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STONE_COLD

                                               December 19, 2005


       Some thoughts are so
       stone cold obvious
       that it fills me with
       boredom to write them                  E.g. "Everyone always wants
       down one more time.                    to believe that their side
                                              is the font of reasonable
             How do you push through          reason; and the other guys
             it, where do you go?             are raging fanatics seduced
                                              by doctrine."

                                                     DAMN_INTELLECTUALS

                 Other questions: given
                 the observation of
                 deluded tribalism
                 dominating intellectual
                 life, what standards
                 of truth can you apply?

                         (1) how do you work with people
                             whose brains are ridden          MEMEONS
                             by these demons?

                         (2) how do you exorcise
                             your own?             DISSONANCE


                                             Maybe there's little
                                             room left for theory.
     As trails go,
     this doesn't                            Just start practicing.
     sound so hot.

                                                  FINGER_EXERCISES



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