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  2. I've been reading some books lately.
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  4. I read The Metamorphosis yesterday.
  5. lockie has changed mode: +v bengt
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  7. That was extremely good.
  8. ICantEven
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  10. remphite
  11. freekoala: i meant the blue team or pink team
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  13. I think there was an interesting vegan interpretation of The Metamorphosis.
  14. Ana_Ng
  15. crème brûlée mes amis
  16. remphite
  17. which switch team is this mother fucking hitter playing for
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  19. i can easily order the highest calorie dishes
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  21. I put remphite on block.
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  23. Today, I've been reading The Stranger.
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  25. It makes me laugh so much.
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  27. italian fett, root beer float, crème brûlée
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  29. I'm currently writing in the style of Meursault. I kind of like that.
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  31. When thinking about the nature of Meursault I oscillate at least points of view: 1) he's a psycopath -- simple, and 2) he is expressing a high degree of Buddhist equanimity.
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  33. Then I wonder, "Is there any difference between the two?"
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  35. Maybe to have Buddhist equanimity instead of psychopathy you have to have once had the ability to participate in the drama and social narratives that humans fill their lives with, and then transcend that.
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  37. But if you just skip to the end you're a psychopath.
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  39. But, it feels kind of unfair to penalize those that do the job more efficiently.
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  41. Oh, I also went through Oedipus Tyrannus, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone in the last few days.
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  43. It's kind of nice to make progress through the most famous works of literature. Whenever I complete one I switch its color from red to green in my spreadsheet and that feels good.
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  45. I thought the analysis of the meaning the polis provides to man as a justification of state power in Antigone to be interesting.
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  47. Also, the recognition that the state extends and subsume much of the meaning and order that is originally in family, often while venerating familial relationships as the most sacred -- presumably to gain the trust of the citizens -- while supplanting it to be noteworthy.
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  49. It also caused me to reflect on the human proclivity to organize their social relationships, in part, by using patterns they believe they observe in nature 'outside' of man, e.g. the king of the jungle in the lion and the 'alpha wolf' in wolf groups.
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  51. I remember that video I saw a few weeks ago that reviewed a scientific paper showing there are no alpha wolves and that wolf packs are just extended families. The dominant wolves are just the oldest mom and dad and everybody else are their immediate descendants.
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  53. Which is to say, that humans have very little precedent to leverage for non-familial social organizations the kind we encounter in almost all of our contacts with humans in the workplace, on IRC, or in our daily tasks.
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  55. We feel lonely and unsure of how to sort ourselves, and so we make up stories about our psychological patterns being present 'out there'.
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