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Sometimes it feels like we’re living a version of ourselves that’s already been edited.
Ever get that strange sense that a memory, a place, or even an emotion doesn’t quite belong to this life?
Maybe some drafts of who we are never fully disappear.

Full reflection here:
clickworlddaily.com/2025/05/th

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NPR is the best we can get, there's not one national news org truly about the people, not corporate consumption and profits. So they need some red pen from time to time.
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@vnikolov

> Now I am reminded (maybe it's a distant
> association) of John Maynard Keynes
>(I think): "in the long run we're all dead".

Yeah, this kind of obvious truth is troublesome. I have a closely related haiku (original context climatejustice.social/@kentpit):

borrowed from Nothing
we, and Time itself, pretend
we were here at all

Climate Justice SocialKent Pitman (@kentpitman@climatejustice.social)@Aphelion@mastodon.sdf.org borrowed from Nothing we, and Time itself, pretend we were here at all #haiku #senryu #physics #universe #CreationMyth #poem
#haiku#senryu#poem

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." ~ Douglas Adams

Scientists Discovered Something Kinda Alarming: The Universe Shouldn't Actually Exist –Popular Mechanics

popularmechanics.com/space/dee

Popular Mechanics · Scientists Discovered Something Kinda Alarming: The Universe Shouldn't Actually ExistBy Jackie Appel

"Subtle alterations to some existing and established thought elements have been suggested, i’m perusing aspects of this new exercise but my mind grudgingly attempts conformation..."

read 'considering change' an opinion piece by for much deliberation published on write.as...

#writing #fmdnetwork #opinions #ProsePoetry #dailylife #individualism #society #existence
write.as/for-much-deliberation

for much deliberation · considering change...Subtle alterations to some existing and established thought elements have been suggested, i’m perusing aspects of this new exercise but my mind grudgingly at...