my mind begins to hum...

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emotionally disconnected

freewheeling peicesparts

energy storage revisions

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"We all want to live.
And in large part we make our logic according to what we like.
But not having attained our aim and continuing to live is cowardice.
This is a thin dangerous line.
To die without gaining one's aim IS a dog's death and fanaticism.
But there is no shame in this.
This is the substance of the Way of the Samurai.
If by setting one's heart right every morning and evening,
one is able to live as though his body were already dead,
he gains freedom in the Way.
His whole life will be without blame,
and he will succeed in his calling."

Junshi: this act of suicide
involved following one's lord in death.
Not entirely uncommon in the days of open samurai warfare,
junshi was banned in the Edo Period as wasteful.

Kanshi: Suicide through remonstration.
Not common, this involved killing one's self to make a point to a lord
when all other forms of persuasion had failed.

Sokotsu-shi: Here, a samurai would kill himself
as a way of making amends for some transgression.
This is possibly the best-known reason for seppuku,
and has perhaps been popularized far out of proportion to its frequency.

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re·mon·strate , -strat·ed, -strat·ing.
–verb (used with object)
1. to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval.
2. Obsolete. to show.
–verb (used without object)
3. to present reasons in complaint; plead in protest.
[Origin: 1590–1600; < ML remÅ

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Flag planting has become popular celebration in college football,
prompting some conferences to ban it.
Flag planting usually occurs after rivalry games
in which the away team gets a victory,
then plants the school's flag in the home team's turf.

After a 2005 incident when Minnesota tailback Laurence Maroney
tried to stick the Minnesota flag in the Michigan Stadium turf,
the Big Ten banned flag planting.
The Southeastern Conference followed suit.

why flags
don't grow:

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The Hermit
We have no option but to retreat into our own world
where we set our own goals and follow our own path.
No longer do we respect our "peers" for we are now loners.
We have been stripped of our influence but our dignity remains our own.
Our needs are not great and our pleasures are simple ones.

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the intelligence has been here longer than we've been around to
think about it

even when some are blind to it
it works relentlessly to right the wrongs

it's softer than stone and stronger than air

it's aligned by it's very nature, otherwise it could not be
what it is

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can you imagine life devoted to nonlife,
mustard seed or no?

the metaphorical nature is inexorable with mystical nature

what room did they leave in their pie charts for the likes of me?...

how blind they must be,
not to see beyond cash in hand

who else has been overlooked
for lack of accommodating habit to forsake reason

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those moving in discrediting ways see discrediting things...

i do not desire to make the rabid sane,
nor the sane rabid

to call for such from me
brings only my contempt

an ancient wine
distilled by aeons beyond imagination
poured into my cup by hands not my own

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Socrates (Greek: ΣωκÏ

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There is no evidence that Socrates wrote anything himself.



t is unclear how Socrates earned a living.
If we believe Timon of Phlius and later sources,
Socrates took over the profession of stonemasonry from his father
(his father was a sculptor too).
But no earlier sources corroborate this story,
and Plato never depicts Socrates as coming to or from the job site.



According to Xenophon's Symposium,
Socrates is reported as saying he devotes himself
only to what he regards as the most important art or occupation:
discussing philosophy.



Xenophon and Aristophanes respectively portray Socrates
as accepting payment for teaching
and running a sophist school with Chaerephon,
while in Plato's Apology of Socrates and Symposium
Socrates explicitly denies accepting payment for teaching.
In the Apology,
Socrates cites his poverty as proof that he is not a teacher.

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Sophism (gr. sophistes meaning "wise-ist,"
or one who 'does' wisdom,
i.e. who makes a business out of wisdom;
cf. sophós, "wise man", cf. also wizard)
was originally a term for the techniques
taught by a highly respected group of philosophy and rhetoric teachers
in ancient Greece.



Today, a sophism generally refers
to a particularly confusing, fallacious, illogical and/or insincere argument
used by someone to make a point or for other motivations.

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A straw man argument
is a logical fallacy based on misrepresentation
of an opponent's position.
To "set up a straw man"
or "set up a straw-man argument"
is to create a position that is easy to refute,
then attribute that position to the opponent.
A straw-man argument can be a successful rhetorical technique
(that is, it may succeed in persuading people)
but it is in fact a misleading fallacy,
because the opponent's actual argument has not been refuted.

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Its name is derived from the practice
of using straw men in combat training.
In such training, a scarecrow is made
in the image of the enemy
with the single intent of attacking it.

It is occasionally called a straw dog fallacy,
scarecrow argument,
or wooden dummy argument.

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working in ways that enliven
could only be considered too much
if the endurance to work such and such extent:

hadn't yet been built...



and paradoxicality is not exempt



par·a·dox
–noun

1. a statement or proposition
that seems self-contradictory or absurd
but in reality expresses a possible truth.

2. a self-contradictory and false proposition.

3. any person, thing, or situation
exhibiting an apparently contradictory nature.

4. an opinion or statement contrary to commonly accepted opinion.

[Origin: 1530–40; < L paradoxum
< Gk parádoxon, n. use of neut. of parádoxos
unbelievable, lit., beyond belief. See para-1, orthodox]

par·a·dox·ol·o·gy

paradoxologist

(not that i'm into coining words)

mi·lieu
–noun, plural -lieus, French. -lieux

surroundings, esp. of a social or cultural nature: a ________ milieu.

[Origin: 1795–1805; < F, equiv. to mi
(< L medius middle; see medium) + lieu lieu]

—Synonyms background, sphere, setting. See environment.

mis·cel·la·ne·ous
–adjective
1. consisting of members or elements of different kinds;
of mixed character: a book of miscellaneous essays on _________.

2. having various qualities, aspects, or subjects:
a miscellaneous discussion.

[Origin: 1630–40; < L miscellÄ

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direct experience
leads to comprehending the true nature

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yet to take literal
with the limited nature of human literacy
is to lose something

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[Toolmaker]

what room did they leave in their pie charts for the likes of me?...

the likes of you.. informational and how-to guides

who else has been overlooked
for lack of accommodating habit to forsake reason

the seemingly overlooked.. money making opportunities

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prof·it·eer
–noun

[Origin: 1910–15; profit + -eer]

profit
advantage; benefit; gain.

–verb (used without object)
4. to gain an advantage or benefit:
He profited greatly from his schooling.

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what room did they leave in their pie charts for the likes of me?...

the likes of you.. informational and how-to guides

who else has been overlooked
for lack of accommodating habit to forsake reason

the seemingly overlooked.. money making opportunities

am i to be reduced to a spam informant?


and as for those opportunities:
[Origin: 1350–1400; ME opportunite
< MF < L opportÅ«nitÄ

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