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dah
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response 25 of 35:
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Oct 9 18:29 UTC 2003 |
Re. 20: No, there's nothing physical to it. Indeed, it most often happens
when I'm withdrawn in thought and slightly disassociated from my surroundings.
I'm not sure what you mean by summoning them; mine just fit into my train of
thought where apt. Usually, the discussions asimply me explaining complex
thoughts I have in normal language; that is, I am able to reaffirm what I know
on a higher level by explaining it to a conciousness apparently other than
my own. But let's not think I'm crazy here: I understand that the cognitive
guests are simply part of my mind, and they're not overbearing or anything
like that.
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mdw
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response 26 of 35:
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Oct 9 18:52 UTC 2003 |
There's a difference between intelligence, common sense, & experience.
Wisdom is some combination of at least the last two that you only get
with age. Experience is of much less value without the common sense to
take advantage of that experience. Simple lack of thought makes anybody
look stupid, but it takes real intelligence to look truely foolish. It
is not always easy to distinguish between the mark of genius and a
complete fool, because you only find a true genius 1% of the time,
followed by a continuum that shades into foolishness.
I don't have discrete "uninvited" guests who show up and camp out in my
head. I do have thoughts that show up as snide comments which are not
necessarily what I meant to be thinking. I'm quite capable of arguing
with myself, or inventing characters, or imagining myself discussing
something with somebody, and I don't always have an organized thought
train that leads to this happening in my imagination. Unless I'm really
*really* tired and under some sort of seriously weird stress, though,
what happens in my imagination is usually pretty much under my conscious
control.
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lynne
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response 27 of 35:
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Oct 9 19:25 UTC 2003 |
I have conversations with real people. They're just not necessarily always
present for them, so I have to provide their responses as well as my own. :)
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rcurl
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response 28 of 35:
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Oct 10 00:32 UTC 2003 |
Re #22: L.L.Bean! (But I got it because a new catalog arrived from them
today....but at least I remembered that that was the store whose name I
could not remember....)
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aruba
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response 29 of 35:
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Oct 10 13:45 UTC 2003 |
I experience the same phenomenon with crossword puzzles ar Rane does. I
figure that when you think about a problem for a little while, a little rut
forms in your brain, so that ideas always get channelled along a certain
path. If you wait a while, the rut smooths over, and ideas can go in new
and better directions.
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dah
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response 30 of 35:
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Oct 10 15:04 UTC 2003 |
Honestly, you have no idea.
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rcurl
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response 31 of 35:
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Oct 10 19:34 UTC 2003 |
Re #29: or perhaps after you form that rut, the "answers" swirling around
the brain fall into it if they fit. That is (to make it clearer) the
question "receptor" is formed and eventually picks up the answer "ligand".
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tsty
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response 32 of 35:
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Oct 11 04:45 UTC 2003 |
rcurl, remmers, aruba, mdw adn i share similar mind-space. it;s quite
startling for hte first few occurrances. expected after a while.
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dah
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response 33 of 35:
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Oct 11 16:57 UTC 2003 |
Oh. I don't think it's at all unusual. Usually, the grand extrapolations
happen after sleep, when I do it. happened just this morning.
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tsty
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response 34 of 35:
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Nov 4 06:36 UTC 2003 |
but, dah, you are on grex, with grexers ... it wouldn't be statistically
unusual for us.
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willcome
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response 35 of 35:
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Nov 27 08:06 UTC 2003 |
whore.
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