B. U. G. S.

I find reading recent comments exhilarating.

A verb occurred to me that would only be understandable by a person who has been a regular member, even if is not commenting but auditing the course carefully.

That verb is “porching.”

I sit up and take notice when people begin to tie things together. I sit up and notice when people are talking about what they DID, like Truck Roy and White Rabbit, how they HANDLE actual experiences with our way of defining our message, developing out own way of thinking, and at the same time introducing different kinds of people to THINKING.

There are words like intellectualizing and preaching and so forth, but porching, among us, does a lot to explain itself. The family on the porch is listening to old wisdom and children who are not afraid to give their opinions.

Sure, most of what young people have to say will seem obvious to them later on. But even in a normal family each person is not afraid to go ahead and say it. They say it in terms which have been worked out inside the family, inside the SOCIETY.

Porch talk, among other things, is not from Mommy Professor, but from LIVING.

Parkinson, of Parkinson’s Law fame years ago, pointed out that Karl Marx’s basic problem was that he had no one near him to say “Balderdash!” That is, of course, Mommy Professor’s problem too, and that Marx is underneath all Political Correctness, left AND right, is not coincidental.

But none of the words like over intellectualizing and so forth really lead to what we might call porching. If I could give you a clear explanation of what porching is, we would just have another Wordism.

No, I want you think some about that verb. It is the essence of a real society. It is the essence of what the family group can give that the media take away. It is THINKING. It is trying things out. It is saying “Balderdash!”

I have said repeated that what I feel I have to offer is a WAY OF THINKING. That cannot be defined, but you can sure as hell tell what it’s NOT. But really just the word itself is what I have to offer here, since we all have a clear idea what “porching” is, and only we do.

I will give one example of what “porching” is NOT. It is NOT Family Values. That is simply a way to indoctrinate your children against the ruling indoctrination. A healthy family raised on porch talk can have members who end up on the right and the left, and most of them will freely admit they don’t give a damn about a lot of stuff.

I think mantra think on the verb porching is worth one of our thousands of articles here.

After all, the whole point of Mantra thinking is that I give you things to chew on, not that I teach you some rigid doctrine. I am not Mommy Professor. I am not Family Values. As long as you clearly understand what the traps of Wordism are, you will have to proceed to build your own world view.

Here as on the porch, The Old Man’s job is to give some good ideas on how to follow your own path. I can give you invaluable practice is seeing what is just plain silly. Then you can start off clean and fresh and go out like we did from the porch, happily thinking the other is way off tilt on a lot of things.

But we are learning here what is just plain silly. Since porching went out of fashion, no one else seems to have a way of doing that.