Page 3 - Newsletter 2014 Winter Web Final

TWO WORLDS - PART I

transcribed from a talk given by Rhondell . . . located at http://sanityisland.com/2worlds.htm

We're IN this world but not OF it.
I’m usually flexible about what I talk about so I listen to what people have to say and decide well maybe that’s the thing
to talk about. So we’re going to talk about two worlds for a minute. We all exist with them. We’ve all heard the old
statement “We’re in this world but not of it.” So let’s try to see what that comes out with and maybe we can make it
kind of worthwhile.

The Manmade World | The Real World of Living Beings
So we’ll split down the middle and we’ll put a line across and we've got the Manmade World over here, the manmade
world, and we all live in it, everyday of the week. And we have the Real World of Living Beings. And we are OF that
world, we are living beings. And if we get those confused it can probably cause us a lot of unnecessary aggravation.

And if there’s anything I don’t like it’s aggravation. So if I can just miss some of them it helps a whole lot.

Manmade World: Machines, Ideas, Ideals, Standards, Games
So the manmade world is the world of machines, ideas, ideals, standards, few other things maybe, and games. So we
can make machines and we set standards for them, right John? And if they don’t, we’d scrap them. Or holler at

somebody, real loud. I was down in John’s shop the other day and some of the machines weren’t going according to
standards. They making noises, and they weren’t supposed to make noises. And so that hassled a little bit. Caused a
whole slowdown. So we can set the standard for a machine and if it don’t fit it, there’s something wrong with it. Human
beings are not machines, they’re living beings.

Ideas
We can set up an idea, I can invent on and I can go out and propagate it a little bit and give it to lots of people, I might
even set me up a school somewhere and put out these ideas, and you could come study, and if you, I’ll give you an
examination and if you don’t pay it back exactly as I wrote it, I’ll flunk you. And it don’t mean a thing. The idea may not
more be true than the man in the moon. But, at least we set it up.

Ideals
Ideals we find there’s a use for. You have an ideal as to how far from the property line your building is to be put. You
have an ideal of how fast everybody’s to drive on the highway. Nobody’s paying much attention to it, but the police
take it serious. And nobody else does very much. And we can have those ideals, we can have a jillion other ideals of

what ought to be, what should be, and what so forth. Now as long as it relates to non-humans it’s kind of halfway valid,
but the minute you put it on humans it’s not so valid.

Standards
And we can set up a standard for something. If I want to buy a pair of shoes I can, or even order them, I say a certain

size, and they come in, I can wear them, they feel all right, I can walk in tell a man and tell him I want a size so-and-so
suit and he hands it to me and I put it on and go away. I can go in and look at the numbers on a shirt and say I’ll take
that shirt. I’m not going to try it on. And it’ll fit when I get there because it’s built according to standards.

Games

And of course there’s many games that we play. We can play baseball, we can play football, we can play business
games, we can play marriage games, and most people forget those are games and they don’t realize they have all the
things of a game.

Players, Rules, Officials, Rewards or Penalties

A game has, number one, players. And then it has rules, or it’s not a game. Then it has officials of the game, and then
it has rewards or penalties. Don’t call them punishment, they’re merely penalties. So let’s take a player playing
football. He plays according to the rules and there’s a man out there with a whistle that’s official, and if he don’t play
according to the rules he gives him a penalty. He gets too many of them, he throws him out of the game. If he plays

the game according, he might get a certain reward, he gets glory anyway. If he’s in a professional game, why he gets
a lot of money for it. Let’s take traffic game, that’s a fairly common one and most of us play it. There’s rules to the
traffic game and we all know them pretty well. Right? We’ve heard of them, anyway. Bill, you’ve even heard of them.

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