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The trend I'm seeing

schopenhauer1 September 28, 2019 at 03:23 2925 views 12 comments
The unstated and fiercely defensive belief we are on a mission to bring a way of life and belief system into existence and perpetuate it in perpetuity for it's own sake.

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TheMadFool September 28, 2019 at 04:03 #335292
Quoting schopenhauer1
The unstated and fiercely defensive belief we are on a mission to bring a way of life and belief system into existence and perpetuate it in perpetuity for it's own sake.


The trend will depend
on the size/place of the window opened

like a roller coaster
sometimes higher

but also down
yet I sense no frown

because everyone knows
highs come with lows

trend there is none
truth old as the sun

poetic license
don't light an incense









Noble Dust September 28, 2019 at 06:05 #335311
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ArguingWAristotleTiff September 28, 2019 at 21:54 #335529
Quoting schopenhauer1
The unstated and fiercely defensive belief we are on a mission to bring a way of life and belief system into existence and perpetuate it in perpetuity for it's own sake.


Yeah and?
Do you perceive this trend as a good thing?
TheMadFool September 29, 2019 at 03:43 #335577
Quoting schopenhauer1
The unstated and fiercely defensive belief we are on a mission to bring a way of life and belief system into existence and perpetuate it in perpetuity for it's own sake.


It's strange how the whole trend-thing works. I see trends as memes coming into existence in the minds of few and then getting the right amount of exposure followed by its spread in the global community. Usually it's "good" memes that multiply in a population but the way this happens is not random but also devoid of an control mechanism. Do you think that trends can be controlled in a meaningful way so that we may own as ours or are trends more viral in nature - spreading among the population without any direction or rationale?
schopenhauer1 September 29, 2019 at 14:15 #335678
Quoting ArguingWAristotleTiff
Yeah and?
Do you perceive this trend as a good thing?


No.. What is wrong with non-existence? Why does a way of life need to be perpetuated? Does it always go back to how parents/progenitors of the culture "feel" about seeing others follow a way of life?
schopenhauer1 September 29, 2019 at 14:16 #335679
Quoting TheMadFool
Do you think that trends can be controlled in a meaningful way so that we may own as ours or are trends more viral in nature - spreading among the population without any direction or rationale?


The trend in this case is to create people.
Noble Dust September 30, 2019 at 06:48 #335915
Reply to schopenhauer1

Can I ask your marital status?
S October 01, 2019 at 17:53 #336523
:yawn:
schopenhauer1 October 02, 2019 at 00:10 #336671
Quoting Noble Dust
Can I ask your marital status?


Don't answer that stuff. Why would it matter though?
schopenhauer1 October 02, 2019 at 00:11 #336672
Quoting S
:yawn:


Oh thank god you've been tranqualized.
S October 02, 2019 at 00:14 #336675
Reply to schopenhauer1 :lol: :point:
frank October 02, 2019 at 01:34 #336717
Reply to S That's a barred owl. At around 4 in the morning the say: "Who cooks for you?"