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“I think that a lot of other children saw those things that were wrong, and made vows never to forget. And they were true, and good. But they did not realize how powerful the forgetting that comes with Growing Up can be. Most of them, nearly all of them, were...

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“This word we have. “Beauty’. We’re confused about this word. It does not mean what we suppose, namely, that beauty is a quality inherent in a being, object, process or situation. It is, I think, something quite other than this. Rather than a...

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“The fear of death and the fear of eternity are merely opposite sides of the same coin…” — infraheard

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“The letters they use are cypers; and the art by which they arrange them, now lost to nearly everyone… is the living derivation of its origins. Those origins lie in direct contact with nonhuman intelligences. In fact, those were also our origins. The...

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“Most of them (nearly everyone, really) rapidly developed a problem where a perspectival toy used to gain a new view on something they have discriminated, replaces the relationship, becomes tokenized, reifies the loss of the relationship, and then becomes a kind...

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Imagine “before you were conceived”. Say something about why you might have chosen to be born.