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why drinking? Always! i should try that i love old knowable things everything! Bigger out West generalization, but ok (I do the same) Phaedrus morning person for sure practical vs. artsy is romanticism irrational, or just differently rational? put ice under your hat this whole thing is so **** Hollywood. i dislike hierarchies- they’re simplifications but they should! superficially he’s not really here ha! (Me)     he’s trying, rather poorly, to fill the spaces with something other than thought i see a maze where you take every left metaphor whoa guys whoa but he doesn’t thought for the sake of thought is dangerous but what? never truth, only conjecture hmm? but is it a human invention? ah the perfect example i am so intrigued by this unusual phrasing building a base quite bitter, this one i’m bringing the whole thing down the knife! meet an old friend for the first time i can’t draw a straight line as he tries so hard to be sounds like me when I’m vague too much trust in technology this reminds me of Ishmael *** *** *** it’s all making so much sense now familiar but ever-changing is what I want a disciple! when the only possible solution is go nuts- go nuts. he’s a driven man let me think you need to narrow the lens semi-aggro yes yes yes yes yes no immediate penalty he’s typesetting why do people need so many rules, rubrics and objectivity? what’s wrong with a little mystery? trying to define quality the problem with philosophy is incomplete definitions to important words hmmm, I disagree using a lot more ellipses a noble ambition awe some should just bend and snap from this wind already so much of the world is already inferred i hate Socrates for this the problem with words an example, but what does it prove? eliminate the knife! hurts my head with its obviousness aah, I see a little cloudy, but there’s some sun he’s entering rarified air story of my life he’s losing me me gusta numbers are a human invention, after all this is over my head be in the open country with someone a generalist, too i am most productive on coffee a philosopher could write a 1000 page novel on the question “Are we alive?” And I could just say “Yes” and be done with it let’s explode them so monotone beautiful   up the mountain, down to the ocean he’s getting absolutist again here- have your cake and eat it too back on track getting tired of the lack of transition like the houses on the way to Atherton you’ve said this 500 times, let’s see it already it’s slackening for me how to BE the motorcycle i hate twilight depression i want a motorcycle the ***** loves dividing things this is all preparation completing the flow chart this used to be me, but I’m getting better fix yourself before the machine degrees of specificity, scope a sense of the inner pressure time away from noise and people helps him peer into that contradiction, that void so ready to give in intense… full of something i know the problem-         it’s wild, but safe too long this has built up part three was terrible he’s experiencing universal loneliness no more dams! so much between the lines battle of wits, I’m having fun stop, eat, drive, eat, sleep, drive, etc mans burden never surrender it’s moving too fast for me to keep up but this requires a restructuring of thought and        even    society. 1988/2019
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May 7, 2019
May 7, 2019 at 2:41 AM UTC
this is all common sense & preparation
why drinking? Always! i should try that i love old knowable things everything! Bigger out West generalization, but ok (I do the same) Phaedrus morning person for sure practical vs. artsy is romanticism irrational, or just differently rational? put ice under your hat this whole thing is so **** Hollywood. i dislike hierarchies- they’re simplifications but they should! superficially he’s not really here ha! (Me)     he’s trying, rather poorly, to fill the spaces with something other than thought i see a maze where you take every left metaphor whoa guys whoa but he doesn’t thought for the sake of thought is dangerous but what? never truth, only conjecture hmm? but is it a human invention? ah the perfect example i am so intrigued by this unusual phrasing building a base quite bitter, this one i’m bringing the whole thing down the knife! meet an old friend for the first time i can’t draw a straight line as he tries so hard to be sounds like me when I’m vague too much trust in technology this reminds me of Ishmael *** *** *** it’s all making so much sense now familiar but ever-changing is what I want a disciple! when the only possible solution is go nuts- go nuts. he’s a driven man let me think you need to narrow the lens semi-aggro yes yes yes yes yes no immediate penalty he’s typesetting why do people need so many rules, rubrics and objectivity? what’s wrong with a little mystery? trying to define quality the problem with philosophy is incomplete definitions to important words hmmm, I disagree using a lot more ellipses a noble ambition awe some should just bend and snap from this wind already so much of the world is already inferred i hate Socrates for this the problem with words an example, but what does it prove? eliminate the knife! hurts my head with its obviousness aah, I see a little cloudy, but there’s some sun he’s entering rarified air story of my life he’s losing me me gusta numbers are a human invention, after all this is over my head be in the open country with someone a generalist, too i am most productive on coffee a philosopher could write a 1000 page novel on the question “Are we alive?” And I could just say “Yes” and be done with it let’s explode them so monotone beautiful   up the mountain, down to the ocean he’s getting absolutist again here- have your cake and eat it too back on track getting tired of the lack of transition like the houses on the way to Atherton you’ve said this 500 times, let’s see it already it’s slackening for me how to BE the motorcycle i hate twilight depression i want a motorcycle the ***** loves dividing things this is all preparation completing the flow chart this used to be me, but I’m getting better fix yourself before the machine degrees of specificity, scope a sense of the inner pressure time away from noise and people helps him peer into that contradiction, that void so ready to give in intense… full of something i know the problem-         it’s wild, but safe too long this has built up part three was terrible he’s experiencing universal loneliness no more dams! so much between the lines battle of wits, I’m having fun stop, eat, drive, eat, sleep, drive, etc mans burden never surrender it’s moving too fast for me to keep up but this requires a restructuring of thought and        even    society. 1988/2019
* Note to the reader. The below poem was 100% taken in order of page from the scribbled notes in an old copy of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. The author of the erudite scribbles is unknown and I am indebted to their depth, humor and zest.
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32/F/Reno, NV
May 7, 2019
May 7, 2019 at 2:41 AM UTC
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