Life — September 8, 1910 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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Protests Are Coming In MANY PEOPLE WHO WANTED TO LEAD THE IMAGINARY LIFE ARE NOW DISTRESSED As recently announced, our limit of fifteen million mental subscribers to LIFE having been reached, the only thing we can do is to establish a waiting list. This is constantly growing. We gave fair warning to all that the subscription limit would not be raised again. Those people who did not concentrate ten mental dollars in time for a year's subscription have only themselves to blame. Here is a letter which we translate from the vibratory record received through our Thought Bureau: Life, N. ¥. I understand that I am on your waiting list. How Jong will L have to wait before lcancomein? I was away onatnp to Japan when your announcement of limit came out, and didn’t know there was any hurry, ——5—— We have respectfully called our correspondents at- tention to the fact that his presence in Japan con- stitutes no excuse for his dilatory action. You can subscribe to the mental LIFE in Japan as well as anywhere. There is a constant current of vibrations circling the globe. No matter where they are, our fifteen mil- lion mental subscribers receive their copy of the men- tal LIFE every week. You can be joyful in the Desert of Sahara and thrill with wit and wisdom in the wilds of Hoboken. It makes no difference. ‘ Now in regard to our correspondent’s inquiry, we will say this: “ Our subscribers do not die off very rap- idly, Getting the mental LIFE every week keeps them so cheerful that no thought of the other world comes to them. Consequently our waiting list is constantly increasing and vacancies are rare. We should say that our friend ought to become a mental subscriber, say in the early part of the year 1951, as there are only about four million ahead of him on the waiting list.” We have received through one of our materialistic departments the following letter: Life, Dear Sirs: I am only a coarse, physical creature, as you say, but for my own benefit and a few others who are reg: ular subscribers to the plain every day LIFE. I should like to be cleared up on the three following points: First: Is Gee. Ime. Mit. a real physical being, with an actual every day body, or does he exist only in thought? I am not ordinarily a suspicious per- in spite of your earnestness ai of independence. I cannot get rid of the thought that your Mental LIFE is either a fraud or that you are exploiting it for some business purpose. Frankly speaking, isn't it just a clever advertising dodge ? Third: I note your recent statement that you are making no efforts to save the country and that (with the exception of insisting on all your mental advertising being pure, which is apparently your little joke) you are doing absolutely n i way of reform. And yet you admit that over fifteen million readers, each one of whom has concentrated ten dollars worth of mental money; which as you insinuate, gives you a vast surplus of thought power, or whatever you callit. Why , then do you sit idly by and do nothing to correct some of the crying evils of the day? Yours truly, B T. In replying to this friend we are somewhat embar- rassed, because we are necessarily obliged to speak only in the physical terms to which he is restricted. If we could vibrate to him one fraction of the real feel- ing we have he would understand instantly; but his psychical self has not yet amalgamated with his phys- ical, hence our handicap. For example, we translated his letter immediately upon its receipt through vibra- tions into the mental number of LIFE that was just going on to the imaginary press, and our fifteen mil- lion subscribers received it with the greatest joy. They understood, and there was a universal chorus of vibratory laughter to think that he didn’t. We shall, however, answer his questions as best we may. First: Gee. Ime. Mit. is the only real person in this office. All others are but reflections. Even the office cat, when she purrs, must do so in rhythmic harmony with his thought. Second: Looking at the matter from our friend's own standpoint he must be willing to admit that the two greatest motives that influence every human being are Vanity and Cupidity. Now inasmuch as we are actually turning away would-be subscribers every min- ute and placing them on a waiting list, surely our motive cannot be Vanity; and how can it be Cupidity, when we have such an immense mental surplus already? Our real motive is because we wished to be doing some- thing really important and because we did not wish to be bored, and we find this bores us less than anything else—for the moment. Third: Why should we wish to institute any reforms when they are being instituted so much more ably by all of our esteemed physical contemporaries? We are obliged, of course, to insist on pure mental advertising. But that is only because our imaginary readers demand it. Please address all communications to GEE. IME. MIT., LIFE’S Thought Bureau.