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That makes it easier to see how there could be opposing views, going back to you saying you see success where others see failure - or vice-versa. Differing levels of emotional satisfaction gained from the same experience.

I would think it would also go back to what the expectation of the experience was and the emotional value attached to the expectation.

The experience itself may hold more value to one party, while the outcome is of more importance to another. It would seem that if the value lies in the experience, it would be easier to be satisfied with the outcome because there is little emotional attachment to it. Whereas if the outcome holds the emotional value and is not emotionally satisfying, the entire experience could be felt as a failure - tainted emotionally by an unsatisfactory outcome.

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Do you think expectation and hope are the same thing? I was just thinking, if they are, living without expectation would be living without hope.

Hard pass.

Do you think expectation and hope are the same thing? I was just thinking, if they are, living without expectation would be living without hope.

Hard pass.

It's a peculiar human quirk that we brand our more depressing perceptions as 'realistic', whilst any form of optimism is considered to be 'tempting fate' and raising our hopes in order to let us down. But hope isn't a dodgy salesman. It's a reputable force with genuine power.

But hope isn't a dodgy salesman. It's a reputable force with genuine power.

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Yes.

But also a 'power' tool too often used with the end game of dominating and subjugating others.

Granted - there will always be ready and willing kneelers strung out on the Hopium du jour™ by genetic default - but knowing why they are engineered to kneel takes all meaningful sport out of that game.

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One must begin with one, and that one has no particular qualities. Therefore, so long as you have an authority properly centralized it does not really matter what that authority is. In the Pope we have such an authority ready made, and it is the gravest tactical blunder to endeavour to set up an authority opposed to him. Success in doing so means war, and failure anarchy.

there is a method to our madness



every social structure within every culture is constructed the same way thus the visible alteration of the environment that the central unit of all structures function within is a pre requisite

this has now occurred of

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The great themes of world mythology are universal: the story of a former age of gods and wonders, whose first chapter was a “perfect” time of peace and plenty; the story of an exemplary "king of the world," the mythic first in the line of kings; descriptions of the gods as luminaries of immense size and power, wielding weapons of thunder and stone; the universal claim that the ancient world evolved by critical phases or cycles, punctuated by sweeping catastrophe; global traditions of gods and heroes ruling for a time, then departing amidst terrifying spectacles and upheavals. The transfiguration of the departed gods into "stars"; the identification of these ruling gods with planets in the first astronomies.

Even prior to the birth of the great civilizations, humans around the world drew remarkably similar pictures of things never seen in our sky. The “sun’ they carved on stone does not look the Sun in our sky. In the birthplace of astronomy we see a crescent placed on ancient images of the “sun,” and a radiant "star" placed squarely in its center. Neither our moon nor any star can be reconciled with such patterns, many of which are global.

What was the cosmic mountain celebrated around the world, called a pillar of fire and light rising along the world axis? And what was the radiant city or temple of heaven, remembered as the prototype for sacred space on earth?

To such collective memories must be added that of a star-goddess with long-flowing locks, a goddess revered as "the giver of life"; the transformation of this goddess into an ogress raging across the sky with wildly disheveled hair; a fiery serpent or dragon attacking the world; an ancestral warrior or hero, born from the womb of the star-goddess to free the world from chaos monsters.

Do you think expectation and hope are the same thing? I was just thinking, if they are, living without expectation would be living without hope.

Hard pass.

I think they are, in a sense, the same thing.

"Hope for the best, but expect the worst."

Looks to me like a sliding scale of a reaction to the same unknown - the future.

Hope for the best and plan for the worst, but expect nothing.

I find expecting nothing impossible, because there is always something happening, so nothing can never happen. It's like 0 to me - nonexistent.

Lol, reading that, that may be an aether thought.

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Whatever that means...

In all things, or in terms of personal success?

i instantly noticed the emotional values of my matter shape that is the same shape as me before i was 3 prompting the dog god wepeawet to talk to me quickly


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my attraction to being me being matter is and was caused by the visible impression upon matter that causes the shaping of gaias landscapes
i like the experiences the shaping upon gaia causes
the history of gaias architecture is not a history of modern man design or construction

I find expecting nothing impossible, because there is always something happening, so nothing can never happen. It's like 0 to me - nonexistent.

Lol, reading that, that may be an aether thought.