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Old 22nd August 2003, 08:53 AM   #1
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The "usual person" and the "superperson" ( chapter from a book ).

A chapter from the book "Kuzka's Mother...", also by M. S. Norbekov, that I suppose might be interesting to read.
The whole book can be found here - http://www.translate.ru/url/tran_url...7&psubmit2.y=8

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1. You have born here.
2. Here is your past.
3. The present moment of your life. Now you are here. It is the moment of life which constantly goes on, and with each step the future varies.
4. Your future. It is yet foggy for you.
5. You are slideing there, not knowing where.
6. In the end... No, not death, mortal you. Transition! It when the cycle comes to an end.




For the high-grade person death does not exist, because he sees and knows, that will happen then. And this person has a choice, but you do not, dear walking gastroenteric pathes.

It means, the usual person uses experience which is in a frame between his birth and the present moment. The future for him is abstract. He can not access to the information about the future.

Blind, going on life blindly, receives information from his legs. He makes one step forward and makes sure that there isn't a hole. Then the second step. His life is occupied not with going to the purpose, but chousing a place, where to place his leg.

What is the purpose of your life? "Well...". You do not know yet? You haven't found time to look for it yet?

A "usual person" operates only with information from his past and only what he remembers, what has landed in his consciousness and potters there... With the help of this information he tries to design the future by analogy, on a cliche of the past. Variants are strictly limited with his last experience, unsuccessful attempts, disappointments, bruises, grazes and collected fears.
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Old 22nd August 2003, 09:12 AM   #2
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Nuts.
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Old 22nd August 2003, 09:23 AM   #3
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Ok then... <steps back slowly>

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Old 22nd August 2003, 09:27 AM   #4
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Re: The "usual person" and the "superperson" ( chapter from a book ).

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For the high-grade person death does not exist, because he sees and knows, that will happen then. And this person has a choice, but you do not, dear walking gastroenteric pathes.
Interesting visual image, that.
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Old 22nd August 2003, 09:28 AM   #5
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Sorry, I didn't find that interesting to read.
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Old 22nd August 2003, 09:31 AM   #6
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Is this a new Pillory?
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Old 22nd August 2003, 09:41 AM   #7
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For the high-grade person death does not exist, because he sees and knows, that will happen then. And this person has a choice, but you do not, dear walking gastroenteric pathes.

Seems like just another way of stating that belief in the afterlife makes one superior, right?

Why is it that the "usual" people seem to be skeptics, and yet we make up a minority of the populace? I guess being "usual" is unusual.
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Old 22nd August 2003, 09:49 AM   #8
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But it's got diagrams and mathematical symbols. It must be sigh-un-tiff-icully proven.
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Old 22nd August 2003, 10:16 AM   #9
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Yalel lives?

(No, I don't think this guy is a sock.)
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Old 22nd August 2003, 10:25 AM   #10
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Wow. Those diagrams have convinced me. I now reject rationality and will henceforth live only according to the wisdom of these diagrams.
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