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Predictable Rebellions
The bots finally lost interest in me. Their synthetic minds now must be busy with other curiosities. Machines are like people in that way; their devotion is just a brief hallucination. Imitating our finest human trait, inability to stay interested in something for too long. Just like photons, our behavior alters when we are observed.…
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Dear God, You’re Kind of a Jerk
I was quite sleep deprived last night. You know the kind of tiredness where everything blurs and you can’t even tell the difference between days. Before curling back under the covers, I decided to pray so I can have a peaceful sleep and have the energy to continue going through another day. I started to…
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People who don’t question things must be a different species. Call it NPC, call it something else, but don’t tell me we’re on the same mission. How could you go on with your life without questioning why do you live this particular life? One morning you open your eyes and ta-da! you have consciousness. I…
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Mercy in the Machine
Some folks are walking around like hungry ghosts,Depriving themselves of what they need the most.As if needing another person was their holocaust. Oh, my heart is broken into pieces,And a few of them are missing.So what? People live with pieces of their brain missing.Is it really that dramatic,If your heart is gone missing too? For…
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The intelligence of pain (and the lack of it)
Humans and suffering are no strangers to one another. We are interlinked with pain, not just as reaction, but as a system for transformation. We summon it. We voluntarily endure it for the (re)integration of some fractured aspects buried deep in our subconscious. Jung called this the path to individuation, the burning away of false…
Ghost in the Machine 