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Jed McKenna

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Jed Rant: Your life is based on a....
« on: March 03, 2016, 02:37:02 am »
Dear member (yes, I mean you, the reader of this)

I submit the following premise: You life is base on a true story.

I'll start with my meaning of ''story''. It's a narrative that''s made up. There is no such thing as a true story because, by it's very nature, a story is not the actual thing or event. It's about the thing or event. Anything about something must be to at least a degree, made up. Minimally one degree removed. It's all fiction and non-fiction is non-existent.

“Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

You, dear member, spend far more time in your head going over your stories, rehashing interpretations, analysis (usually about what he/she meant when he/she said, ''blah blah'', drawing up old memories (a truly fictional bases for further stories) and just generally not being present to what is, i.e. your are living inside a story. What's even stranger is, it's not your story. Contemplate that one.

Perhaps as a child you can remember a parent reading you a bedtime story. Some of those are pretty demented. However, after reading it your parent may have said something like, ''Don't worry, there really is no such thing as a big bad wolf, it's just a story dear, now off to sleep with you.''. That usually takes most of the sting out of your bedtime trauma. Snooze time.

So, Jed plays your parent (I'm probably old enough) and I am telling you that.... it's just a story! What you are living in, the world you spend most of your time in, is JUST A STORY!

Now, you won't be impacted much by a story unless you believe it to be true because you ignore what you think is untrue. Certainly varying degrees of belief in stories exist, but any degree of belief in them is insanity. That's correct, you are insane and the first step is to admit that believing hallucinations are real, intangibles actually exist and you know what's really going on (that's a real laugh) is a comprehensive definition of insanity. I like the follow quotes:

“A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
― George Carlin

In the land of the insane, one who is beginning to experience sanity will inevitably feel lonely, quite apart from the mad(ening) crowd. Don't be concerned if you experience this, it's a very good indicator, regardless of the push back from friends and relatives (forgive them, they don't have a clue). Just understand that they must defend their mental constructs, their prisons, beliefs, memories and thoughts, otherwise they too might go sane. They don't know they are doing this because they are all in a deep trance.

“The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.”
― Nikola Tesla

I have specifically written this Rant for one member, YOU, and you know who you are. Well, maybe you don't yet, but you will.

Love ya, Jed.

P.S. Remember, thinking is the disease, not the cure, and thinking about thinking will not stop thinking, only add to it. Now it's you turn... what do you do about it?
« Last Edit: March 03, 2016, 03:10:32 am by Jed McKenna »

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guest101

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Re: Jed Rant: Your life is based on a....
« Reply #1 on: March 03, 2016, 05:04:58 am »
What an incredible good news Jed!!
My life is just that a simple collections of stories and stories about the stories.
Making it not “my” life any more.
Meaning I am guilty of nothing.
The best news one could receive.
I guess it’s time for a celebration.
Cheers!!

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Re: Jed Rant: Your life is based on a....
« Reply #2 on: March 03, 2016, 07:09:28 am »
Thanks for the affirmation.

But, just wondering: how old is that meat-suit of yours you inhabit?

Just to make sure you're old enough to play my daddy.  ;D

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Re: Jed Rant: Your life is based on a....
« Reply #3 on: March 03, 2016, 09:44:44 am »
roger that

thanks Jed

Jed McKenna

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Re: Jed Rant: Your life is based on a....
« Reply #4 on: March 03, 2016, 09:46:31 am »
Dear Frits,

Not old enough to be your old man, I'm pretty sure of that.

Dear Ferry:

Yes, you are not guilty of anything, and.... no one else is either.

Lovely, isn't it.

Jed.

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« Reply #5 on: March 03, 2016, 10:01:25 am »
The thing that troubles me with the story story is that it needs story too, to be told. The memory of the parents reading the book is too a story. So is the memroy of reading Nietzsche and Morrison. So is the memory of the post, a moment after reading it. So is the first part of this thought after starting it.

That's all fine, maybe that's the point. But it's stories that got me here trying to see beyond the stories. What tool do we have to abandon all stories?

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« Reply #6 on: March 03, 2016, 10:08:18 am »
"P.S. Remember, thinking is the disease, not the cure, and thinking about thinking will not stop thinking, only add to it. Now it's you turn... what do you do about it?"

Thinking happens. more and more I see i'm in spectator mode instead of engaged. it's nice all watch the drama, stories etc. So for me...let 'it' think and enjoy the ride.

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« Reply #7 on: March 03, 2016, 10:11:12 am »
i am the capacity for story.

“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
― George Carlin

In the land of the insane, one who is beginning to experience sanity will inevitably feel lonely, quite apart from the mad(ening) crowd. Don't be concerned if you experience this, it's a very good indicator, regardless of the push back from friends and relatives (forgive them, they don't have a clue). Just understand that they must defend their mental constructs, their prisons, beliefs, memories and thoughts, otherwise they too might go sane. They don't know they are doing this because they are all in a deep trance.

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Now it's you turn... what do you do about it?


i choose to not understand that 'they' must defend anything. 'they' are just as capable of walking out of the prison as i am. if there are no others, it cannot be otherwise.
what do i do about it?
wake in(to) sanity.

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« Reply #8 on: March 04, 2016, 02:27:07 am »
Dear Cognizer,

What tool do we have to abandon all stories?

What about acceptance?
Accept that it’s all stories, it will take the hook out every story.
Stories can be great, believing them………………. is less optimal.
Wanting to abandon them is like throwing gasoline over a fire.

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« Reply #9 on: March 07, 2016, 09:16:15 am »
You wrote that for me and I thank you for it. Veneer is thinning?  And the pursuit to eliminate untruth continues. But I could do more. I could put more energy in.  Laziness lingers. The fire is not hot enough.

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« Reply #10 on: March 07, 2016, 11:26:24 am »
 :-* Love you !


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« Reply #11 on: March 07, 2016, 04:48:23 pm »
Thank you for the message Jed.

It somehow felt a little like it was adressed to mySELF.

A planet of the insane? It made me laugh.. but at the other hand.. I don't know if we can really laugh about it that much.. Ah well, it's all a joke.

The loneliness part struck me. Because Ive been trying to avoid a little nothingness for myself for some while.
But no matter how you change things. It all comes back to just one thing. Let's just give it no name.

It's a void.

My eyes burn by reading the text, but it'll fade away as well. As the one that sees through "my" eyes. Now, yesterday, tomorrow.

Can you LOVE truth? as far as something like love exists. That must be a trap!

Thanks

Perhaps untill the next reply ;)




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Re: Jed Rant: Your life is based on a....
« Reply #12 on: March 07, 2016, 10:40:22 pm »
Perhaps...

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Re: Jed Rant: Your life is based on a....
« Reply #13 on: March 09, 2016, 07:13:56 am »
Now it's you turn... what do you do about it?

What is there to do, I ask you?!!!

Just breath and be and then do the next thing I guess.
The story will take care of itself as it always does anyways, whatever that is.
Of course I don't know what I'm talking about.

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« Reply #14 on: March 09, 2016, 06:25:05 pm »
or maybe you do know what you're talking about. maybe you would have to, at least to some degree,  in order to even carry out the impulse to contribute some(no)thing, especially when silence is so obviously...           more comfortable.

what do you know, really?