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Part 18 it helps to see the spectrum of behaviors as a spectrum first of all not disorganized not random not to the degree the clergy would have it which makes them ridiculous as well as dangerous to anyone standing outside the cupola who is to decide what is unthinkable ritual penitence might give some relief if this were the Middle Ages when specifics were rarely a necessity when all contours were accessed via templates who or what is the projectionist who or what is the projection screen who or what is the audience indexed blindly well shite does happen Nature eats her young and belches hurricanes leaving us fascinated with trajectories some riskier than others blessed conjecture a form of forgetting forgetting to call it anesthesia twisted as it may be in a black mirror of exclusion all is law there is no chance statistically speaking there are however greater and lesser degrees of magnification we see more than our ancestors saw that's bulging eyeball for certain for anyone able to count to ten laws of matter laws of mind pouring through us from the heavens and the hells and our thoughts hum right along on the other side of the door letting anything door-shaped into our heads do we perfect or settle in for Winter it's that simple fighting and dying to protect our patterns time to put two and two together and override the Reichstag party line and let the totems shout for themselves in the ancient fetish parade forgetting where we came from every time is the next moment derived from this one I'd be panicky if it didn't everything is derived if you breathe and metabolize that's time for you everything causing everything else I'm thinking that this question should begin at the macro end of the speculum I mean spectrum if we were designed to avoid punishment how come so much pain etc. it's a long road from prey to predator our horrors are obviously self generated how does more detail alter anything we treat each other like shock absorbers if smart equals an early recognition of threat it's no wonder we don't want to know perfection may not be conceivable but improvement sure as a graveyard is so let's play with numbers like they really counted the problem is all the echoes what sort of intention cannot tolerate the intention of others if truth enhances predictability we'll want the pull of the future to be intense enough to bring us there (to be continued) From "Theater of Utter Charm" Available on Amazon
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