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I have always seen myself as the Perceptivist of the Unseen—a wanderer in the realms where shadows whisper and silence speaks.

Liberia
Joined July 2020
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if quiddity can’t be fixed, then “the quiddity still remains” should be read as “a recognizable continuity persists”, not “an essence survives untouched.” growth-talk is still often inflated especially when it implies a metaphysical upgrade but it isn’t necessarily superficial.
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the surface is where the quiddity is being made and remade.
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i went into your mother your mother your mother unprepared. by the end i was in tears, not at the violence, but at the old, nearly forgotten truth that a loved one’s prayer can resurrect you.
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i don’t share my grandmother’s superstition, but she seemed never to be wrong about one thing: when your left palm itches, it means bad luck. after years of denying it, i’ve come to think the strangeness lies less in the omen than in
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memory. the few times the itch is followed by misfortune become memorable proof, while the many times nothing happens quietly disappear. what feels like evidence of the superstition is really evidence of how selectively memory gathers it.
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how can this wet meat behind my eyes produce so much kuebiko in me, this scarecrow stillness i can't shake?
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Happy birthday to Dizzy Gillespie, born on this day in 1917! Trumpeter and composer at the center of bebop, alongside Charlie Parker. Later a key figure in Afro-Cuban jazz, with a signature bent horn and blazing upper register.
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in the dancing of these flames, we catch a glimpse of the old, univocal world where the inner warmth of the soul and the outer warmth of the hearth were one and the same. the fire is not a 'thing' we observe; it is an event in which we are still, whether we know it or not,
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participating.
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In a quiet Chinese village, a heritage guardian keeps a 1,000-year-old craft alive: making Longquan celadon by hand. Watch clay become jade-like porcelain. Timeless beauty, passed down. #LongquanCeladon #IntangibleCulturalHeritage #ChineseCraft
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When I say “bed bath and beyond” just know I’m talmbout “bath and body works”
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sitting in an asana while doing a single arm dumbbell curl is actually a really interesting workout.
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sleep is often characterized as a lesser death. i understand the analogy, but i personally think it understates the peculiar ontology of sleep. death is an end; sleep is an interruption from which something returns. further, the temporary dissolution of consciousness without the
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dissolution of the self renders sleep less an approximation of death than a recurring suspension of subjective continuity, in which the self somehow reconstitutes itself upon waking.
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I’m envious of people who can consume copious amounts of cheese with such impunity.
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Hmm, Some pretty interesting theories in here. I’m not a Navy SEAL, but I was in Special Forces, and I was blessed with three daughters. We lost one along the way.
So interesting Navy seals are always havin daughters
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I think my laconicism with people comes from my awareness of ephemerality. I experience each moment as something already passing, which probably makes me sentimental in ways people may not expect. But sentimentality depends on the moment you’re talking about.
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Life is meant to be lived, not romanticized.
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