I have assigned them to my NOTHING COMPUTER.
And ... good riddance!
There was a man who had a constantly com-
plaining wife. Yet he was serenely undisturbed by her
petty complaints; they never reached his consciousness be-
cause he sent them directly to his NOTHING COM-
PUTER.
There was a wife whose husband had a quick
temper. She did not over-react to his brief anger and thus
precipitate a shouting match resulting in mutually hurt
feelings. She simply assigned his temper tantrums to her
NOTHING COMPUTER. Since he could not argue with
nothing and found himseH threshing around in an emo-
tional vacuum, he learned to feed the various causes of
his irritability into his own NOTHING COMPUTER and
thus had nothing to be angry about.
A NOTHING COMPUTER is simply an amus-
ing, imaginary device for accomplishing what psychiatrists
call "catharsis" (which, in common parlance, means "get-
ting rid of undesirable thoughts and feelings"), and a
NOTHING COMPUTER also provides the means of
mentally and emotionally "blanking out" undesirable
thoughts and feelings so that they do not make a conscious,
much less a subconscious, impression on you.
To be able to eliminate all mental-emotional
reactions to undesirable thoughts and feelings is a state of
perfection constantly to be sought. In the meantime, at
least discipline yourself not to over-react in any situation.
OVER-REACTING will get you into serious
trouble-fast! Serious trouble cannot be handled by your