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Ability to Adapt
Why do we want safety from social contact? Is that adaption? Perhaps adaption in an unhealthy way, but I prefer it many times. Removal from the environment is adaption to the environment? Denial is adaptive? Well, I want to get my looks out of the equation for a while. Many people are here (Second Life…
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Effects of Casual Interaction
Let’s take this back from the broadly general and global level and look at things on a human level again. What is the basis of most human relationships? I’d say common interest. Is that so? How many people do you hold and acknowledge common interests with? Sex? Sex is as basic as it gets. You…
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Are We in Touch?
Let’s bring it back to the domain of human experience. How much would you say adaptation is required of humans in their daily lives? I would say a low amount in general as there is a lot of routine that doesn’t deviate outside a range. But then I think a lot of unexpected things can…
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Always Context Sensitive
Today we are talking about adaptation. First, a necessary adaptation in the form of a question. I have to establish common ground to pursue the talk on. What is adaptation? Changing to suit a new environment? Change or adjustment suitable to the circumstances. Novelty itself is not automatically necessary in identifying adaptation. All traits possessed…
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A Work Of Friction (a work of fiction) By Ade Sluzky
They told me incredible stories and I did not believe a word of them. I stared at them but gave the impression of someone listening, someone believing, but the inside of my mind wondered if these people were actually aware of how full of shit they really were or whether this level of self delusion…
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Okay Worry
God knows, there’s enough to worry about without worrying about worrying about things. Edward Gorey What I’m Hanging Hope On Today: We are virtually ordered to control ourselves. Feelings arise naturally and automatically and we are fortunate to not have conscious control of that. If we are consciously responsible for that, we would miss big…
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Talismans are Consecrated Patterns
I ponder Golden Arches as talisman. It is one. Heavenly gates? Streets of gold? I will never again look at McDonalds quite the same way. It is perhaps why people think McDonald’s food equals death. You cannot create a pattern and have it make no impact on the world. Patterns created by humans shape the…
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Weaving Connections
The use of written language and symbolism in magick? It’s basically a form of sympathetic magick, using the words and symbols as a likeness of the thing they wish to attract or influence. This is why written names are thought to have power. By writing a name you are taking hold of a part of…
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This also seems descriptive for a type 3 indigo. I do have many of these traits that alternate but know…