Life Lies (the Long and Mostly, the Short of It)
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#1390 – 1/20/95:
Notes by TK
Life is lying to man, misleading him always. E.g., the illusion that monitoring all data of volcano or earthquake zone is a reliable means to control/predict same. It’s absolutely meaningless. Cf. “know thyself,” psychoanalysis, introspection, meditation etc.
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Although I’m sure it’s common knowledge among many of you by now, I’ll go ahead and codify it and make it official:
The most efficient ways to cover up stupidity are:
Act serious,
Whine,
Appear stupid.
…(in which case,
You’ll blend right in & no one will notice.)
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Yet another take on the attempt to ignite one’s consciousness to a higher level
There are three ways to bring a run-away train under control: one is to try and bring it under control;
Another is to just let it run its course to exhaustion; and a third is to do the first two then – get the hell off!
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In a land & time far away,
Was once a man who tried to be quite specific ’til he finally realized what was going on.
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Shortly after each person is created
They have a momentary, face-to-face, direct encounter with life, and those who blink and turn away
Are given the gift of: freedom of will. Although, “Gift”
Is not really the right word, but — what the hey…. it’s just people! — nice, fat, ordinary, juicy people.
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From our: “How come you never think about stuff like this in your spare time” department:
Men are the only creatures who believe in the existence of things non-physical, why?
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Query: who’s. The dumbest: those wanting to change man’s behavior, or his thinking?
Official Finding: define “Dumb” to my full satisfaction.
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There’s a game being played — and man is the field;
There’s a war being fought — and man is the scene;
There’s a joke being played, and the serious are the door prizes.
The “Thing-about” being ordinary is that
The best reward you’ll ever receive is, (do forgive me) – being you!
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The historical model for the concept of, “Child abuse” came from the way men treat their mental potential.
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The “Fairness doctrine” clearly explained
The universe carries you around in its head — same as you do it.
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…Oh, all right — it really & truly, clearly explained:
Anyone who actually believes they understand what a mystic is talking about, is an idiot.
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One man said:
“My life is an open book! — which is why my spine is in such ragged condition.
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Inquiry of yourself:
What better synonym for “Stupidity” than “Seriousness”!?
….And also for, “Normalcy, sanity, & up-right, up-tight mental mediocrity”!?
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All mystical schools of enlightenment have,
As a convenience for their students,
A book by the back door,
In which they may write their names,
Under the heading titled: “I don’t want to ‘play’ anymore!”
And a gentleman asks: “Is the term, ‘mystical schools of enlightenment’ done in all caps?”
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The byword of comedians is: “Always leave ’em, wanting more. , that of the awakened: “Always leave ’em.”
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From our: ”it won’t do you any good to deny it” department:
If you don’t know what’s going on — you believe in conspiracies.
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One man collected facts,
His brother, only opinions;
A rat looked in the cat trap anti said: “If those are my thoughts, then: what’s gotten in’ya’s !?”
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Shortly after Eden first caught on fire,
The few who escaped were so befuddled that they, (for a considerable length of time),
Believed that things physical had no place in the mind.
…And a small lizard, (who’d watched the whole affair from Bagdad), asked for a clarification as to the term “Considerable length of time.”
….And Noah’s wife said: “We got here just in time.”
Moral: never under-estimate the power of — anything!
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Some shouted at him: “Why don’t you stop driving those metaphors at us!?” and he replied: “It’s life’s fault — it keeps serving them up to me.”
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As they climbed,
Some of them sang:
“I don’t believe in crap,
And crap don’t b’lieve in me; I don’t believe in crap, and, toss me up a rope.”
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There was once a man who relied on the validity of direction that is, until he became of aware of what was going on.
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One guy said: “Jeeeze!. I’m getting way too human!”, and life replied: “So what d’ya expect!?”
….And the guy finally said: “Well….A bit more than this!”
….And eventually life responded: “Just where do you think you are any way!?”
At which point the guy decided to terminate the conversation.
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Postulate: ’tis mis1nformative to say that man has a “Mind” —
The truth would be better served to say that he has a
Nervous system capable of mutable vocalization.
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Question: why do men like to mentally “Live in the past”?
Answer: so, they can say: “The future’s of interest to everyone! —
For that is where we will spend the rest of our lives.
Question #2, (on your behalf): “Is that supposed to make any sense to me?”
Answer #2: how should I know!?
Theorem red angular: only the “Here-&-now” is actually — dangerous! — why?…You wanna know, why?….Well I’ll tell you: cause it’s damn near objective & unfeeling -just like you’d like to be!
Any more questions….
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One man was once suddenly struck with the rhetorically based insight: “How — how is it possible that I can be more serious than life is!?”
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The collective is more given-to applaud serendipity and bumbling discoveries than intentional intellectual feats.
The dumb cherish and support their own.
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If cortexes could high jump, philosophers would be on cereal boxes.
….And the simple would happily chew the day away! ….Just like they do already.
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Then another man laid down the new law to himself,
Regarding whether he would any longer be allowed to be a part of the secret, inner mystery school he’d established in himself: and the fresh requirement was that he either:
Cease pondering the ideas of others — or,
Give up drugs,
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The shadowy traveler pulled low the brim of his hat,
Turned off the lights in his compartment,
And as he watched the lights and telephone poles pass by/his-window wondered quietly to himself: “Is this Greece — or the weekend!?”
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A’ doctor went into a man’s office and said: “Well don’t do that!?”, and the man said: “It hurts every time you do that,”
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In another time and another place, was a man who believed in sequence ..that is until he discovered what was actually going on!
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There was once a kid who found a book, filled with impressive ideas) and whenever he’d read from it aloud, and people would listen, he felt more intelligent.
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People are not, “Dumb”! —
It requires some intelligence to reach that level.
…Now a pig who fell off his trapeze! Not that’d be dumb!
And mama galaxy screamed:
“If you tell me ‘you-don’t-get-it’ one more time — I’m going to scream!” Which of course was just the point…. ……… .And she just did.
….Yeah, but in spite of all this,
Several planets, (chagrining behind their local cloud cover), still didn’t get it.
And mars said to mercury:
“Aren’t you glad you’re a mythical god and not a world!? — at least, not one unto yourself!?”
And the wing-footed one suddenly thought:
“Well, if not, then what’s the use in being a god!?”
And as he fearlessly plummeted toward earth, the pig confidently reflected on the rising pork prices,
In spite of the fact that he didn’t understand what this was all about either.
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One man wanted to sing the song: “I’ll be loving you, always”, but had no one to sing it to,
He was not as acquainted with his full potential consciousness as he could have been,
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How can you tell a young mystic? — by/the fact that he’s serious. How can you spot a mystic who’s gotten old? — he’s serious too.
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Too late to be included in the party
Did he learn that the fifth law of motion had been temporarily suspended.
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A local ordinance states that: “He who cannot control his own mind, cannot control his own children.”,
Which works out, (in specifics), fortuitously
Given that those who can, generally have none… none not-visible, that is.
And as he hurled stalwartly into the sun,
The projecting porker basked in the knowledge & certainty that he had not the least idea of what was occurring.’
And lo! —
A great movement, rumbling — then roar
Went up from the masses, proclaiming that he — the flying pig -should henceforth be the official representation of man.
….(there ‘was, [by way of less than unanimity], however, one man who wondered whether that should be, “Representation of man,” or “Representative”!?)
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There is yet another version of the legend,
(yet to make the theological, best seller list),
That says the first man and woman were driven from original paradise for
Acting way-y-y too silly’ once they learned to think, that is
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Discovered at last:
The history of the great secret work is written in pee,
In the snow
Of the Sahara,
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Aphorism update:
God must love the common man, because he made them so..well, so common.
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“Daddy, when I die, can I be somebody else?”
“I certainly hope so, sweets — for everyone’s sake, I hope so.” “Oh-h-h, daddy.”
“Oh-h-h, sweetums.”
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Medical news for those totally off the ward:
Taking what travels normally through one’s mind, seriously,
Is like hanging out the window – pleading with germs to, “Come get cha.”
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“Doctor, doctor! — I believe the man in 216 is getter worse!”
“Nurse, nurse — I’m actually a conductor, but as long as I’m here: is that room 216, or pullman car?”
Moral: travel doesn’t make you ill — the suddenly inability to stop, does.
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There was once a man who spent forty, or twenty years taking it all seriously! ….That is — until his metaphysical understanding of what it is exactly that constitutes “The serious,”
Was brought into severe doubt when
The limo of a local mystic ran over his foot.
“Well…Don’t be throwing up all over the back seat — 1
I already warned you about the inability to go ahead and stop, dammit.” ..,.”Aww-w-w! — are we there yet!?”
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One citizen complained to the local, mystic’s licensing board regarding some practitioner’s lack of personal grooming and solemnity.
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It might also be of interest to you undergraduate rat collectors to know that every letter ever written to, “The editors” was actually sent’ in by history.
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At a later stage in his journey, one man reflected: “If I knew now,
Half as much as I used to know,
I’d still be as dumb as I used to be.”
It’s really rather silly,
The notion of the secret revealed in the awakening, being hidden from man. Yep, pretty silly.
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Interrogatory:
How come you never find yourself sitting on a train or bus next to Buddha, or Muhammad?
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When trapped and confused,
Rats will appear — trapped-and-confused,
Under similar conditions, men will suddenly start acting real-l-l serious.
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Any sane person wants to increase their consciousness,
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“Remember) fellow ranchers – ’tis proper for cows not to know nuthin’!”
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Any sane person wants to increase — ah, forget it!
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One guy said: “I’ve had about all I can take!”, and life poked his girlfriend and said:
“Hey, can I turn out kidders or what!”
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Reminder:
If anyone tells you to: “Slow down!” — “Hold your horses!” “Take it easy!” and,
“Keep your pants on!” — it’ll be life.
And being the wage-paid, ass-kisser it is for life, local conditions butted in to say: “Hey —
Don’t be lis’nin’ to that shit!”‘
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Rather than actually troublin’ himself to be more conscious, one guy would just tell people that he used to play trumpet-tin little Richard’s band.
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