Said a father to a son:
“Consider the case of Homo sapien:
his body (same as other creatures) operates automatically;
his emotional responses are also automatic, but ponder that feature of man which defines his uniqueness: thinking!  –  what say you about its operations? –
and don’t repeat to me something you’ve read or heard;
look at the matter for yourself  –  as it endlessly plays out inside your own brain.”
(In case you’ve yet to be made privy thereto: The current slogan of that most exclusive fraternity,
The Six Billion Man Club, is: “Why would anyone make unnecessary effort!?   -- 
especially of the mental variety.”)

Facts That No One Wants To Talk About, But That
Everybody Knows Are True.
Under the right circumstances, a real man will:
assault anybody,
screw anything,
and pick an unconscious person’s pocket after an earthquake.
(It is also the deadly serious who rule the world and make all the laws concerning morality).
Fact: the funny-business of mortal Life is a serious matter.

One guy slides this dish of musing over to your side of the table:
“The religious don’t know what’s going on,
but believe that they know what to do about it,
while the mystical believe they know what’s going on,
but aren't able to do anything about it.”

The neural magician always has new ideas up-his-sleeve.
Just as the rebel prestidigitator was about to apply the thumb screws to his own
frontal lobes he exclaimed:
“All right! –  I confess (though the worst you’ve already suspected);
Here is my confession: I have nothing to hide or declare –  so there!”

Think Of All The Money You’ll Save On Celebrity Gossip Magazines.
A man-who-understands-what’s-going-on has no interest in the lives of other people.
 
One guy says he has discovered his hero when it comes to dedication:
he says there is a street person in his neighborhood who can get so thoroughly drunk, that the next day even his glass eye is bloodshot.
Mathematics Prove It!
If determination didn't count, men would have initially given up trying to develope
a method by which to count.

Conversation Fragment.
“Man’s only hope is in the future.”
   “Why don’t you say it like it really is?”
”Okay: Man’s only future is in the future.”
     (A message brought to you by the “Of What Possible Use Is ‘Right-Now’ Society.”)

What “wanting-to-awaken, achieve-enlightenment,” etc. represent to the few who
truly take it to heart, is a desire to make themselves as happy as is absolutely possible.

A Hint Regarding The Underpinning Of Words.
There are doers (farmers, carpenters, warriors),
and there are story-tellers (priests, politicians, psychologists & pundits),
and those good at one are rarely good at the other.

One good way to tell that some second-reality matter is of serious concern to
ordinary people is that it gives nervous-system-rebels a private chuckle.

Being a professional actor entails your pretending that you're smarter than you really are; being an ordinary person entails your believing it.

Anyone insightful enough to respond to their critics is certainly smart enough
to be one his self.
   (“I'm not sure I get that one.............but I am pretty sure I don't like it.”)

The Three Directions.
Fortunes go up and fortunes go down, while a real man goes on.

One chap preferred night time over day, since the former is when you can drink,
until he discovered you can drink in the day time.
Another guy thought night time was only good for sleeping until he discovered….

Believing that all the truly wise men are dead helps the living dunces make it through.

One man says he seems to have reached a place where he no longer enjoys thinking about how stupid other people are because it makes him think about how stupid he is.
   (“Pa pa; from our kind of view, what percisely is stupidity?”
          “Being mentally unoriginal.”)

A local-god confided to a guy:
“With all its drawbacks, one nice feature of my position is that I don’t stay awake
at night wondering what other people,” which caused the man to reflect:
    “Yeah, well how can thoughts think about themselves anyway!?”
           (And as usual, the divinity, didn’t get it.)
And in a totally unconnected story:
One guy said that since he already had a voiceover of his life going for him,
he wonders if he can also get it Closed Caption.

A young rebel asked an experienced sergeant why the neural revolution needs
to grow, “To get big enough to sprout its own feet so it will have something to eat.”
First-reality revolutions consume the political powers that be,
the certain-man’s second-reality variety consumes his second-reality.