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My mind is aglow with whirling, transient nodes of thought careening through a cosmic vapor of invention.

- Hedley Lamarr

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I don’t think that as humans we can understand the Whole Thing. Maybe we’re just here to enjoy the ability to hear, see, taste, touch, feel… and not worry about The Rest. It’ll a be clear later. So I’m gonna go have another cookie and enjoy the sh*t out of it.

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Every living thing lives on series of decision points. These intersect with others on the timeline we share creating virtually limitless possibilities of causality. But our reality is a singular point on the timeline. Things past are, in fact, past. Gone. Paradoxically, however, the memory of them we conjure up IS real nonetheless. And it can help influence our decisions. But if we all forget, then it’s really GONE. Or is it? The consequences of the entity or experience we remember remains. A shadow as it were. The initial event of the timeline becomes an imagined existence. It’s not clear what distinguishes this from a totally made-up existence or a fantasy. But clearly both can also influence those of us still on the timeline. So the *asterisk* still exists and is real. Simply because you conjured it up today. My current conundrum is: what is the opposite of reality?

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