To Be Alive & Sane Is to Feel Guilty (Life’s Spur to “Do Better”)
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07/15/1994
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Summary
#1309 – 07/15:
Notes by TK
All men are at the disadvantage of the collective. The individual is at a collective disadvantage, i.e., the collective says something is flawed and must be overcome when no flaw exists. Mystical systems are prescriptions for overcoming disadvantaged conditions. To be alive and sane is to feel guilty: Life’s spur to “do better”.
The News
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Before man could think, life was crude, point-blank, and in-your-face;-now it is softer,
For the crowd, this is good, for a few, not so good.
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Originality, “Takes no prisoners”, creative thought forgoes recall.
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How to watch sports
If you don’t get involved with the fans in the stands you see better the game on the field.
With eyes men see,
And with “I’s” they are blinded.
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A man wrote a book: “How to think better”,
And people thought about buying it.
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Life is like a cable with a central core wrapped in two external strands, the strands are ever-changing, polarized reality,
While the core is the impartial, genetic one,
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Man’s”Collective reality” –
(through such things as: religion, morality and civil law) -tells him., “How he should behave”,
While the independent traveler tunes in to another level of directions.
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Down through the years, anger sure has gotten a bad rap, yet everyone keeps doing it -what gives!?
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How to watch. Thought processes
One guy said: “Pick a topic — any topic.” and he did.
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In the model of “Life as a triaxial cable”
You could also picture the two outer strands as representing,”Partisan thought” and the central core as, “Unaligned consciousness”.
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1-2-3
A treasure un-covered,
A myth un-bound,
A super-hero freed from his civilian clothing.
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There is no such thing as, “Mass delusion”, only the individual kind, the collective always sees things correctly,
That is: they see them as they need to be seen.
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How to watch being human
One man thought: “Crying’s good for — as long as you don’t do it,”
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All human advancement comes through attempts to reform & improve the existing. The trick is to do it individually, and without the criticism that normally accompanies such efforts.
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Comforting thought
Comforting thought is comforting thought is
Comforting thought that makes you feel comfortable.
Advanced version
Comforting thought is comforting thought is
Comforting thought that keeps you from being rebellious,
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The totality of, “Life the three layered cable” forever seeks to advance, expand, and improve itself;
The two outer strands do so in an intermittent, indirect fashion while the core serves as the steady supply of fuel and directions.
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To an individual,
The problem with man’s collective efforts at improvement is that they’re all too impersonal.
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Any thoughts you have that make you angry or upset are unworthy of a human.
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How to watch physics
It takes three people to dance — and no one can lead forever.
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Although at the collective level, life runs man at a determined speed, it still wants individuals to go faster.
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When a man tells you specifically the kinda guy he is,
He’s giving you an advanced synonym for his present condition.
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One man nicknamed the moldy underside of his tongue: “Moody two shoes.”
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Life in the collective waters
In a sense it is those, already floating corpses, who so fervently- exhort everyone to swim.
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Prognostication observed
One guy’s position:
“I can’t predict the future, but I can tell you that the past sucks.”
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A-b-c
Hate your fellow man, hate yourself,
Give it all up.
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Collective progress measured: people pay more for information than for food.
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There is a majesty and spendor about the impartial that few ever recognize.
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Individual progress measured: when you walk alone…It’s. Hard to describe.
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Before man could talk about fighting, he could fight; before he could talk about running, he could run, and before he could talk about dying, he could die,
Now who here wants to live afresh before having to talk about it!?
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The religious and week-end-warriors are taught by others; a few, (impossible though it be), do it to themselves.
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One man’s latest personal motto is: “Don’t be afraid not to be mad,”
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If you think mostly of how things are you’re not as conscious as you could be.
To think in the future is to be free.
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All mystics were initially artists,
Some painted on themselves, some wrote on themselves, but they all ended up sculpting themselves.
Show biz news: one guy waited to be discovered. Real life news: you gotta discover yourself.