Overhearing
a discussion of birth defects, a chap mused:
“Regardless
of what parents may overtly profess (discounting the loud influence
on women
by mothering
hormones), no person really wants the be saddled for the
rest of their life
by
a child who is born already ill, and as soon as I was old enough
to have a comprehensive sense of what my natural mind was about, I felt
the same way about it.”
As
celebrities seem to have established: in the city, looking pissed passes
for both political insight and meaningful social concern.
(“Damn! – in that case, why couldn’t I have been a celeb, it would
surely
have made this
row of raising new consciousness I've chosen to work, much easier to hoe.”)
A
father said to a son:
“Here’s
another circumstance which, as soon as it reveals itself, don’t hesitate
to immediately cease paying it any attention: when someone begins their
remarks with these words: ‘They say that a man ain’t supposed to________.”
Hormones
Have A Bit Of Sport With Neurons
(Or Is
It The Other Way 'Round?).
The
only reason real men ever major in Geography is for the opportunity to
say:
“Lake
Titicaca.”
It seemed to one man that in the movie-of-his-life, he had only a cameo role.
(Other than for obvious biological imperatives) no one knows why men say and think what they do and anyone who claims that they do is a fool.
Conversation.
“Those
who are alive whose thinking & emotions are affected by those who are
dead, make good citizens.”
“What else can be said about them?”
“They
make very good citizens.”
From
a dark corner came these words:
“The
benefit of being able to act like you're someone else is that you're not
confined to acting like you're the you that you were originally forced
to act like you are.”
Notes
a chap: “At least one nice feature of getting old is that even if you don’t
gain
wisdom, you gain weight.”
Latest view of one fellow: “Of all the weird things people do, the clincher has got to be the recalling and attempted analyzing of their past: to what end? For what purpose? I'm dumbfounded ever time I think about this.”
If
humans don’t act excited about a second-reality affair
it
never has the chance to be exciting.
After
some thought on the matter, one man decided that rhymes stick in the human
mind more solidly than does straight speech, and from this he devised such
personal exhortations and denunciations as:
”Being
asleep makes me a creep.” “Tut tut, mental butt.” “Damn right!
insight.”
Stay
alert or I'll call you Burt,” and so on in that vein. (He
says feel free to use it yourself.)
Everybody
wishes they could have met their hero, except those who did.
(Okay, for real):
Everybody wishes they could have known their hero intimately,
except
those who did.
A
father gave a son this tip: “If you can't be silent,
at
least never say anything that reflects how you really feel.”
I must be a really
lonely guy.”
One
man was put off for about six or five seconds last Thursday when he had
this thought: “If, as I feel, everyone in the world is a pinhead,
that
would mean that no
one is a pinhead.”
(The notion, while literally possible, still bothers him deeply to consider.)
Confab.
“What
is the height of futility? --
being angry about the inevitable.”
“Don’t you mean: the height of idiocy?!”
Every
night once he is in bed and under the covers, one man tries
(as best he can
from his position) to tidy up the covers, saying:
“Things
should look neat in case the Prime
Minister decides to pop in.”
(“Hold it – are we talking about matters in a man’s bed or
his head?”)
As
he sat at the computer staring at his empty Inbox
on the screen,
a
man had this thought: “Which is worse: getting mail you're not interested
in,
or
getting no mail at all?
If you take any intellectual or emotional advice -- you took the wrong advice.
If
you ever say, even to yourself, that you have “problems” –
then
you’ve got ‘em for sure.
An
awake man, even ifhe was being swallowed by a lion,
wouldn’t
shout out about it.
What
is there meaningful to say about the inescapable!?
(This by the way, is the stumper question every time they play a quiz game
at
the Imbecile’s Retirement Home.)
“Okay,”
thought one man, “if you can't fast your way to
Enlightenment,
maybe
you can eat your way there.”
Life
provides just enough slack in men’s minds to get most of them
adequately
befuddled.
Everyone feels deeply the drama of life (except the man who-knows-what's-going-on).
When
one man heard of a form of torture whereby a person is stuck repeatedly,
but
not fatally, over a long period of time by a petite dagger, and known as:
“Death
by a thousand small pricks,” he said
to his self:
“This
is what my automatic thoughts are doing to me.
(Although I'm
not sure I would have chosen to refer to them by such a harsh name……
.....but then
again).”
J
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