Ordinary
men love proverbial notes regarding the nature of man --
they
relieve them of having to actually think about the matter.
Mystics
sing the praises of existence, poets, of man;
only
the rebel thinker, of the two together – and includes Life,
which
is what makes everyone’s singing possible in the foirst place.
As
he sat in normal rush hour traffic (bumper-to-bumper, door-to-door)
one
driver mused:
“Which
is more amazing: that I can daily maneuver my way safely for long distances
amidst this morass of men and machines, or that millions of unthinking
ants do so
in
their everyday lives?”
As
he gazed pensively out his window, another thought suddenly struck him:
“Or
are they both the same game?!”
There
is no surer sign of a man’s ignorance than he believes something to be
wrong with Life.
Totally
Obvious But Unacknonwledged Fact.
No
human has any way of making such a determination.
“Wisdom”
is an original thought someone else once had;
for
you to now repeat it is certainly a major
event!
(No doubt about
it.)
The pleasurable mental-heavy-lifting is the exclusive domain of independent thinkers.
A
guy pondered: “Which would be the worst: Having a fatal illness,
or
having one for which there are highly annoying, life-extending treatments?”
After
a moment, he further mused: “There is a similar question possible about
one’s
everyday life even if you don’t have a fatal ill.”
Says
one man:
“I
would not talk so much about myself if I knew anyone else half as interesting
as me.”
The difference between a sleeping man and an awakened one is that the former perceives things which everyone else believes are indispensable, as dispensable.
What defense is there against silence.
One
chap says that the relentless pressures of modern life has caused him to
display
a
brand new medical phenomena: stressroids (though he doesn’t yet
want to reveal
in which area
of his body they appear).
In
Re The Excitement In Ordinary Men’s Mental World.
When
watching a TV fishing show becomes too stimulating,
many
men will switch to the gardening channel.
The
first-reality is defined by objects, the second by words;
defined,
described, and composed entirely of words.
Next question?
If you find everyday life only boring – you'll never find the secret.
Definition.
Morality:
Pretending to take seriously the complaints of others.
Once
he was out on his own, one man made a deal with his self:
“For
the first fifty years I'll make the bed every morning, and for the next
fifty, I won't,” (and the bed said: “Fine by me.”)
Allegories
come stuffed with both natural and man made materials.
Whenever
the situation makes it appropriate, one father will say to the son:
“You
can certainly be serious and suffer if you want to.”
Pigs in slop don’t have to think -- (neither do ordinary men).
If there were any actual injustices in Life, it would be instances wherein those who know better don’t do better. (But even then, look who is responsible.)
Through the automatic, daydream thinking of six billion humans does Life attempt to formulate a Theory Of Everything, and thus causes individual men to indirectly search for the same thing in their life.
In
The Gym.
Mental-extensions
are the favorite exercise of the certain-man.)
One
man said to his inner-siamese twin:
“If
being pissed at Life
counted for anything,
then
your team would be leading their division in some league some where.”
Proverbs and cliché are memorials to the dead.
Another
Example Of The Difference.
In
the past, when one man would unexpectedly awaken in the middle of the night
just
as something was being played on the radio that he had wanted to hear,
or when he received a phone call from someone he had just been thinking
about, he found such occurrences quite curious, very intriguing, almost
mystical, but now that he understands-what's-going-on, he doesn’t.
After
billing his self as, Jumbo: The Flying
Elephant Brain didn’t further his career/increase
his celebrity, he changed it to, Jumbo:
The Flying Elephant Penis.
Fact:
Life
provides some kinda audience for almost anything.
(“Hang down your tom, head dooley,
hang it down or raise it high…”)
One
man conducts his life based entirely on the warnings contained
in
Public Service Announcements.
(“It’s
cheaper than being a Methodist
-- and
it serves the same purpose.”)
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