How's everybody doing?

[Dekalb_Blues]

~ Thank you for asking, Jeremy -- and how are you?

Characteristic View of Moi Blithely Enjoying My Typical Daily Constitutional Here in the Grand Metropolis:


Winding Down Gracefully from Previous Career (Coercive Persuasion/Psywar):


Retirement Hobbies:
     Sharing Wisdom in the Bosom of Family

    Music, Evil-Sorcery, and (Now That the Wife's Out of the Picture) Bird-Fancying

    Meditation upon & Contemplation of Ultimate Essence of Reality

    Endless Pursuit of Learning New Stuff about Things and New Things about Stuff from Those In The Know


Projected New Career: Ideological-Futures Investment Consultant:







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Remarks from the Wise, an Almost Random Sampling:

"Q: What is a fundamental mistake of Man's?  A: To think that he is alive, when he has merely fallen asleep in
life's waiting-room."

"The stupidest man I ever knew had a favourite saying. It was: 'What do you think I am, stupid or something?' "

"There is one ailment which really is the worst of all. It is the one which makes you think that not you, but
others, are the sufferers and you are free from it. In mild forms, it concedes that you may suffer from it a
little, but that it is others who have it in a far worse form."

"Assume you are part-hypocrite and part heedless, and you will not be far wrong."

"Knowledge is something which you can use. Belief is something which uses you."

"Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the 'veils' which have to be dissolved in the mind."


"Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions."

"Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed. They attract you because what
they say or do appeals to your greed. This is concealed only by their appearance. If you stop listening to their
words and look at the effect, you will soon see it."

"M.C.O. stands for Mutual Comfort Operation. One cannot understand the complex advantages and otherwise of
human relations without knowing the quantity and quality of mutual comfort inherent in any social contact."

"Talent is the presence of ability and the absence of understanding about the source and operation of knowledge."

"Show me a man who thinks that he knows what 'good' is, and I will probably be able to show you a horror of a
person. Show me a person who really knows what 'good' is, and I will show you that he almost never uses the word."

"Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information."

"Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals
most of the real human history."

"History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant."

"There is no wisdom where there is no common sense: it cannot under those conditions find any expression."

"You can learn more in half an hour's direct contact with a source of knowledge (no matter the apparent reason
for the contact or the subject of the transaction) than you can in years of formal effort."

"People who speak or act in an ordinary fashion are most likely to be those who have been the recipients of
higher experiences. But because they do not rage around, wild-eyed, people think that they are very ordinary
folk and therefore not aware of anything unknown to the general run of man."

"The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service."

"You are still adrift while you still think that a means is an end."

"When people have a hard task to do -- one which stretches them -- they become less concerned with trivial matters."


"You have not forgotten to remember: you have remembered to forget. But people can forget to forget. That is
just as important as remembering to remember -- and generally more practical."

"You can keep going on much less attention than you crave."

"There are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first
group; there is less competition there."

"It is the message, not the man, which is important."

"Enlightenment must come little by little -- otherwise it would overwhelm."


... and these enigmatic words of Dr. Seuss, summing up most of Man's endeavours to date:
"When beetles fight these battles in a a bottle with their paddles and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles...
they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle bottle paddle battle."