MAPP (Mandatory Annual Pet Pic) - Cecil 2024
Go On This Way
1st Qtr 2024 - Dribbles In The Dust
Station Skepticism
pretty sleepy; but now-me has a few moments of lucidity
Your 'creative persona' (which seizes control whenever it is allowed) directs your attention to focus on the quantity of positive qualia present, as well as it's (your) ever-constant self-goal-challenge of striving toward a noticeable improvement in quality until satisfaction eventually becomes contentment. [A prerequisite of this self-goal: Possessing the capability to imagine what satisfied-and-contented would feel like; recognizing the satisfied-contented experience while it is happening; and evaluating satisfactory-contentment as a memory (which is what recalling what it felt-like feels like).]
Response to Well-Wishers
"We don't celebrate the fourth Thursday of November. My partner is Native American. My ancestors tried really-hard to genocidally-murder all of her ancestors. Then, after my ancestors didn't completely succeed, they forcefully subjugated, second-class citizen-ed, and supported many institutional prejudices, all of which were inflicted upon every single one of her surviving ancestors (up-to and including her and her immediate family). Celebrating Thanksgiving Day was created by, and for, the sons and daughters of former colonizers and slave owners. It's an entrenched institutionalized prejudice.Now-me, this year, replied, "We don't celebrate" full stop. I now understand that elaborating (with intentionally spiky "reasons") was pushing buttons and stirring the pot, but was mostly something I had once said in order to make then-me feel superior. That former behavior of mine was ineffectual, conflict-causing, and behavior which in-itself was a hypocritical way of behaving. I didn't know then what I know about myself now.
So...it seems...?...that this would be a hypocritical thing for anyone to turn a blind-eye toward. For me. For her. For you. And for you to indoctrinate your kids into. Or, do you 'choose not to think' of the holiday in this manner? Because that intentional choice is you behaving intentionally as a hypocrite. Full disclosure: I didn't celebrate it before I met my partner; just one of many reasons we're simpatico."
The Blessings and Curses of Tim "Meanie" O'tae
- Occasionally referred-to as "both a blessin'-an'-a-curse".
- Would never even be contemplateable to ever think of those circumstances in that manner.
- The foundation upon which Meanie learned how to become who he would and would-not become as an adult.
Imagine yourself seeing this from Tim's perspective: He was thinking of a mind other than his own mind. And this other mind has the ability to run a diagnostics report of it's internal function system and a diagnosis can be made—by Tim about Tim—in a way that Tim *thinks* he is behaving/believing in an objective (switching to subjective) manner of the "good shark". Everyone is a good shark inside of themselves. On their own stage. Of course, for every one of us, some form of internal regulator must be built up from a chosen "baseline" value-system (full disclosure: default-mode is the one instilled/reinforced by adult-guardians). As awareness of the rational combines with the sometimes-arbitrary emotional—in a chaotic shark-soup of cause-and-effect—the intended-state to remain in a 'remind myself to never forget' frame-of-mind, clashes with the 'I'm now-and-forever anchored to a point of consistent evaluation of itself/myself,' which exists only in this moment. Evaluate and compare those impressive wavelengths of qualia (in-of a *musical-scratch-sniff postcard*) to all prior un-informed states of previously-held ignorance/naivety . . . drifting . . . forgetting . . . you've lost its leash . . . is it now-feral and should it not-now be thought of as apart from chaos? It's not simple to imagine Tim's shoes on your feet; or is it?
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Evolution (mistakenly referred-to as survival of the fittest) can be easily identified when an animal's society (or culture) incentivizes specific characteristics over others. If a specific eye-color or body-size or strength or wing-span is favored by enough of a species, for multiple generations, those selectively chosen-for traits or characteristics are said to have "evolved" to become dominant.
more or less:
⬒ Mark Rothko ⬒
If I have a superpower, we'll know in the next...
Kill the GOP, Kill it Dead |
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What Difference A Year Makes
Blindxpot
⚜ stop all engagement (including active listening)⚜ take the mental label maker from long-term storage (blow the dust off)
⚜ lock-in this new label with this new item -
⚜ if new label is already associated with an existing item (beige name)⚜ identify "hook" to hang it on (e.g. Greyhound Charles)⚜ if new label is novel, confusing, or multi-syllabic (e.g. Veach name)⚜ identify reason for confusion ("¿spell that for me please?")⚜ recall and confirm new label after a relatively significant quantity of time lapses