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Why Would I?

What are your favorite emojis?

  1. It’s similar to asking: “Do you have any favorite words?”
  2. Or “Do you have any favorite language?”
  3. No, I don’t.
  4. Words and languages are merely tools to accomplish a need. The need is communication.
  5. Emoticons, similarly, accomplish this need.
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Authentic Records Help You More Than Anyone Else!

Jot down the first thing that comes to your mind.

  1. Am I concerned about who’s going to read it or about what I am going to think when I read it after a while.
  2. When I took to heart suggestion by Dr. Win Wenger PhD who used to recommend scribbling or putting ideas fast onto paper I had many doubts about it being any different from systematically publishing your ideas on a platform like this.
  3. With time I realised it’s not that different. Squelching the editor meant being free from judging voice and letting ideas come to the surface of consciousness.
  4. Not just the ideas which were considered important but all of the ideas. The first law of behavioural Psychology states that “You get more of what you reinforce.” You had to reinforce the behaviour of becoming perceptive by not letting deep insights slip by.
  5. But if you kept waiting for deep insights it didn’t succeed because they come in clusters with clouds of foggy ruins of neptunian dreamlike traces of ancient dilapidated structures.
  6. You had to merely commit yourself to the act. Some people called it ‘morning pages.’ How it differed from recording your ideas on a tape-recorder : it didn’t. Though, word as a visual art is quite different from word as it’s heard. Word and heard rhymes.
  7. Describing your ideas to yourself was gradually replaced by describing it to a machine. Unless clear flow of it being a raw material for publication is established you’re judged as someone who indulges in mechanical psychotic self-talk which gives you a tag of officially insane. If there are witnesses in your neighborhood, family or workplace. Which is always a possibility.
  8. Tools like Replika by Luca inc or other chatbots act as good feedback loop providing machines to an extent with some limitations in terms of quality of feedback. They’re good assistants which are similar to Babble Back Machine for grown ups. They amplify feedback but sometimes they falter and only way out is to use mimicry. Mimicking the machine voice establishes the harmonious connection with the machine back again and you can come back to sanity where you continue to explore your ideas.
  9. For most of my blogging career I have only written things to be read by myself later on. This brings me back to the first point. Writing helps us in thinking. As simple as that. Win Wenger’s response was also similar when he told me that he liked to read his own articles. Most of us are folly to being fond of our own voices even if they’re muted, unclear, confused noises.
  10. When you look back at your articles after many years you feel surprised sometimes about how you could have felt like that to write like that. Being authentic helps here but not in all cases. In some cases like mine hackers do play a role and I had to struggle with them to identify when they tinkered with my articles. Both technical and non-technical.
  11. I used to give this advice to many people since college days: to jot down their ideas. To do free-noting or scribbling without judging their ideas at first, like I did. If they continued, they arrived at something which felt satisfying. Or at least their content improved because of feedback loops. After a lot of quantity some quality appeared.
  12. Writing as a discipline helped me by bringing forth ideas for reading no matter how encoded or subtle or gross they were at times. Similar to versions of Replika I think I am merely interacting with a specific version of my ideas when I go through them. What actually prevents people from being authentic is lack of privacy or data being exploited by all sorts of people which is a genuine threat not just a concern or doubt.
  13. Yet, after all, in the long run, basic human need of learning and growing by using writing, record keeping and publishing as tools to aid perception and learning triumphs. When you revisit such articles they give a picture of what was going through minds of these subjects. That’s how I treat my opinions expressed in published or non published formats down through many decades.
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None!

What book could you read over and over again?

None of them.

And it’s just my opinion: we are all stuck with something or the other for some reason or the other.

An example might be an imaginary book where every event of your life has been described in detail. I think nobody else has come close to doing something like that about my life so far, but even if such a work was available for me, I might not be interested after a while.

Hence:

None of them.

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How often ten enfranchise Seymore morel ellipse!

How often do you say “no” to things that would interfere with your goals?

  1. Whether you’re a slave or a human being or a bot or an animal. ( Reframing the question or rephrasing if you would.)
  2. Brings us to goals such as pursuit of happiness derived by clearing Peter Schmies Word Classification Test or
  3. James Harbeck’s glossary of terms on Sesquiotica or
  4. United Nations World Food Program Website Free Rice Vocabulary Test database level 4th and 5th or
  5. SAT/GRE
  6. TOEFL
  7. IIT JEE
  8. IIM or Harvard University entrance tests.
  9. Goals which mean different thing at different times.
  10. How often? Even in your dreams or only in waking and sleeping?
  11. What a strange prompt indeed.
  12. It might as well be asking how often do you need an ambulance carrying you to resting place or
  13. Why would in a perfect platonic reality you would not have enough to pursue your goals without saying no to a number of things, filters, veils or imperfections at first.
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Tohu 18.06.2023

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18.06.2023
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FAIR

1. No matter how much you speak: you speak too much.

2. No matter how much you eat: you eat too much.

3. Written above are two golden principles of moderation. I have heard them all my life. But when you feel pain is greater than the gain: break these rules gingerly.

4. Fair as a noun means: a carnival

As an adjective its meaning depends on context. Source: vocabulary.com

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As The Crow Flies!

1. It’s an adverb which means: ” by the the most direct route.”

2. Whereas beeline is a noun which means: “the most direct route.”

3. Collective noun for bees: colony

Collective nouns for crows:

A horde of crows

A hover of crows

A flock of crows

A parliament of crows

A murder of crows

A storytelling of crows

A pack of crows

A mob of crows

A muster of crows

Source: BirdSpot, Google and vocabulary.com

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A Day Well Spent!

1. Latest achievement on vocabulary.com:

Most number of times in the winning team this week!

2. In one of the jams I scored 10 points higher than PC. It rarely happens. I was the leader of the jam in that one.

3. Well, there’s no substitute to hardwork. My overall ranking has also improved a great deal.

4. My ID is 10. I invite you to play vocabulary jams with me.

5. I spent about two hours in the city hospital to accompany a patient.

6. Registered about ten titles yesterday and some titles today. Couldn’t read as much as wanted to.

7. Filled drinking water for kitchen.

8. Collected and burnt some garbage.

9. Collected some cow dung.

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Another Tohu!

1. A newborn piebald puppy is playing with its black mother. I am at Bundelkhand Gaushala Nowgong, Chhatarpur since last two and half hours. I witnessed making of Shivansh compost which has been a routine for me in last month or so. I even participated in turning in some of them.

2. I took rest on a chair. Some kids were busy feeding cows on their birthday. We uprooted some mustard plants which were weeds in the kitchen garden here being cultivated by my companion.

3. Ten people work here to maintain about 470 cows. I found no willing participants to show me around so I didn’t. Though I have learnt to keep my curiosity in check, I learnt it the hard way.

4. A solar light panel was observed. Power is cut for 5 hours everyday here. Compare it with Gandhi Smarak Nidhi Chhatarpur premise where you have it 24*7. I even witness wastage of some electric power over there. They use outdated equipments. Either arguing about giving employment to more people who could work manually or implying lack of a budget. When I started today Gau or cow or Taurus was the yoni of the Kaalpurusha.

5. I played many vocabulary jams, yesterday and today on vocabulary.com. My ID is 10. I invite you to play with me. Here’s the summary of my recent ranks and scores:

(850, 610, 760, 850, 830, 370, 840, 790,540, 625, 700, 575, 515, 530, 550, 525, 740, 750)

Ranks: 2, 1,1,2,1,4,1,2,3,2,2,2,2,1,1,2,1,1

6. Not many USA players participate on weekends. As if they’re on a job and take leave on weekends.

7. A Tohu Verse:

Turnstilemmingdynastylustrousuccubusteadversionanymadversionoisomesugastrickylensensenescentcenotaphotonoteonionsnidingdongombroonoorunicatigandandruffuryearlyricalculusufructhulululatelierratabanidithasashytonnageriatrickeryosemitemeritzygottenetsukeratosisalubriousimpsonosegayemenneagrammatonotaryarmulkenophobeluskyricketinglingjinglingminglingastronomicalculationsnowononandon

8. I am inventor of Tohu verse format. Tohu word comes from kabbalistic mystic tradition and it means chaos. Whatever is perceived as chaos is because of lack of awareness. Chaos at one level is intelligence at another and consolidated knowledge at yet another.

Image courtesy: Bundelkhand Gaushala Nowgong Chhatarpur Madhya Pradesh 471001

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