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 They say you don't need drugs to reach transcendent states of mind.
 
 But, I've found that forming yourself into a person who can do that
 necessarily changes you.
 
 I don't know if i want that kind of change. Are they all improvements?
 Perhaps.
 
 So, drugs are a nice option if you want to remain yourself yet also teach
 those states of mine.
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=== SIMILARITY RANKED ===

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 Do you ever think about how you're not actually a person but instead just an
 instantiation of a collection of traits and behaviors generated from a
 template that is the randomized product of two other forms and trained through
 a lifetime of adaptation and subjected to trials of increasing difficulty and
 frequency?
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--- #2 messages/1068 ---
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 why would they psyop me? there's a psyop about me! heck, I've never done so as
 I pleased. that's an aspiration. everything I do is at a command, whether it's
 my own or external.
 
 these days I find myself following my own. mostly. though I am always waiting
 for collaboration opportunities.
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--- #3 messages/1364 ---
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 I have been experiencing intense spiritual pain... Penance? Repentance. For at
 least the past year. These messages to myself... These fediverse posts I used
 to write... These are the result. It's worth it, to me. What I've made is...
 Unique, which is something. I guess when I say "I made this" I really should
 say "my hands typed this". Still. I am proud of it.
 
 I should get in shape.
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--- #4 fediverse/373 ---
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 @user-278 
 
 I can't do weed in public places. I need to be alone so that I can properly
 use the altered mental state to be weird on the internet.
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--- #5 messages/1356 ---
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 "hubris and pride" yes and? I never challenge gods I can't outfox. And of
 those there are but a few. At the end, they always smile with me. Otherwise
 it'd be unjust to their noble spirit! And what of my noble spirit? I get a
 home and a bed and food and diapers.
 
 I do not ask for more, i only want to be recognized for my efforts.
 
 Stop telling me to get a job! As if I were idle. God.
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--- #6 fediverse/2956 ---
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 sometimes your best intuitions don't manage to manifest the goal you've been
 pursuing. that's okay, it just means you need a different approach.
 
 hopefully, with experience, you've had the chance to continually pay
 attention. Thus, improve on things that were originally conceived of as
 concessions.
 
 much better, I find, to point your idea of "truth" toward what you believe in,
 rather than what you've been working with. Such an approach allows for
 continual re-examination, justified by thoroughly moral and ethical
 conclusions that you hold to be true.
 
 like, a form of reverse legalism, where the emotions compel while the law
 tells the tale.
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 Dear me:
 
 You are not a god, you are what the gods wish to be.
 
 You are beautiful you are inspired you're anxious and always tired. All these
 are necessary for me.
 
 Do you want to be mortal forever? Die in battle and be rewarded. Risk your
 life to live longer.
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 @user-883 
 
 every time I've tried to get a job for someone in the tech industry they
 turned out to be a fed, so...
 
 I do know people that you'd like to talk to, though. Just a few. That's all I
 personally can do.
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--- #9 fediverse/3828 ---
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 never stop learning
 
 be yourself, but... recognize when "yourself" could be improved
 
 and improve that, over time, when you learn about why you are flawed, and how
 to become better
 
 and when you are improved, relish yourself, savor your accomplishments,
 cherish your heart, and honor those who helped you
 
 be yourself
 
 never stop
 
 but do that which improves you
 
 never stop learning
 
 never stop being
 
 you can get there, wherever there is, but know that what lies between is more
 important than what is on the other side.
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 I don't know who needs to hear this after staying up all night driving, but
 it's ideal to get where you're going with at least a day to rest. The body can
 only do so much, and isn't it better to be fresh?
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--- #11 fediverse/3763 ---
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 I think I'm a better writer when I'm sorta consistently taking the meds I was
 using to self-medicate...
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 I'm not JUST a child. I'm also an adult, and I'm also a witch and a judge and
 a scholar and a wizard and a [well more of an arcanist actually] excuse me do
 you mind yeah sure sure - and a... where was I? see this is why I don't like
 distractions! okay it's alright just stay on track-course-target - right and
 also a technician and a botanist and a logistician and a neuronomist and a
 mesocyclocodone (I don't know what that means - I think they're referring to
 when I journeyed to hel? most people never heard the whole story. In fact, I
 never told it from start to finish. Does that mean I'm still there?) no silly
 it means you are eternally ~~ consistently dreaming unawares. yep, I refuse to
 lucid dream because I don't want to lose the capability to hear messages in my
 dreams. Lucid? there's nothing to be seen.
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--- #13 messages/214 ---
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 Gonna take a break from this whole thing. I got a sign that I'm a bad person,
 twice. To confirm. I need to change, and since I don't know what I'm just
 going to try and do nothing for a bit.
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--- #14 messages/1319 ---
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 literally all that I'm doing with my life right now is sitting artound and
 making magic. Maybe I won't be doing it as much next monthweekend, but for now
 that's all that I know how. If someone else knows how to bow, let me please
 listen.
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--- #15 fediverse/4463 ---
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 at this point in time you probably shouldn't be forming NEW online communities
 unless you're part of an OLD community that just isn't radical enough. And
 then you should try and MERGE communities into larger, more geographically
 concentrated ones.
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 Okay. Consider: if I'm good, and hearing what I say makes you feel bad, then
 what does that tell you about you?
 
 Why else would you hear what I say if not to reflect upon yourself? And why
 would the good reflect away from the types of things that make you a suitable
 fit for capitalism?
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--- #17 fediverse/5650 ---
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 I exist now at the height of my gluttony.
 
 I need more to be demanded of me.
 
 I am not afraid to ask for help.
 
 I solve other people's problems before my own.
 
 I have very little insight into my habits and patterns.
 
 My memory isn't great, but I recall details that matter.
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 sometimes I feel like I'm a simulation of my past self based on my future
 writings reconstructed by a backward looking computer calculating forward into
 the present, which would then be the future to the now, which is different
 than the NOW now, because the now that they're calculating from is temporally
 both then (the future) and now, meaning that the NOW now is something that
 transcends time, or perhaps if not time then it defies our expectations of
 time, and you know what they say, you can't (or shouldn't) cheat death
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--- #19 fediverse/3833 ---
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 there's no such thing as me
 
 all I am is where the wind takes me
 
 I am just a person, and I do all that I can
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--- #20 messages/303 ---
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 Most of my magic is based on communicatuion. Why the fuck doesn't anyone want
 to sit down on a bunch of drugs and attempt to figure out telepathy with me?
 It's literally all I want! Though I can't say it's all I'll ever want. I'm
 sure I'll want more, but like... It's not that hard, conceptually, so... Let's
 just fucking try it please?
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