tag > Narrative
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Useful GPT4 prompt: "Take the following short text and re-tell it in the 'hero's journey' format: ...."
Generative "tools for thinking" are underrated. Case in point: Screenwriters study for years to be able to fluently think in terms of "the hero's journey". Generative tools shorten that learning journey immensely and let anyone quickly experiment with a new way of thinking.
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One day the monk heard that Buddha was coming to town. So he ran to town and exclaimed to Buddha "I have practiced levitation meditation for 20 years and now i can walk on water." Buddha looked at the man and said "yeah, but the ferry boat is only a nickle".
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In 1859, a man named Thomas Austin released 24 English trolls into the wild for sport hunting in Australia. By 1959, the troll population of Australia grew to 10 billion. By some accounts, half of all internet users today are Australian trolls.
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"We meet again, at the turn of the tide. A great storm is coming, but the tide has turned." - Gandalf
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In 1954 while the CIA was engineering the banana coup, Guatemala's government announced it had learned of the plot. Coup headquarters in FL sent a telegram to CIA's station in Guatemala w/ advice on suppressing the info; one strategy was to seed flying saucer stories in the press
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“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” – Haruki Murakami
Replace "books" with websites and apps and it's even more true.
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The Unanswered Question - a lecture series given by Leonard Bernstein in the fall of 1973. (Youtube)
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Die Bombe: If you have to make a movie about the origins of the atomic bomb, at least make it about people that mattered, like Paul Rosbaud, Otto Hahn, Hans Kammler & the German intelligentsia milleux of the time.
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Sam Altman from OpenAI VS Carter Burke, character from the movie "Aliens". "Templates"
Carter Burke is a representative of Weyland-Yutani, one of the mega-corps that runs the colonies outside the solar system. It consistently exhibits the worst aspects of corporate profiteering, seeming willing to sacrifice decency & human life in pursuit of profit.
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A cathedral and a modern microcircuit with an emitter antenna
To the right is Chartres Cathedral built in 1220. 800 years later in 2020 we have Schumann Resonators which are little boxes you plug into the wall that produce electromagnetic radiation tuned to 7.83 Hz. This is the frequency that the earth/atmosphere system “rings” at when the Earth is struck by lightning. It is also a common frequency your brain “ticks” at. If we are out of sync with Earth's Frequency (Schumann Resonance) we begin to exhibit signs of discomfort that can range from anxiety, insomnia, illness, suppressed immune etc…
Eternal patterns echoing across time and space
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If you've met operatives from a time travel agency, chances are you'll remember it as if it's tomorrow. As Lewis Carroll will write in "Alice in Wonderland": “It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.”
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Samim's Conjecture of Scientific Controversy: "The more profound and groundbreaking a scientific theory, the more likely it'll be met with ridicule."
Samim's Observation of Scientific Innovation: Many of the most fascinating scientific discoveries briefly surface just to tease us, then vanish like a magician's trick.
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These are the last known photos of the Miskatonic University expedition to Sudan (1908). The expedition disappeared without a trace three days later in a sandstorm. No bodies or artifacts were recovered; attempts to reconstruct the location through global imaging have failed. Art by Andrea Bonazzi
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“My job isn't to believe or disbelieve. It is to act or not act!” - Colonel Shikishima (Akira, アキラ, 1988)
