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Scott Dudley @dyttocs.bsky.social · 9h

Do you still suppose you appear mortal? Be kind today for only your supposition seems mortal; the illusion may fade.

Scott Dudley @dyttocs.bsky.social · 9h

When searching for one's reading glasses, one must look far away, or use one's hands. The analogy applies to finding one's true self as well.

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Scott Dudley @dyttocs.bsky.social · 9h

Every once in a while leap with all your might because you never know when the pot of water you're sitting in is slowly building to a boil, the gradual hotter is not noticed until it is fatal my froggie friends.

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Scott Dudley @dyttocs.bsky.social · 1d

Once the forest is cleared and the field is plowed, fallowing does not restore nature. It seems the same with humans. More is needed.

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Scott Dudley @dyttocs.bsky.social · 1d

Has a strawman vibe to it without specific citations/examples. Some the opposition does well but they avoid friendly fire, something seemingly the left struggles with. And maybe that’s healthy. Haven’t honestly see much far left smoke at Mamdani, a much greater concern is center ambivalence.

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Scott Dudley @dyttocs.bsky.social · 1d

I think the broader point is regardless of how much your conscious mind is committed to an identity factor, the unconscious holds almost all the cards, so your assumption of identity consciously is subject to the concordance of subconscious and that seems not to be guaranteed.

Scott Dudley @dyttocs.bsky.social · 1d

It was an example, not a conclusive limitation, if that makes sense. However the 95/5 consciousness split is a fairly commonly agreed to dimension.

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Scott Dudley @dyttocs.bsky.social · 2d

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Scott Dudley @dyttocs.bsky.social · 3d

Daily Bonsai: Red Ezo Spruce. In training since 1939. #bonsai

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Scott Dudley @dyttocs.bsky.social · 3d

Hats off to the Sci-Fi writers who successfully imagined we'd be glued to electronic devices. Probably begin to call them prophets and dissect their other imagined futures like tea leaves for emerging truths. Phillip K. Dirk, talking to you among others.

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Scott Dudley @dyttocs.bsky.social · 3d

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Scott Dudley @dyttocs.bsky.social · 3d

Love how water tries to own air’s super power. Fluidity. Who does it better than air? It’s so sudden, it’s instant. Water has to pour in like a cat stretching, all cool and languid. Kicking out the air that had gotten there first.

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Scott Dudley @dyttocs.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve driven cross country four times and shopped there, either coming or going, three times. Very nice folks.

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Scott Dudley @dyttocs.bsky.social · 4d

Very cool. This summer an eight year old feral Alex got sick and decided to be coddled and cuddled and ministered too and he recovered but kept the affection. It’s nice when they turn.

Scott Dudley @dyttocs.bsky.social · 4d

Coulda, woulda, shoulda…

Consensus (Direct Democracy @ Occupy Wall Street)

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Scott Dudley @dyttocs.bsky.social · 4d

If life was the Monopoly game, then 'busy' and 'doing' would be the Chance and Community Chest spaces. And serious players dread wasting accumulation time landing on them in the beginning, yet view them as safe haven as the game moves on. And one can aimlessly spend the whole game landing on them.

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Scott Dudley @dyttocs.bsky.social · 4d

Living on default settings does not absolve one of responsibility for the outcome. It is not the autopilot that crashes the plane, but the one who fails to take the joystick in their hand and truly fly.

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Scott Dudley @dyttocs.bsky.social · 4d

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Scott Dudley @dyttocs.bsky.social · 4d

It occurs to me when we couch our truths to shelter the triggered, it may be the untriggered who benefit most, as they can proceed unencumbered by hard truth hitting their conscience. I see this in mental health, sexuality, and towards the environment.

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Scott Dudley @dyttocs.bsky.social · 4d

Absolutely and that is an accurate descriptor of being taken from the wild and put into a small pot and then each growth tied and formed into a mini-tree appearing stunted plant. That bonsai plants not uncommonly live hundreds of years under this relationship are loved and cared for daily balances.

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