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     Hence, I go back to the chorus of this particular refrain and ask you again, "What can truly be said about anything that has already happened, already been done?  What's there to be said about it?"  In ordinary life, it's, "Say it again, Sam," write it down, put it away, read it, read it to somebody else, read how somebody else critiqued the first person's words, think about it, then you have something to say about it.  If we are going to strike out talking about that which has already happened, what are you going to talk about?  Obviously, this is not any sort of worldwide potential tenet.

     But I would like to point out to you that the part of life's operations furthest from the center core of life's own consciousness makes the most noise.  Who talks the most in the factory of life?  Just at the ordinary level, you can see that the people that talk the most are those who know the least, who seem to have the least significance to life.

     Your continuing motto toward yourself, not other people, just yourself, should be "Shut the Fuck Up."  90% of the people have psychiatric problems because of poor posture, but you should understand that you've got poor posture in general -- that you keep yourself bogged down drifting along being you.  And one way to look at it is -- you do it because you talk too much.  You talk too much to the person you live with, you talk too much to your parents, you talk too much to people working at convenience stores, and of course, I hate to be dirty, but you talk too much to yourself.  You should be able to get a very good glimpse, if not a very direct whiff of the truthfulness of this, that what seems to be old you drifting along with all your shortcomings, and all your problems, would all change drastically.  I am trying to sound fairly intellectual and understate it, but all of these so-called problems, difficulties, shortcomings, and self condemnations would be gone if you could Shut Up.  It has got to be a willful and specific act, of course.  It doesn't apply of course, to you who are hard-wired to be afraid to speak, or those of you who just plain hardly talk at all.  That doesn't count, you know that.  You have got to willfully do it.  And just because some of you hardly talk externally, doesn't mean you hardly talk internally.  Maybe you fool somebody somewhere, but you sure as hell haven't fooled me.  I know how it goes.  Your motto has got to be -- willfully -- Shut Up. JC talk 268