Cognitive fascism, patience and gifts, to dream, choices, paradise, and hell

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We believe what we understand, only what we understand, because we understand it. Cognitive fascism.

One need only wait, and not wait. The only true gift that is given us is the patience to not burst outside and play with what we are given, but to wait around for more gifts.

The comfortable warmth of a busy public toilet seat.

Lay me down tired and lonely

from these forever days and nights

and days.

Lay me down far from the fire

that I might remember nothing more.

To hold what I am losing,

but never lose it.

To grow cold and weary,

and then to sleep,

to dream

forever.

We are the choices we have not made, more so than the choices we have.

Paradise is merely gratitude for being in hell.

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These fragments are taken from unpublished writings by Jack Haas, selected from the notebooks 1990-2005.