Advice From Janus

 

**** 11:10:04 PM Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Your fiction may lie to you this week.

***11:29:28 PM Monday, August 14, 2000
If your mind has the power to change the world, you should request that laughter become less little.

***11:30:33 PM Tuesday, February 29, 2000
* This is the gist of it. with the original rhyme; I edited a few words to make it scan.
If you want to drink best
      Try to buy on request

***11:18:40 PM Sunday, December 12, 1999
If one yearns to suffer from a sweat of the Divine, one must not fail to examine a primate...

***11:51:24 PM Sunday, June 13, 1999
 Yearning willingly or softly,
     expect gifts from your ache.

***11:15:20 PM Friday, February 12, 1999
hope

    is
 actu
          ally
 your
     guardian
         angel.

***10:17:30 PM Friday, February 12, 1999
Learn to maintain a loving indifference to the way your mind operates.

***10:17:16 PM Friday, February 12, 1999
What appears at the moment to be your 'joie de vivre' will later be seen to be living joyfully.

***9:57:26 PM Friday, February 12, 1999
What appears to be your confusion of reason with intuition will later be seen to be self-development.

***9:50:23 PM Sunday, November 29, 1998
An unclear goal is like being between psychological poison and terror.

***2:08:42 AM Thursday, July 9, 1998
   try
      to
       jump,
      to
           jump
          joy
      full
y
    and joy
      full
y,

      to
  jump joy
      full
y

***2:06:39 AM Thursday, July 9, 1998
We need to know the business or bliss of our own balance to keep track of what can be believed, or what might brighten us.

***1:52:14 AM Thursday, July 9, 1998
We need to know the expertise and escapism of each enormity to keep track of what can be encouraged, of what might extricate us.

***9:30:16 PM Wednesday, October 21, 1998
Random kindness will come to be seen as evolutionary progress.

***1:08:51 PM Saturday, February 22, 1997
You Don't Know How To Act, Here's A Brief List Of Ideas. 1) Be Kind
[This was a title from a poem generated during a test-run of the neo-dadaize function. The input was the last letter my friend Julie wrote to her friends before she died of cancer, at the age of 33. This output is a verbatim (albeit decontextualized and capitalized) quote from that letter. See the poem section for a longer work based on this letter.]

***10:56:08 PM Friday, January 31, 1997
We need to know the game or domain of darkness to keep track of what can be revivified, and what might suffocate us.

***11:23:18 PM Saturday, November 2, 1996
   some of you will be engineer-angelic!

***12:48:07 AM Saturday, November 2, 1996
  Not not enough people will be warrior-hopeful!

***11:06:34 AM Wednesday, July 5, 1995
      The circularity that can be named is not the enduring and comfortable circularity.

***10:24:48 PM Friday, May 17, 1996
If enjoyment were given the power to change a wrong turn in your life, you should demand that it become less phony.

***10:23:34 PM Friday, May 17, 1996
If the concept of 'God' has the power to change self-reference, you should demand that the concept of 'God' become increasingly extroverted.

***10:22:43 PM Friday, May 17, 1996
You should already have tried to be happy.

***10:16:53 PM Friday, May 17, 1996
Learn to maintain a loving indifference to prophets.

***10:16:31 PM Friday, May 17, 1996
Don't give up now, you'll be blessed with a generous bureaucrat.

***12:25:51 AM Thursday, April 11, 1996
Failure to learn from your past actions is like being between acting stupidly and acting stupidly!

***11:57:51 PM Wednesday, April 10, 1996
do you know why I crave an archetypal figure?
         because an archetypal figure is not a mindless bureaucrat.

***5:09:51 AM Sunday, March 31, 1996
       The
        reason why
        heaven
      and
      earth are
         able

     to

         endure

      and
       continue

        thus long
    is
          because

 they
      do
      not act

        from
    any

  wish

     to be
     regarded as personal
      conditions.

***5:12:59 AM Sunday, March 31, 1996
  he treats
    his

       person as if it were

 the Honoured
      Ances
     tor of
     all
  that
       is
    subtle
      and
     wonder

      ful.

***9:45:59 PM Wednesday, March 27, 1996
we
      are
  based on our
           behavior.
        Action
          -
       The
      patterns
           of
  ongoing current events.

***9:43:56 PM Wednesday, March 27, 1996
moral
          philosopher
          s
      know
          the experimental
            ists
     take
       responsibility for
      a
   ction

***9:01:00 PM Saturday, March 16, 1996
        a kiss is like a wise Buddhist:
     both are compassionate.

***8:08:40 PM Saturday, March 16, 1996
Your compulsion to be right might be better viewed as your need to acquire.

***10:00:46 AM Monday, March 11, 1996
Following fashion is like being between a subtle form of slavery and delusion.

***9:19:55 PM Wednesday, March 6, 1996
Your brain is like a deep hole in the ground except that it is more ambitious!

***11:02:43 AM Tuesday, March 5, 1996
Expecting open-mindedness from a friend makes about as much sense as looking to a warehouse worker for artistic expression.

***4:19:53 AM Sunday, March 3, 1996
What appears at the moment to be the concept of 'God' will later be seen to be a different way of living.
[Eds. note: This is a good one-sentence summary of Ludwig Wittgenstein's later works.]

***4:15:31 AM Sunday, March 3, 1996
Your repressed emotionality is probably a form of psychological suicide.

***12:15:36 PM Monday, February 26, 1996
 your cerebral cortex is actually a leadership vacuum.

***10:15:27 AM Sunday, February 25, 1996
 Looking to a psychologist for your failure to consider alternative metaphors is like using living joyfully for a maladaptive fantasy.

***2:11:51 PM Friday, February 23, 1996
Being branded as a sinner is like being between the concept of 'God' and paralysis.

***2:06:34 PM Friday, February 23, 1996
What appears to be laziness will later be seen to be allowing yourself to have fun!

***8:15:36 PM Tuesday, February 20, 1996
A merely political truth is like being between a new way of thinking and a metaphorical form of death.

***9:06:10 PM Monday, February 12, 1996
  person who dislikes you: fantastic banality

***3:11:43 PM Monday, February 12, 1996
Your hidden hatred is like being between a failure to express yourself emotionally and failing to understand your parents.

***2:48:36 PM Monday, February 12, 1996
Desire might be better viewed as a subtle form of psychological suicide.

***2:43:55 PM Monday, February 12, 1996
You will know why I suggest that in the coming 2 days you are going to have to minimize murder.
[Your JanusNode will always give you excellent advice.]

***2:41:16 PM Monday, February 12, 1996
   your inability to act freely reveals the universe

***10:41:49 AM Sunday, February 11, 1996
 What seems like understanding the situation may actually be falling in love with an illusion.

***4:27:42 AM Sunday, February 11, 1996
If elementary psychological understanding had the power to change your existence, you should pray that elementary psychological understanding become less fluffy.

***4:27:00 AM Sunday, February 11, 1996
 If what people say about you were given the power to change the way things are, you should ask that it become increasingly astute.

***4:16:49 AM Sunday, February 11, 1996
 stupidity is like your failure to look after yourself except that it is more noncommittal.

***11:51:58 PM Thursday, November 16, 1995
Try to understand how the joy you can engender in others is connected to pride.

***11:37:29 PM Thursday, November 16, 1995
 Looking to a fuzzy living saint for money is like expecting an insipid notorious monster to teach you about self-esteem!

***11:00:41 PM Wednesday, November 1, 1995
What seems like an unwillingness to work may actually be the middle path.

***12:37:29 PM Wednesday, July 12, 1995
What seems like unexpressed emotion may actually be a lack of generousity.

***12:37:37 AM Tuesday, June 13, 1995
What seems like the human nervous system may actually be your ambitions.

***10:55:49 PM Friday, April 15, 1994
  why are ethical important childish actions
       important?
   because actions touch nonetheless.

***10:48:06 PM Friday, April 15, 1994
    several perfect opinions extend from perfectible you:

***10:46:07 PM Friday, April 15, 1994
   must a lot of bandwagons dictate lovingly and dully?

***3:28:29 PM Saturday, March 19, 1994
chocolate constructs like an axiom:
       they both sustain

***3:23:07 PM Saturday, March 19, 1994
a rhythm is a mother.

***12:38:50 PM Saturday, March 19, 1994
      too many of us diversify,
    our ambiguities brutally and warily retreat from comfort

***12:25:51 PM Saturday, March 19, 1994
    Imagine combining artistries with sins!

***11:22:00 PM Monday, March 14, 1994
   Imagine a combination celebration / psychoanalysis!

***10:02:37 AM Friday, April 9, 1993
crazy data paralyze.

***12:22:03 AM Friday, April 9, 1993
  most of us depreciate equally.

***12:14:25 AM Friday, April 9, 1993
desires want gifts from you

***6:14:33 PM Thursday, April 8, 1993
Imagine a combination coroner / concertmaster!