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Language as means of communicating truth

Language as means of deceiving

Language as means of communicating ideas or possibilities

Language as means of discovering

Language as means of coaxing an emotion

Language as means of joking

Language as means of creating/maintaining/developing relations

Language as means of keeping a group of people cool, powerless, and safely within the boundaries.

do you know what words

are capable of, sam

no, i really don't

all i know is that they're often, not enough.

OK, this is all wrong, and its because I'm trying to be creative while pondering Carl Jung's idea about how the soul exists outside of a person.

Soul = universe

everyone who wants to save the world
is actually interested in saving their soul, as the zealots would say
this is because world and soul are the same
the world that an individual knows, and...
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Quotes from OUT OF IT, by Stuart Walton

Evelyn Waugh's debut novel, Decline and Fall, concludes with its central character, Paul Pennyfeather...being apprised of the meaning of life by an avant-garde architect, the self-styled professor Otto Silenus. He is told that life is like the big wheel at Paris' Luna Park fairground, a revolving disk of polished wood with tiers of seats all round. Some...
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the urge to be angry
the urge to talk, write, sing,
the urge to remember,
the urge to frame an experience, for later
the urge to be left in peace
the urge to cooperate and be involved
in progress towards a goal.
the urge to be seen
the urge to be with friends
the urge to be intoxicated by a non-addictive substance
the urge to...
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Freewrite About Memes

Meme: A unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another.

I have a hard time understanding what memes are because people who talk about memes always blur that line between information and activity. I don't see how you can say something like a cultural practice is...
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if our souls are
destroyed
at the moment that we die

doesn't that make life
better and
more worthwhile
sounding

a soul is a
word for personality
plus everything outside of that

everything you are...
everything you felt...
everything you believe in, dream of, or think about...
everything you project upon someone else...

everything we experience as present in the universe
is what a soul...
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how is burning someone's body while they're still alive, burning their flesh all the way to the bone chemically, not as bad as mustard gas. On a scale of 1 to mustard gas, where does white phosphorous lie. if you were to ask a person who was being burned alive by white phosphorous, hey dude, is white phosphorus just as bad as mustard gas, i...
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the secretary parents

(1) a smiling kind-hearted slightly oblivious mom
(2) an alcoholic father, behaving completely weird once in a while because drunk, and nobody bothers to explain it. the child wants to be helped to understand what is going on, but the mom doesn't think its necessary to talk about such things, and even if she did, she wouldn't know what to say, and...
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i was looking for a series of words
somewhere, anywhere,
who the fuck cares
if they're pretty, or rotten, or right
in books and conversations,
as long as i didn't have to participate
in deciphering some
ultimate truth or moral lesson
i should learn
and hopelessly concise, concise in such a crushing
way that i could just be at
eaze without this
great and painful...
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