JAN'S FRESH  KISS-TO-THE-BRAIN
                   © 2002: Jan Cox
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January 10, 2002.
 
 

                               HOW TO BE HAPPY *
 

Dismiss all talents you do not possess.
Anticipate constantly looming catastrophes --  and share your foresight.
Analyze your past endlessly……… (to others gives an added dimension).
Search continually for new ways of getting sympathy.
Announce that you know the world is full of people trying to con you,
  but that you’re too smart to fall for it…
  or else so angry already that they shouldn’t even try.
Attack those who seem mentally weaker & dumber than you;
  that’s what your superiority is for.
Describe yourself in unending, unlimited detail.
Never ignore an insult.
Answer all criticism.
Seek attention relentlessly.
Tell everyone how you feel about everything.
Brood; privately if necessary  --   but publicly if possible.
Spread sarcasm where it is needed and will provide the maximum benefit.
Replay past games in your mind: future winners always plan.
Identify the sources of your psychological wounds.
Never forget – even for an instant --  that most humans are idiots.
Always make note of irony when it pops up
  and how its recipients deserved it.
Ridicule others before they can you,
…and most importantly of all: Keep nothing to yourself.

* (Also known as: “How To Be Normal” and: “How Not To Disturb Yourself.”)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Behind the few people’s uncommon desire to reorient their consciousness
(to wake-up, be enlightened) is their finding man’s second reality
too conservative, redundant and boring.
Man’s primary (that is): physical reality is the paradigm of conservatism
(as with all of life), but his mentally based, second reality
comes to him with the accompanying sensation of freedom;
his brain conceives of that realm as a place of choice and independence;
a world in which anything is possible.
(Some things in this universe would not work as they do
were it not for deception and illusion......okay: one certain thing.)

People born and confined to arctic regions have no way of determining
whether a world of snow is the only one extant,
and a brain whose consciousness consists of thoughts which are
constructed to believe they are free to do whatever they like
is most assuredly free (if we want to call it that) to accept that
inherent personal characteristic as being a statement of objective reality.
(Babies born cocaine addicted are allowed [if you like the word]
to declare their chosen preference for the drug.)

Creatures, be they wolves, trees, quasars, quarks or men,
are free to believe in their independence --  even partially:
a freedom however, exercised solely by man,
a situation readily understandable in that we are the only creatures
forced to hold a belief that we are free (even partially).
(It’s a hellava thing to make fun of worms, naturally blind, but who say they  see things, since we have no idea what those without eyes might see.)

The few interested in the matters (okay: the one matter) reported on here daily (excluding Judgment Day if it falls on a Saturday)
not realizing it in the beginning,
are driven by a feeling natural to them
that the secondary reality all around them of culture, the arts, politics;
the world of the intellect and so-called, spirit
are all moving way too slow, (if at all?!) --  at least for them;
at first they mention this to their parents, then peers, then experts,
but no one else seems to care --  or even agree with their assessment;
they just shrug and say that’s how life is, or else declare that additional
life experience will clear up the confusion  --  but for the few, it does not;
the true few do not outgrow the feeling, nor can they forget or ignore it;
the world and reality created by human thought, which should be vital,
exciting, challenging, enlightening, exhilarating is none of these things:
it is stodgy, timid, repetitive, shrouding & protective --  but of what?
‘tis though thought itself --  this nominal example of freedom –
is hiding something --  denying that it even exists;
clearly covering up something
while just as plainly, trying to pretend it is not.

What is the dirty little (or perhaps gigantic) secret thought is trying to hide?
is it about the purpose of life?  --   nooooooo;
is it about the nature of man?  --    nooooooo;
is it about the government?  -----   nooooooo:
the Church? --  the Illuminati Conspiracy? --   the afterlife?  --  no, no, no;
the secret that thought knows is about itself.

You already know everything you need to know to wake-up except this one thing,
and knowing it will make you extremely un happy (compared to the above list).

                                         J
 
 
 
 
 

......"Being asleep" is the ultimate form of parochialism.