The evolution of the world can be compared to a display of fireworks that has just ended: some few red wisps, ashes and smoke. Standing on a cooled cinder, we see the slow fading of the suns, and we try to recall the vanishing brilliance of the origin of the worlds.

Wow maybe this new server works.

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Ran into a lot of new music in Italy....

FEMALE VOCALIST COVERS:
* Crazy (James Michael Mix) (Alanis Morissette)

SONGS I RAN INTO IN SICILY:
* Scarabocchi (Olly & Juli)
* Tarantella (Gabry Ponte & KEL)
* Via con me (Parma Brass Quintet)
* Jailhouse Rock (Elvis Presley)
* Hot Stuff (Banda Brasileira)
* People Get Up and Drive Your Funky Soul (James Brown)
I'm a little annoyed that James Brown leaves out 3 or 4 signs including Aries.

FEMALE VOCALIST COVERS I RAN INTO IN SICILY:
* Time After Time (Lennon Stella)
* mad world (Au/Ra)
* Killing Me Softly (Melania)
* The scientist (Bea)

OTHER SONGS:

* Takio's Sohran 2 (Takio Ito & TAKiO BAND) - from a group of Japanese exchange students tour
* NAILS (feat. Missy Elliott) (Noga Erez) - from the show Big Mistakes

I used to read a blogger who insisted that "All right, I'll go to Hell," from Huckleberry Finn is the most pure and perfect prayer in the canon of American literature. Meaning, as I understand it, that the decision to do the right thing in the face of eternal damnation is the most holy decision one can make, and if God Himself is not proud of the poor mixed-up kid, then God Himself is not worth much more than a "Get thee behind me," and the rest of us should be lining up to go to Hell too. Worth noting that this person identified as an evangelical Christian, not because he was in line with what current American evangelicals believe, but because "they can change their name, I'm not changing mine."

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I have a lot of ambivalence about Jordan Peterson but there's a lot to chew over in this:

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it's really useful to investigate the viewpoints of people who have opposing views to yours because they'll tell you things - not only will they tell you things you don't know it'll also tell you how to see the world in ways that you don't see it and they'll also have skills that you don't have

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but agreeable people especially if they're really agreeable, are so agreeable that they often don't even know what they want because they're so accustomed to living for other people, to finding out what other people want and to trying to make them comfortable and so forth that it's harder for them to find a sense of their own desires as they move through life

This one especially is on my mind, as I try and explore if "anhedonia" - not feeling pleasures as sharply as most folks - might be cause rather than an effect of my "group think" and looking to objective corectness through the group. Yesterday's meteorite was going at 75,000mph! I kind of forgot space stuff is that stuff. Earth's orbit speed is around 67K mph. And the speed at the equator is around 1,000 mph.

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The dark side isn't evil, it just draws Force from emotions. The Sith decided the strongest emotions are the grief and anger you get from the Sith training, so it seems evil. Other grey force users have drawn force from within using other emotions and were powerful, too.

The light side is not "good" either, it just draws force externally. Perfectly possible to be evil, it just helps to meditate a lot and be very calm and neutral, which means most light side users are very controlled and reasonable.

All the light and dark talk is just propaganda and distraction by Jedi, the dominant force users, to make everyone think they're inherently good.

Probably a little too relativist for most trufans in a "From My Point of View, the Jedi are evil" kinda way but still. Like I'm sure if you think deeply enough about it may or may not hold up - that Dark side Force isn't intrinsically evil, but more likely to be amplifier of hot emotions.

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Con..."grad"...ulations Reena and Roman