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During the tornado alert, Jane and Ellen explain to houseguests that if a tornado comes everyone should grab a pillow and race for the pantry. The next day, Quay asks how do we know if the tornado is coming? After some hooing and hahing, everyone agrees that what was meant was, if you feel nervous hide in the pantry with a pillow over yer head...

Textical And Tactical
Some cultists were sitting around concentrating in hopes of perceiving the Authentic Activity. "Urk" saz a walking-by, "take time out for a bath, wont you?" One cultist did, whereupon the others concentrated on ignoring this sinner.

Recognizing The Ground When It Is Hidden In An Easter Egg
The tricky aspect of this exercise is that we alas are also 'hidden in an easter egg' whether we now it or not.
On the one hand, hoopla, we are in the same general area. On the two hand uh-oh, we think we're not. Hence a bunch of searching, most commonly for a Hidden Egg-Shaped Object Decorated With Bright Gay Designs...

If Cat Dog Crow
If a dog wont share yer dinner you'd best go hungry, but eat confidently of a dish the cat disdains.
Crows are useless to you in this regard for a crow will eat an unclean thing.
Everyone whose humerous expectations were dashed by the word 'unclean' can take this opportunity to revive their hopes.
Or, not,

SubaNova
Some folks cry at the drop of a hat -- even if it's not their hat.

Camelcade Clopping Up Yore Driveway
Most ammuricans employ the sound kal-vah-ree to indicate either 'soldiers on horses, possibly rescuers' or the Nazarene's crucified agony'. This in spite of having, ready to hand, two different sounds ie: cavalry(galloping rescuers) and Calvary (the sacrifice).
What might be operating in a society wherein nearly everyone nearly always makes this identical 'Freudian slip'?

Secret of the Fortunate
The big important secret of the fortunate is, that calling someone 'fortunate' is a disguised complaint.

Pruning the Rose Forest
A coupla neighbors were haiving a chat over the back fence and one said "Would you mind telling me...what do you do, when you wake in the middle of the night?" "O that's simple enough," said the other, "I get up at once and go on about my business." "No no!" cried the first, "what's the matter with you, I'm asking about an insomnia remedy, you nitwit!"

Some local denizens are auditing An Advanced Psychology. After two or three tapes, some auditors stop calling this activity 'the class' and substitute 'the advancement'.

Sometimes interpersonals become strifish whereupon one auditor further specifies the activity as 'the struggle to advance'.

Thought's Activities and Works
Thought: Dirt and clutter might be demonic.

Activity: A bunch more thoughts on the order of 'just as easily mightn't be', etcetera...
Thought: Notice the above activity and identify its motivational source.
Activity: Write a cosmic about it and learn from other's responses.
Thought: Is my mind a democracy then?
Activity: spontaneous mild reorganization.
Thought: Given lamentably word-association habits of mind, how can we discover anything about actual effects of dirt and clutter, let alone whether or not 'cleanliness is next to godliness' does indeed imply the reverse....
Activity: Reorganize livingspace into dirty cluttered and clean uncluttered areas, and note effects.
Observation: Thoughts do engender activities and activities are not works. I suspect all this neurotic emphasis on cleanliness and orderliness is yet another toilet-training souvenir.

Psychology is personal, and as such is unlikely to 'make sense' to anyone other than the person.

Spiders Like Books, Lions Like Lions
Some people like fish, and some don't. Most people who report fondness for fish mean that they like to eat them.
Often enough, people say to very young children 'I could just eat you up' and suchlike.. However by and large we do not address such remarks to cows chickens apple trees fish fields of corn or any other relatives whom we actually do consume.

The Dangers of Breaking With Tradition
When the Anglos discovered that whales form an ancient and highly-developed civilization, they broke with tradition and did not murder everyone and steal all their stuff. (This was partly on account of whales don seem to have any stuff and also are an Endangered Species.) However having broken with tradition, the Angloes were at a loss as to how to proceed. Eventually, this message was sent:
'Hi! We have discovered your civilization!'

Perils of Breaking With Tradition
Discovering elates us and serves to remind that oui don't know everything yet, which's generally a relief. Although we may hear tell of higher consciousness or whale civilization or compassionate wisdom etcetera, we are not in act experiencing these words, are oui. Two centuries after the sending of the message came this response:
'O stalwart enterprising discoverers! Cease filth manufacture!'

Some Salutary Botanicals
Leaf Mold
some folks think
death acts
as an eraser.
This's rather more
wishing
than thinking.
Mugwort Don't ruin yore life pursuing health.
Sunflower Pollen gilded a stinkbug --
Hey, Presto!
the wind blew it grey again.

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