JAN’S DAILY BAKED FRESH AIR
                 (AKA: FACTS WITH A SHORT FUSE)
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                                                  ©2001: JAN COX
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December 30, 2001,
 
 
 
 

Amongst the ordinary, a lover of architecture saying that he cannot find words
to describe his feeling for architecture is taken as, “great insight”,
but never do men study the question of why they will stare at a
specific second-reality area such as architecture,
and ponder what it is about it that makes it indescribable,
rather than investigating the more meaningful question:
How can anything namable by thought then become indescribable?:  --
                                   the ultimate: “What is going on here?” inquiry.
 
 
 
 
 
 

Men automatically trust people in uniform (cops, soldiers, priests):
groups known to have sworn to conduct themselves according to specific,
pre established rules;
so also act ordinary people toward the thoughts that come to them.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

A man struggling to make himself earnest in his speech,
is approaching death.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Three topics are available for humans to talk about:
the physical world, other people, and oneself;
some reasonably intelligent people engage in the first;
some reasonably talented, in the second,
and dunces in the third.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

In various fashions can man be said to live in two worlds,
(body & mind; instinct & thought),
but in truth, only a man who knows-what-is-going-on actually does so,
for once he knows-what-is-going-on,
at any given instant after that he is either:
in the world of knowing-what-is-going-on,
or else he is going along with what is going on in him.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

The unenlightened always worry about such matters as,
“proving the existence of God”
long before they show any real evidence of their own.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

You can forget the fear many feel that the public figures running man’s political, religious & financial institutions are engaged in a conspiracy to control him;
it is the powers you do not see which you have to worry about –
(same as with the power directing your individual life and thinking.)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Everyone on the planet enjoys hearing people talk about the sad things in life --
--  except for one guy just outside of Memphis.
 
 
 
 
 
 

A man with something he believes he needs to say --
is a man to not be listened to.

   Corollary: a man who wants to help you
   is a disaster bearing down on you.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

“Rest for the weary”: an exculpatory term coined by those who finally --  gave up,
                                                          trying to  --
                                                          wake up.
 

                                    The start of the journey is sweet;
                                    the middle, frustrating;
                                   ...........(the middle proves to be the end for most people).
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Interest equals: capacity-to-participate...............................................except in thinking.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Wanting to knowTheFact is the supreme, and perhaps only true example of
something which: “You will never have, unless you really want it.” --
--  damn near in fact, be dying for.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Speaking incessantly and exclusively of thought as the driving force behind
the lives men live is ultimately misdirecting    --     but what other to say?! --
“heart & spirit” have been so long mis & manhandled as to be almost beyond any practical usage     --      and yet    ---
that which drives man’s mind is the same thing that moves the rest of him,
and is something which thought can never properly name,
and which body makes no effort to.
The only approach to privately getting a grip on it is by engaging in
the investigation of the mystery: “What is it that motivates my interest in
the non physical matters to which I am attracted?”--
and an “answer” to this question is not the answer to the question –
but in the ability to prosecute the inquiry itself.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Being asleep/unenlightened is in being unable to --  say-what-you-mean --
......which works out just about right......since if you are asleep,
you have nothing worth hearing about anyway.                            O-kay!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Only a man who doesn’t know what he is
is anywhere close to actually knowing what he is.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

A man who was thought to, know-what-is-going-on was told:
“Are you aware that many people are quite impressed by you?
     “They do not know me like I do.”
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

It is not possible to admire a man who wants to be admired
                                         as much as he wants to be admired.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

An ordinary man writing down his innermost, private thoughts is:  pissing into steam.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

                                        A man who cares what others think of him
has not discovered how to fully utilize his own machinery to think.
 
 

                                    You either haveTheInterest or you don’t,
                                    and if you don’t --  nothing will give it to you,
                                    and if you do – you can’t get rid of it;
                                    the best you can do is either:
                                    see it through  --   or pretend you’ve stopped trying.
 
 

And the week’s concluding fact:
One man worked it down to where he had no feelings one way or the other
about anyone in the whole world but himself.

                                              ........(A man with major potential.)
 
 

                                                            J