JAN'S WHATCHUCALLIT NEWS
                 ©2001: JAN COX
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December 23, 2001.
 
 
 

                   THE REAL NEWS OF THE WEEK  --   FONDLED UP FOR THE FEW
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Four soldiers were playing in a field and one of them said:
“My stomach is my greatest adventure” -- then another said:
“My genitals are my greatest adventure”--  and another said:
“My muscles are my greatest adventure” --  and the last one said:
“My thoughts are my greatest adventure”
and a general who overheard all of this barked:
“I want three of you to band together and kill the fourth...................”
then after a pause added: “Or do it the other way around.”
(Obviously a leader who faces up to the inevitable,
[fatalists are as fatalist do.......and of course, same for non fatalists as well]).
 
 
 
 
 

It is considered a compliment to say of an ordinary man that he has,
“Never stopped learning” --
but with an extraordinary man, who has seen, what-is-really-going-on,
it is a different situation: he learns no more,
(there being nothing more to know),
but rather: he never stops emptying (un learning).
    (“Praise be! --  I am almost disappeared --  but this time, on purpose!”)
 
 
 
 
 
 

Another example of how mankind freely but unwittingly reveals its
total lack of any meaningful understanding of itself
is when one of them identifies some particular idea as being of striking significance, and first thing he does after that is start giving a bio of its author’s life.

   There is no connection between the circumstances of a man’s life
   and any extraordinary understanding he achieves,
   (other than the fact he was born a human, same as everyone else).
 
 
 
 
 
 

There is one pair of magical translational glasses, if through which you look,
words are not only seen as discreet entities unto themselves, but angry ones at that !   Angry, (from their view) at their misuse by man.

   If you support a treaty it is “words to live by”;
   if you want to escape it, it is nothing but “words on paper”
   (which is all any words are; they are nothing more than the behavior which
   men desire to fashion thereby).

                                          A man-who-knows lives by no words.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

A man with a hang-loose, no iron mind does not want to hear the finish of any sentence which begins with someone asking him for something,
nor one which starts with HIM requesting something.

   A man who does not want from other men --  understands the nature of life.
   The material food cycle is instinctive and inescapable,
   while man’s mental one is imaginary and not mandatory for a few.
                                               (Viz: those who comprehend it.)
 
 
 
 
 
 

Extend virtue /assistance/acceptance/friendship/ forbearance to those who deserve it and those who do not as well --  in the land of ideas.

Extend to both those who deserve it and those who do not,
your virtue /assistance/acceptance/friendship/ forbearance   –  and
anything else that your thoughts would automatically afford to the former.

                                                This will ultimately crack the nut.
 
 
 
 
 
 

Absorption in oneself is sleep  -- (that should read):
absorption in ideas of oneself is sleep.
Note, you cannot be unprofitably absorbed in yourself physically, (that is,
as regards instinctive matters) --
only detrimentally absorbed in ideas  --  concerning yourself.
    (“But -  Hey! --  I’m the center of my universe.” --  yeah, yeah,
and --  Hey-also, please note:
                                being so mentally is what keeps you stupid & confused.)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Nothing that men say interests them (beyond the physical basics of staying alive)
                                                     will stand close scrutiny.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

It appears to not be possible to be human and not feel that -- “something isn't right.”

   Even in hell there always seems to be, “a chill in the air.”

      (Be thankful at least that hippos roosting in trees do not get depressed.)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

You likely will doubt the veracity of it, but here is a story:
On one planet the creatures spend a large part of their lives in an activity which
they mostly treat seriously
but which mostly accomplishes nothing:
a fact to which they seem mostly oblivious.

                                                Guess what they call this activity?
 
 
 
 
 
 

In the two mythological consciousnesses of Adam, and of The Snake,
Adam’s is glue smeared,
while the Snake’sis just as slick as his name implies.
                           No one can catch an awake man  --   not even himself.
 
 
 
 
 
 

You need: eyes which want to see the unseeable,
and hands which never lose grip of reality,
and a hunger that can eventually connect the two.
 
 
 
 
 

You can throw away all the insecticides,
all you need do is listen in when your thoughts talk about you and –  Poof! --
extermination is complete!    --  you are no where to be found.
 
 
 
 
 

A Previous Story Revisited & Extended:
Oft times after doing something stupid when he was alone,
one man would curse himself aloud, using all manner of crude epitaphs:
then one day unexpectedly responded, audibly thereto:
"If I was there now  --  you wouldn’t talk to me like that! "
and after a second realized, and said:
“If you had been here --  I wouldn’t have done what I did, and had to say what I said.”
 
 
 
 
 

Father advised son afresh: “Don’t say, ‘sleep’ --   think of it as:
‘The-stupor-of-self-absorption-through-thought’ or:
‘The-daze-&-dullness-brought-on-by-staring-at-thoughts-about-oneself’.”
 
 
 
 

Men do not lie to themselves --  thoughts lie to men  --    and they are either:
(a) too dumb to realize it, or (b) forced, for some reason, to act as though they don’t.
 
 
 
 
 

People who, through their advice/instruction, try to help others – do nothing:
while those who do nothing actually help others.
(“Quite suprising, huh?! -- that there is no end to what you can UN learn.”)
 
 
 
 

At the post graduation party/senior class party, turns out that all talk about the:
“waking up/achieving enlightenment thing"  is nothing but talk about talking.
      ("Who'd a thunk it?!?")
 
 

Resistance is the executioner of understanding;
annoyance, the judge who condemns it to death.
 
 
 
 
 

One man, whose words often seemed contradictory, was thus accused:
“You are awfully loose with your language,”
to which  he replied:
“That is because I am sufficiently tight in my understanding.”
 
 
 
 
 

There is something that will change your life --
and you don’t even have to actually do it to get its benefits --
all you have to do is remember that you intended to do it.
 
 

                                                    J
 
 
 
 
 

..and, oh yeah:
The entirety of everything that man can know can be said in a single, short sentence --
                   --  but few are those who would recognize it for what it is if they heard it.