If It’s Human, It Lends Itself to Metaphor
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06/15/1994
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#1296 – 06/15:
Notes by TK
If the esoteric core of religion—secret knowledge—exists, why is it not as popular as its reflecting religion? Because religion offers only simple answers and methods to the simple. Mysticism doesn’t. Mysticism seems to have two effects: mind calming and mind exciting. What do you think?
The News
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Understanding and the everyday mind:
Man can figure out life mathematically,
Man can figure out life psychologically,
Man can even figure out life biologically and spiritually,
But the one thing he can’t do is — figure out life.
In the hidden mountains,
Those who discover the great secret
Also get a small prize to go along with it.
One man mused: “A pencil is my friend — ink, a questionable companion.”
…(he was later able to apply this to the relationship between his dependable mind,
And his exciting one.)
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The only freedom the simple have is that which the more complex allows them,
Question: is this a political, or neurological commentary?!
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Being) “Up to date”
One man’s life fell apart! —
And if you think that was bad! — then his car did!!
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Once you are civilized,
If you’d refrain from routine mental combat,
You wouldn’t slip back into savagry. (and get ulcers, and stuff).
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The real distinction between man and all the other creatures of this world
Is that he’s the only one who enjoys talking about himself.
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Advice: two of life 6 billion diverse thoughts trying to contact one another.
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“Tis been said that people of the forest dream of gods who are green,
Even pondered if being of green origin determines one’s forrestry abode,
But men’s minds have yet to expand this question into the relationship of
Their own brain to their own apparent'”Personal thoughts.”
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Specialized medical update
For a few,
What would be worse than hearing the doctor say: “You have ulcers.” would be the words: “I’m sorry, but you have the stupids.”
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The more civilized becomes the world of man,
The more the alpha wolves controlling the pack speak of democracy & freedom.
Rhetorical queery: is life a “Foxy-devil,” or what!?
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This or that: a poem:
You can talk about the future,
You can think about the past,
You can stand on your head,
Or sit on your ass;
You can look to the right,
You can look to the left,
You can run with dichotomies
’til your thinking turns to mush.
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One man’s position expressed thusly:
“Life made man so ‘man-like’ so’s he could fret & sweat over man-like problems.
(some times I think it went overboard.)”
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Bad news time
There is no nobility in “Smart-ass-ism”.
(and damn little intelligence or useable info.)
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Oh, okay — try it this way:
A “Mystic” is not just a “Fancy name for someone who can think for themself”
A mystic is someone whose brain can think differently.
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Everyone likes to believe they’re more complex than they really are,
While they’re actually even simplier than they can imagine.
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Offering to help the intelligent who ask,
Is not the same as giving advice.”
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Looks are everything–unless you look too deeply –then they still are,
But it’s just not quite the same any more.
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Okay — the truth!
In discussing human matters — words are everything!
— always have been, always will be.
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By making men believe that they run life,
Life manages, (by and large), to be left-the-hell-alone.
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Education as practiced by the ordinary:
The obscuring of the unnecessarily obvious,
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Today’s theology
To keep them happy, god gave dogs fleas, and man, thoughts.
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One man once thought: “thoughts wouldn’t be so bad if you didn’t have to
Put them into words.”
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Today’s milky way legend:
Life periodically sends down someone to “Save mankind.”
…just to see how dumb they still are.
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One man offered this verbal assistance to his son:
“No matter where you are — no matter when you are,
You can correctly grasp the significance of whatever ideas men are
Presently taking most seriously by simply observing dog turds on the sidewalk
Before a rain.”
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Just before the fisticuffs and bloodshed,
The discussion had been centered on the question of:
“Which is the greatest threat to a mystic:
Planning,
Predictability,
Sensitivity,
The desire to be liked,
Or a fear of fisticuffs and bloodshed?”
As told in one legend:
The reason that extraordinary thinkers go off so often alone
Is so that they can be by themself.
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As witness again of how superior life is to you, consider:
Every time you stick out your tongue at it,
It doesn’t necessarily stick its out in return.
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A quick fix to save you the time & expense of driving around from one shopping mall to another:
If it’s human – it lends itself to metaphor.
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Stupidity cannot be slain–its opponents keep reviving it.