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entertainment

entertainment

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one mental model that is probably very rudimentary but to me very conducive is to remember that interesting thinking is motivated thinking.

what you must do is first get some image in your head and really keep it in focus. could be a pretty plant you want to make a poetic observation about or some song you want to analyse or a cultural thread you want to critique.

then the crucial part is before you start 'thinking' about it, you have to cultivated some distinct way of feeling about it. could be aversion, attraction, curiosity, hatred, but it's imperative that you trust your instinct on this. you have to really feel some certain way about it. and then only when you have that feeling down, when you have gotten a real good taste of it, you must probe it, investigate it, find out where it comes from, what is is connected to.

the feeling is always the access point to the deeper levels of anything. thought alone is futile, entropic. it doesn't know where to go or how to sort the signals.

it's probably very obvious and simple but i've found it's a crucial thing to keep in mind.

anyways, this was a very nice thread to re-read.
 
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entertainment said:
one mental model that is probably very rudimentary but to me very conducive is to remember that interesting thinking is motivated thinking.

what you must do is first get some image in your head and really keep it in focus. could be a pretty plant you want to make a poetic observation about or some song you want to analyse or a cultural thread you want to critique.

then the crucial part is before you start 'thinking' about it, you have to cultivated some distinct way of feeling about it. could be aversion, attraction, curiosity, hatred, but it's imperative that you trust your instinct on this. you have to really feel some certain way about it. and then only when you have that feeling down, when you have gotten a real good taste of it, you must probe it, investigate it, find out where it comes from, what is is connected to.

the feeling is always the access point to the deeper levels of anything. thought alone is futile, entropic. it doesn't know where to go or how to sort the signals.

it's probably very obvious and simple but i've found it's a crucial thing to keep in mind.

anyways, this was a very nice thread to re-read.
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This sounds a bit like AOS magic technique
 
sufi

sufi

lala
entertainment said:
one mental model that is probably very rudimentary but to me very conducive is to remember that interesting thinking is motivated thinking.

what you must do is first get some image in your head and really keep it in focus. could be a pretty plant you want to make a poetic observation about or some song you want to analyse or a cultural thread you want to critique.

then the crucial part is before you start 'thinking' about it, you have to cultivated some distinct way of feeling about it. could be aversion, attraction, curiosity, hatred, but it's imperative that you trust your instinct on this. you have to really feel some certain way about it. and then only when you have that feeling down, when you have gotten a real good taste of it, you must probe it, investigate it, find out where it comes from, what is is connected to.

the feeling is always the access point to the deeper levels of anything. thought alone is futile, entropic. it doesn't know where to go or how to sort the signals.

it's probably very obvious and simple but i've found it's a crucial thing to keep in mind.

anyways, this was a very nice thread to re-read.
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People were given the choice to sit quietly with their thoughts for 15 minutes or else self-administer painful electric shocks to themselves
67 percent of men and 25 percent of women choose to electrocute themselves https://wjh-www.harvard.edu/~dtg/westgateetal2019.pdf
 
craner

craner

Beast of Burden
craner said:
This is your manifesto.

It’s taken a long time, I wrote mine in 2004, but this one is better, deeper, less academic. I’m not even absorbing what you’ve been doing in the last two years although I am reading and getting my head around it slowly, but also caught up in my own obsessions which take up time. Watching and reading and appreciating though. Read your poems in Italy surrounded by ancient relics. They are incredible but I still haven’t worked out a way to say why yet. That probably makes no sense to you.
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It's pleasant to read this historic slice of Heronbone with cameos from me, Jim, Daria, Woebot & others. It makes me feel the warm sun of youth stroking the back of the neck, a clear spring breeze kissing skin, the Lea Valley stretching ahead and the sky filled with arctic terns and grey herons: http://heronbore.blogspot.com/2004_02_01_archive.html#107612133980962069#107612133980962069
 
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craner

craner

Beast of Burden
It's quite funny to me when Daria dumps a load of stuff on occultism and surrealism on him, because she was obsessed with all of that. When we were close she was writing her thesis on Leonara Carrington and alchemy. She tracked down Conroy Maddox and went to visit him in his scruffy flat in Kentish Town. Eventually, she took off to Mexico with Carrington's nephew and met her in Mexico City. I think her dissertation scored an easy distinction.
 
craner

craner

Beast of Burden
This was way before all the "forgotten female genius in the sexist world of surrealist men" stuff, Daria didn't care about any of that.
 
woops

woops

is not like other people
dunno who that is but i remember you telling that story once before, some people eh
 
woops

woops

is not like other people
i'm not going to scour the archive but it seems familiar, anyway it's a good one worth retelling
 
woops

woops

is not like other people
maybe it was another mate of yours with a different connection to fabled artists of other eras
 
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