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# 20241020
you are to be asked 7 questions you don’t know the answer to
each one a question that would have been impossible to form or ask prior to your previous answer
until you’re in territory where the only thing you recognize is you
***
healthy language
that's what I'm studying
that's what all of this is
all consciousness has to experience is language
I'm studying the meta-patterns of healthy language
which are the *only* patterns of language
because language *doesn't work* if it doesn't rewrite itself along the way
***
oppenheimer and us in the same room\
rending and mending\
thank you, abraham
noah’s arc\
that’s where I was burned by the sun\
thank you, [kenneth kenworthy](https://www.google.com/search?q=define+ken)
***
the most basic viable form of an organism reflects this pattern:
it is both an experience, and something you can take home. you can interact with those two aspects as separate channels. as you interact with one, it internally collaborates with the other to serve you.
for example, an entity that operates a restaurant and also operates a homewares shop (e.g. ABC in Manhattan)
or aesop, with their architecturally thoughtful physical presence in a neighborhood, and their goods for the skin
there are always two purposes that feed into each other, either of which a third party can interact with transactionally
the third party’s presence is the input to the overall system
the third party’s input is the output of the overall system
the output of the overall system is a seed of the overall system itself
***
if an entity has growth to do yet in an area, prohibiting the behaviors involved will eventually not work
cheating, booze, etc
but also, hitting the pause button on something is okay, and that can be a way to look at the act of prohibition
a temporary halt, maybe even until the next lifetime, so that organic motion can express itself cleanly, in its own time — coming out (tantamount to overcoming the prohibition) when it’s good and ready
***
I am an additive
Cannot ever become dominant
Very important
***
What would I need to not know,
In order to get where I wanted to go?
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