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Old Sep 21, 2014, 03:54 PM
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Nah, don't give up your livelihood over some jerky people. Just smile knowingly at them, it will confuse them. Be better than they are, and let your satisfaction come from that.

Like that expression, "kill them with kindness", for they shall not know what to do.
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“We use our minds not to discover facts but to hide them. One of things the screen hides most effectively is the body, our own body, by which I mean, the ins and outs of it, its interiors. Like a veil thrown over the skin to secure its modesty, the screen partially removes from the mind the inner states of the body, those that constitute the flow of life as it wanders in the journey of each day.
Antonio R. Damasio, “The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness” (p.28)
Thanks for this!
Aloneandafraid, lunatic soul