JAN’S  FRESH  REAL NEWS
                      © 2001: Jan Cox
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October 13, 2001.
 
 

Exclude the realm of mind and the affairs of life are conclusive;
you are hungry --  you eat;
you eat until you are full;
the affair of being hungry is brought to a satisfying conclusion,
(same with all other instinctive physical needs),
but in the world of thought, (the affairs singular to humans),
conclusiveness is never achieved and the failure, never noted.
 

Conclusiveness in the realm of thought is never achieved
because it is not possible;
when thought is about physical affairs,
conclusiveness can occur:
a man feels hungry; his thoughts say there is a restaurant
around the corner and thus they contribute to
a satisfying conclusion to the affair,
but the affair has to be one that concerns either his own
instinctive needs, or material things outside of his own body,
but in the pure world of thought,
wherein thoughts think about affairs that exist only in thoughts,
conclusiveness is not possible:
one man’s thoughts say there is a supernatural force among men,
guiding their lives, and another man’s thoughts say that is not true because he does not see the force, and the first mind says that it because
the force does not want to be seen, and so on;
even when clothed in serious sounding verbal garb,
all such are but children’s games of trying to state the world’s largest number and having your opponent always respond by repeating your number, then saying: “plus one:”
it is as simple as that, but life demonstratively does not consider itself to be served well by having many humans aware of it on a continuing basis.
 

Men can reach collective conclusiveness regarding
physical affairs of survival;
one group tells another that if they take water from a lake
in their territory, they will be killed:
both sides understand the conclusiveness of the statement;
there is nothing else to be said;
the sentence and the reality it represents has no loose threads;
no ambiguities; no unresolved questions:
“You come here and take our water --  you die” --  case closed.
But if one group tells another that they should drop the god they worship and pick up theirs, the palaver will be endless,
and in that neither side can ever come up with definitive reasons
why their god is better than the other side’s,
the ceaseless wrangling over imaginary affairs can easily result in the parties finally attempting to end the frustration through physical combat,
but as an un utilized footnote to such physical conflicts over
non physical matters, life has men mouth the profound sounding maxim which declares that just because you have killed a man,
it does not mean that you have changed his mind;
men will say this, and men will nod their solemn agreement thereto, then all pick up their swords; check that they still have their previous state of consciousness, and off they go, ready to fight another at a future date over such transcendental, morally-significant questions as:
Cinderella's real shoe size.
 

As always: any matter such as this, as it concerns other people,
is strictly life’s problem;
a man driven by that hunger which is not satiated at any ordinary restaurant, real or mental,
must focus his interest therein, totally on himself;
“What life has the rest of humanity doing is its business;
what it has given me the opportunity to do, is mine,”
ergo does the affair become one of you seeing then considering the fact that nothing you have ever thought achieved a state of conclusiveness;
no matter how exciting some of your past thoughts have been
you must see clearly for yourself that they never make you feel a
satisfying finality has been reached;
there is nothing wrong with you or your mind,
this is simply the nature of thought,
a nature to which life normally has men blind.
 

Just as the body would not eat did it not expect that doing so
would produce a conclusiveness to its hunger,
neither would the mind think were it not constructed to expect
similarly satisfying results for its efforts,
but to say that the mind is childishly easy to fool in affairs regarding thoughts, is to state that which is so basic to the operations of human life that it is as difficult to consciously perceive as ‘twould be for
the lungs to have a hands-off awareness of air.
But life allows a few men to pursue their hunger for this exact
perception, though seldom pictured in supra terms,
but what is above described is a most accurate description of
the normally unrecognized, natural & inalterable nature of:
all thinking about
all things which
have no tangible substance;
a never ending process operating through man
which is not designed to ever achieve a state of conclusiveness,
thought’s nature & purpose is indeed, just the opposite:
to never reach a finish line  --   a final state or condition,
and what unwittingly drives the few is an anomalous resistance
to this prevailing situation;
the few want one thing, (no matter what various names are given it by its various would be mouthpieces), and the one thing is:
“A final answer, dammit!
A once-&-for-all conclusive description of just what is going on;
the last word; the ultimate wrap-up to all of the things that
have been endlessly rolling around in your mind all of your life.
That’s all!”  --   that is all the few are really after  --  but after
now having read the above,
you should reconsider the previously unanalyzed approach of
believing that thinking about The Thing & yourself
may play any part in you achieving your goal.
If your thoughts cannot even tell you the world’s largest number, how are they going to lead you to a greater state of mind,
which obviously (at least to those with 3 good eyes) is to say:
how are your present thoughts going to lead themselves to
a higher degree of understanding:
if they knew what was needed to achieve it  --  they would already have it.
 
 

The nearest blinding horizon over which a hungry man needs see
is the one that hides from him  --   and his thoughts  – the fact that there is
                  a permanent inconclusiveness to all human thought
   that distracts men from a direct awareness of what is going on in life --
   ...............save for a few who understand the inconclusiveness.
 

           The understanding is there for your taking.

                                               J