Ever hear a song that you can never understand any of the words to, yet you still try to hum or sing along? i do this all the time, and it's embarassing as fucking hell. on a slightly different point, did you ever feel the need to go back and buy the album or whatever to see what the lyrics really were, only to find out that when you finally could understand the words in question, they now sounded different and you couldn't 'unhear' them back to the way they sounded in he first place?  lastly, did you ever have the feeling that comparing before and after you knew the lyrics, your abstract 'nothing-words' sounded better than the actual lyrics the guy was singing, even though they made so sense?

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another analogy of this would be comedy, showbusiness, magic, or whatever. the only funny comedians are the ones that stay one step ahead of the rest - noone honestly laughs at second day old shit they've heard already.  what has made comedy into this intense do-or-die? it's the fact that they know that second day old shit is what all the junk comedians like sitcom writers and kids on the playground use, you know, the kinds of people with no closeness with their base creativity.  there's been so much of this repetition shit lately, it's pushed the status buoy way up, up to the point where it's either funny as hell or old as fuck. anyhow, i'm off my point. you have the shit people on the bottom that ruin the comedy by overplaying it and everything, which would be like saying the zen is in very bad karma for this field. on the other hand, you have the true players and the excellers that push it farther and farther, extrapolating a new peice every day.  so, the true players of this field have to go to extreme precautions not to be caught with their pants down because being rooted (or being day old shit in this case) is so much worse than being impressionistic.

the epitome of this skill is in my opinion what seinfeld does. not seinfeld himself, he's occasionally wrong, but more of what he does - he brings out deep shit and puts it on a very colloquial level. this intermixing of thought levels is half of what the goal is. the other half is to be truthful. some of his stuff is so true it hurts.  if his form was off at all, all those bumps and notches in our mind would catch something on the way up. like i said, he's sometimes wrong (and this does happen), but it's the symbol of the effort that counts.  i'm sure at one time or another, we've all said to ourselves "shit.. i could have said that, i know i've felt that exact same thing." well, being there and being able to recall it, especially on such a simplified and truthful level, are two entirely different things, i hope i'm showing.  the fines bits of his comedy are the ones that are so simplistic and true, yet noone sees (like the perfect mystery novel where the answer is sitting in front of your face the entire book, yet you never see it).  on a base sense, that's what my purpose is here - to show you the truth in things you already knew, on a colloquial level.

on a higher level, assuming people progress deeper and deeper into the brain, they'll isolate out finer and finer points that trigger emotion. there might come a day when comedians will do nothing more than stand on the stage and say things like "take neuron 163, cross it with 167B, push past the third blocker, let it fall back halfway, and look at yourself", and the entire audience will laugh out of their minds.  Eerie, isn't it.
 
 
 

here's the consequence of extrapolation when dealing with emotions.  when i'm thinking a certain feeling, i'll naturally try to trace it (Zen S). However, once i know that feeling's roots, it's sort of like figuring out the lyrics to a song.. it really comes down to how much fancy you hold to yourself, because if you root an emotion out and hate yourself, that touch of hate will be added to the mix of feelings you hold to that situation.  however if you see yourself as pretty kewl, you will in fact see your roots better than you saw your cloudy emotions. you can't fake this.

the root is a fixed point, like the truth of the lyrics - they're set in stone. if you'd rather fantasize and make up nothing words to interpret the art yourself, then you'd be better off interpreting things on the topmost level. if you're rather the type that likes to see things as they are and be sure, root them out.  know however that whatever emotions your bring into the experience will be put down on these levels (assuming you get there) - in other words, don't be looking to change yourself if you've got a bad attitude starting off.

for me, i find my zen popping up at this point, like a lot of other things. i found out today that when i took something out, i know i'll pretty much be thinking of it differently from now on. but, according to zen, i can leave it right there. i know the experience will be just as unique as before, only now i've brought a new variable into it - one that changes and alters things according to self-perception.  however you see this is up to you, but also realize that the closer you become to yourself, the initial bad or good feeling of anxiety you had will disappear and will be numbed by the realization that you're becoming more and more of yourself, cancelling everything out. the closer and closer you come, the less things will change once you've crossed the border from emotion to realization. for me, i used to laugh at things but stop when i found out their root; now i'm seeing myself laugh all the way through.  what's left of my emotional recalls, i try to preserve in the same way a DJ preserves his records, cleaning them and making sure they're kept free of scratches.

if you keep at it and progress into your brain, you'll be seeing more and more into yourself.  The initial feelings, whatever they were, will disappear as you and your inner self intertwine more and more. at the final point, consciousness will be 100% functionally driven, and people might see this as stange or mute, but there won't be a need for any of life's bullshit then - your consciousness will be perfectly matched to your base self, and everything will be perfect.
 
 

one simple touch of a source on a debate has powerful consquences - timing plays a big role.  put yourself into a situation where you're a person whose topmost layer of the brain is where you sit in your consciousness all day and have th butt end of all the hatred and shallow pity you've felt in your life - it's made you into a person who twists everything around on that level in order to dwindle everything down for your deeper layers so they don't hurt too much.  this is the layer that artists, entrepreneurs, and other people trying to affect your emotions always try to avoid.

look at movies. in the early days, you'd see a distressful sequence with played up music and shit like that. nowadays, much of the distress in movies has to come from the events themselves - background sound (if any) if usually natural, like a thunderstorm for sadness or a sunny day for happiness.  this is because the filmmakers knew at a pretty early stage that they had to adapt and run from the kind of shitty filmmaking that ways being procured by using a steady mix of 'bad music / bad emotion' in films. instead, they had to use new mixes to throw the audience off (thwart their natural human instinct that tries to throw them ahead of the situation, avoiding the emotional response they love and try to avoid at the same time). as much as the movie industry tried harder and harder to think up new combinations (more complex storytelling), it was constantly being raced by the audiences to be outmaneuvered.

in another point, the use of timing with extrapolation can be very effective, but also can be sometimes looked down upon.  people that rely on pointing out the root in some situations (extrapolating them) almost always from then on are exempt from that conversation, because puts forth that sense of fucked up reality everyone can relate to in the topmost part of the brain. this is what i've heard people say 'getting inside another person's head'. for example, my sister's a real bitch to me. all that overbearing 'too good for you' bullshit and all. so, what i did to hert just now was say something to the effect of 'go ahead beth, show me all that overbearing goodness a sister can' to her. this element of sarcasm sat on the top level while the message worked its way down, triggering feelings of remorse for when someone had done that to her (and recurse the root of why she's doing it to me now). within seconds her attitude had changed.

It's looked down upon because i see it as sort of an easy way out. when i said that to my sister, i didn't even really need to look at why she was being an overbearing ass to me - i might have done something to deserve that reaction.  if you've really gotten something out of this, take this example as a lesson - it's a power that few people have, and that makes it dangerous. while writing these i'm constantly maturing, but simply by reading them you aren't going through any of the ordeals i am so takr it to heart that they might not be right for you yet. power in the hands of those it wasn't meant for is sometimes dangerous.. albert einstein once said something to the effect of 'great minds are always being held back by mediocre minds with power'.
 
 
 

everyone extrapolates themselves, too. it's the things you think about yourself when you're walking down the street or talking with someone - the things you try to hide or change to hide from others. everybody has this a little bit, but i think it's silly how everyone expects others to not know it's there as they treat others like they don't know each other have it as well.  by seeing what a person pays close attention to (what points about themselves they try to cover up on a top level), it's easier to look deeper into a person. this can make very, very easy prey if the attacker knows how to undermine these points.  seeing when a person smiles, what things they add to their speech, and what a person avoids are all cues that lead directly to extrapolated points within a person.  extrapolated points are usually the weak spots of a person, so if you a) know where they stem from and b) know what sets them off, these two put together can crush anyone mentally. in my sister's case, she knew she was a bitch. simply completing the realization within her took her own extrapolation of her telling herself not to be a bitch and turned it around on her. passively forcing people to fuck with their own mind is infinitely easier than fucking with their minds directly.
 
 
on the other side of the spectrum, people who talk less and act more (the loner character in westerns, the vampire hunter D type) are seen as either too fucked up to be talking or too bold to need any of this speech at all.  then, on top of that, you've got fools who think they are this type of person, from seeing it on the big screen too many times.  everyone tries to put on the character that they have no extrapolated points; that they have no self introspection; they they don't need any - they're fine. these are often the easiest type of people to see the weaknesses in, since noone really is the totally secure type.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
and as always, by putting this entire account of point-hitting into your conscious layer, i've added yet another new variable to your mind. i can't tell you what this variable is - that's only for you to know.