I had a habit of asking God — in my own personal language — what to do in what I called ‘critical situations.’ We generally carried on a pretty thriving dialogue
[generally while people around me were saying things like:
“Look at that guy talking to himself” or
“What’s up with that guy?”
If you couldn’t find the word ‘intense’ in the dictionary when you went there looking for it — well, it wasn’t only my fault. Other people are, too, and other people have the word overused on them.
Until it becomes trite.
My rule?
Say something when you say something.
I thought this was a great addendum to Ben Franklin’s “code” of silence:
Franklin took the view that
ᶜ⁴unnecessary speech could lead to misunderstandings, conflicts, or the expression of thoughts that might later be regretted. By practicing silence, one could avoid unnecessary disputes and maintain a sense of control over one’s words.ᶜ⁴
[Note on notation: enclosing the words in the ᶜ⁴ symbol, either side, denotes that those words were taken ‘horse’s mouth’ from ChatGPT4. For now that’s the only crutch besides visual and auditory references which I will use.]
^^that 189 words could again lead us anywhere, but since by now I’ve already shown you that I can make sure that you follow me even when you don’t believe you can follow me (at times you won’t, but then five minutes later it will dawn on you — no, it really will. I’m just sort of ‘talking a different language’ right at the moment.
Now I will tell you how I solved humanity’s greatest puzzle:
Where to find the next fire?
Clearly we didn’t know where it was. I mean, I’m not enough of a historian…
ᶜ⁴The mastery of fire by first-order primates, specifically Homo erectus, is believed to have occurred around 1 to 1.7 million years ago. Evidence suggests that Homo erectus was capable of controlling and using fire for various purposes, such as cooking food and providing warmth.ᶜ⁴
um…yeah, so the next fire had to be something like that, it was pretty clear to see. The next fire had to be something which…
“could be used for various purposes”
“for providing [perhaps a different kind of] warmth”
Perhaps even for heating up a fiery vat of caustic words and throwing them right into someone else’s eyes, right
M.C. & E.M.?
As soon as I posed myself a purpose — this happened gradually, and I’ll explain it in various other places — the first time I posed myself a purpose it wasn’t a purpose I came up with. Happened to be another man.
A man named Mann I might’ve found at Mann.
“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”
^^and that 262 plus the 189 gives you 451 — and since that’s my number we’re on the same exact part of the same exact page, ‘to some degree’ and I’m going to spend a few more of the budget of the whale of a lead I’ve got on the rest of you (despite that I’m standing in the same place as you<<<ponder that one for a while) and explain to you in greater length how things work in what amounts to
“a new universe worth of dimensions.”
This follows in the next piece, “Fractal staircases & Super position hunters.”
This one is done; please be fair with others — which is to say “treat them equivalently to the way you treat yourself [to this I shudder for a moment, because I know the kinds of inner battles we wage].
Treat others as well as you treat yourself and the world will be transformed by the changes. It cannot not be.
As with all my pieces, I wish you would please do me the respect of — if you’re going to clap — clap once and once only. If you decide you wish to respect that rule, I’ve no doubt you can also respect the rule of only clapping if you’ve placed 100 of your own words in the comments.
I feel as though others may appreciate this [i.e., this method of counting] and so — unless you have a reasonably-well-thought-out reason for clapping in a manner which doesn’t adhere to the same behavior set people silently agree to on a golf course or tennis court, please clap only once if you’re going to clap at all.
