Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for September 11, 2023

15,000 miles? Looked it up – farthest distance between two places is about 12,500 miles (at least on Earth anyways).

The President used Air Force One to travel to Asia for enlightenment.

What kind of enlightenment? Most folks who’ve been to the school of hard knocks have been at least partly enlightened.

Well, plenty of free parking around back, and only four steps up. Worth a shot.

With a bit of luck, we’ll never have this opportunity again.

It’s not enlightenment. It’s woke indoctrination

Gee and here I was just wondering if there was a bathroom around the back.

That’s quite the guru that requires neither food nor water.

How do you get back on the highway if you stop?

But the prime point is that one is already there no matter where, when or how: one has only to stop and awaken to it.

“Your electric powered vehicle’s battery is out of charge and look where you are. BTW, if you smell smoke, get out. Quick. How’s that for enlightenment, skippy?”

Unless that guy has a Charging Station around back, he’s outta luck. No one want enlightenment anymore. They want gratification. Period.

“77 Moebius Strip” [snap, snap]

Does that mean without pit stops?

Perhaps true enlightenment involves a certain amount of exaggeration?

Looks like a John Ford movie where southwest Arizona is combined with northeast Arizona.

Talk about an intellectual desert.

Wonder if there’s a gift shop?

We’ve got some extra time for side trips. What’s another decade or two?

If they threw in an oil change, I’d stop. :)

The turn-off lane should be straight in, not curved the wrong way.

There is no pit stop there because it was too hard getting enlightenment AND smelling gas fumes at the same time. Just ask any guru

You’d think he’d have a bigger parking lot

My (late) brother tended to stay home and concentrate on enheavyenment.

“The Enlightenment principle that we can apply reason and sympathy to enhance human flourishing may seem obvious, trite, old-fashioned…. I have come to realize that it is not. More than ever, the ideals of reason, science, humanism, and progress need a wholehearted defense…. The ideals of the Enlightenment are products of human reason, but they always struggle with other strands of human nature: loyalty to tribe, deference to authority, magical thinking, the blaming of misfortune on evildoers.” —Steven Pinker (1954- ), Canadian-American psychologist, linguist, and author, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (2018)

The path to enlightenment is not a straight line. Never has been.

I’d rather have Karnak The Magnificent question my answers.

So the guru’s going to show them how to live on fresh air? By the way, the road to the left just disappears – as Yogi Berra said “When you come to a fork in the road, take it”.

I tend to want things when they’re scarce, so I’d stop.