[MD] LC: Expanded Annotation 57

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On 23 May 2009 at 22:49, Krimel wrote:

> > [Krimel to Dave]
> > Please, I am begging you, explain to me how some kind of undetectable all
> pervading
> > awareness is not supernatural.
> >
> > But my guess is you will do what you usually do, act like Platt and Ham
> and
> > clam up or disappear.
> 
> [Platt]
> All pervading awareness is neither undetectable nor supernatural because it
> is what you know before you know anything else, aptly explained by Huang Po:
> 
> "Here it is -- right now. Start thinking about it any you miss it."
> 
> [Krimel]
> Oh shucks, I must have left my all pervading awareness detector in my other
> pants. Yeah, the ones I wore to the séance the other night. The ones I
> spilled coffee on during the Tarot reading. 
> 
> But thanks for another example of Platt thinking deep thoughts. I love it
> when you break all Jack Handey on us.

A case of paranoic denial. Wittgenstein put it well: "One is unable to 
notice something because it is always before one's eyes."