychology, the only tricks that will
work on them are psychological ones.
***
The substitute professor told the stand-in class: “The
universe is 15 billion years old, and humanity, a million. I,
however, have an uncle who has a mind that very likely surpasses
both figures,” and they broke for lunch.
…..Epistemology Update By Way Of Non-Standard Logic
If you understand this “one certain thing” you’ll understand
everything. It is thus in the mythical adventure-world of the
neural knight that one part is greater than the apparent whole,
in the same way that for instance, as regards everyday
civilization, any piece of an imaginary structure is just as
large, and just as meaningful as the structure itself. If you
being to see this, then you “better be careful” cause it ain’t
far from there to realizin’ that the same conditions hold true as
applies to the construction and operations of your own mind.
***
Although routinely overlooked by the city Dance Team Judges,
and in-town, Figure Skater’s Selection Committee, there is a most
significant connection! — for those few who still insist on
whirling about “on-their-own” in-their-own-head, and without any
official sanction — the connection between being able to
continually remember a most extraordinary personal aim, and a
“fortunate-turn-of-events.”
…..Query: What is a primary distinction in the curriculums of
a theological college and just a bunch of people who get together
to ponder on the workings of the great mystical adventure? The
seminary has no course in, luck.
***
How Things Are (Medically Speaking) If You Live A Routine
Part In The Everyday Human Drama, Outside Of The Possible
Rarer Mythological, Mystical Script:
If you have a head — you’ll have headaches; if you have a
heart — you’ll have heart aches; if you have lungs & guts —
you’ll die. Now! — Cheer up, by god, and go “do better”!
***
And Now Another Entry From The “M” Volume Of Our New
Intelligence Encyclopedia
Men conceived of the idea of adding morals to the end of
stories about human adventures since they realized that without
them they’d have none.
***
As per his special request, submitted to Creation’s Local
Customer Service Office, rather than a standard-issue intellect,
this one man was given a tick instead. …(Fearing that you
might not immediately grasp the significance of the switch, he
added the comment that it was “more relaxing” this way.)
***
One man told his children one day: “In a sense, all of us
thinking creatures born to a polar based life on this particular
planet, are, in the final, rational, analysis — intellectual
idiots! — But, you do not have to compound the problem by noting
it about yourself, or criticizing it in others.”
…..Milky Way Myth Addendum
The two spirits fighting for control of the Earth, the good
one, and the bad one, have no use for men who hold a personal,
smile-in-their-brain; the bad spirit simply hates them, and the
good one simply doesn’t trust them.
***
One man says he has this little private (quote) “prayer” he
thinks about sometimes, that goes like this: “Dear God: Thank
you for making so many people take civilization so serious, and
thus prop it up sufficiently that a few of us others can do
something a bit more interesting.”
***
In the legendary Kingdom of Uuu, they tell their mythical
version of the infinite battle between two forces as being that
of the rigid versus the loose.
***
And Now: Here Is The Very Last Piece Of “News” You’ll
Ever Need Regarding “The News”:
There is — and always has been — but one piece of news —
and that is that: You’re going to die!
…..Now lighten up, and turn over to the comics.
***
If you must be told something, you’ll never actually ever
understand it; thus it is that all of civilization’s laws and
directives of morality must be backed up with threats of
punishment.
***
After many years of mind searching and hormonal upheavals,
one man announced that he was leaving his family and ordinary
life to go seek the mystery that is life, and his wife and
friends asked him if discovering this would bring him riches, or
power, or immortality, and if not — then what would he achieve!?
And he replied: “A life spent as I — as I should spend it.”
And left.
***
If you’re solemn & serious about routine human existence,
you’ll die faster — but this’ll be balanced out by the fact that
you’ll feel like you lived longer!…too long, in fact.
…..”Distinctions Galore” (Again):
When the body fears it’s going to die, it gets really-y-y,
really serious; and so does the mind — but when it realizes that
it’s going to live.
…..Inquiry: Do you still consider it mere happenstance!?, the
fact that corpses are stiff and rigid!?
***
One day, in early spring, two men were standing in a field
and saw some turkeys, and one of them nodded toward the birds and
said: “Seems like when nature makes a really-y-y ugly creature
she makes up for it by making them appear humorous and helpless.”
One day, in early spring, two turkeys were standing in a field
and saw some men…
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