tag > Narrative
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“I had not realized … that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people.” - Joseph Weizenbaum (1960s)
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Harry Potter and the Quantum Timebomb: Physics is war. War is Terrorism. Terrorism is Physics.
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Prophetic perfect tense - a literary technique commonly used in religious texts that describes future events that are so certain to happen that they are referred to in the past tense as if they had already happened.
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"If you have dreams about scary monsters you should not worry but simply go to unicorn land and use magic." - My 4 year old daughter
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Relational databases have been one of the most successful psy-ops in computer science.
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The Ancient Greeks had two words for time: Chronos = sequential, quantitative time & Kairos = fluctuating, qualitative time
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The distinction between a "belief system" and "knowledge system" maybe cast in story-song terms.
The story "goes"; the song "echoes".
Part of a song can bring joys an unfinished story can't.
There are some "true stories", but no dilemmas of whether a song is "true" or "false". -
Imaginary friends, my family will meet in the future:
Alfi Gomi Berger, Fufu Berger, Sailor Butschstein -
A woodwose - A wild man of the woods. A mythical figure that appears in the art and literature of medieval Europe. The Old English form could have been ‘wudu-wāsa’ - wudu=‘forest’ wāsa=‘to be alive’
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Diogenes lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, "I am looking for a human." - Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 41.
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The Kitsune fox spirits demand keen awareness to detect. Once their presence is known, prompt and decisive measures are imperative for the protection of the bewitched. Our encounters with these enigmatic entities this year have been both challenging and awe-inspiring
