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       Jed Rant: Your life is based on a....
   DIR By: Jed McKenna
       Date: March 3, 2016, 2:37 am
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       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?
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       Re: Jed Rant: Your life is based on a....
   DIR By: guest101
       Date: March 3, 2016, 5:04 am
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       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....
   DIR By: Frits
       Date: March 3, 2016, 7:09 am
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       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....
   DIR By: lionix
       Date: March 3, 2016, 9:44 am
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       roger that
       thanks Jed
       #Post#: 18620--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Jed Rant: Your life is based on a....
   DIR By: Jed McKenna
       Date: March 3, 2016, 9:46 am
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       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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       Re: Jed Rant: Your life is based on a....
   DIR By: Cognizer
       Date: March 3, 2016, 10:01 am
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       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?
       #Post#: 18622--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Jed Rant: Your life is based on a....
   DIR By: lionix
       Date: March 3, 2016, 10:08 am
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       "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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       Re: Jed Rant: Your life is based on a....
   DIR By: mariam
       Date: March 3, 2016, 10:11 am
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       i am the capacity for story.
       --- Quote from: Jed McKenna link ---
       >
       > “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.
       >
       > ...
       >
       > Now it's you turn... what do you do about it?
       >
       >
       --- End Quote ---
       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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       Re: Jed Rant: Your life is based on a....
   DIR By: guest101
       Date: March 4, 2016, 2:27 am
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       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.
       #Post#: 18730--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Jed Rant: Your life is based on a....
   DIR By: Hugh
       Date: March 7, 2016, 9:16 am
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       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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