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“One of the most terrifying of the deceptions of language and conception we suffer due to our cruelly impoverished education in its natures and dangers is so obvious that it is nearly impossible to detect. It is that the same word or concept can ever recur. No...

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“His argument was this: that the results of a dream that are held by the waking mind to represent it are the opposite of a dream, the crucifixion of a dream, and further, that dreaming is not a category; every dream is the only one there ever was the only one...

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“And so they could not see that the man was a delicate flower, just as they had always thought that dreams belong to the category of dreams, which, above all, they must not.” — an anonymous informant

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The USS Carl Vinson has a crew of ~6100 persons. At a pay rate of ~$25/hr, it costs $155,000/hr just to crew the ship, or, if all workers only work 8 hr days (unlikely), $930,000/day. That’s just for crew pay, directly… leaving out benefits, medical care,...

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The unity and communion of all moments and appearances is a fact. Distinction is a function of awareness, and is most often employed unconsciously, according to severely damaged methods we were trained to emulate. Awareness lies between them, and works in a strange...

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Last night, perhaps for the first time, I was able to conceptualize something of profound import. This is a complex topic that has many domains of nuance and potential. What I will present here is a crude introduction in text. The idea itself is not exceptionally...