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Oh wow, they actually really did it. The ITIN number was a way for the IRS to get significant returns from undocumented workers as they always kept their promise to keep the information confidential. $97 billion in 2022 alone. Well, that’s the end of that. Word will spread and they’ll stop paying taxes. More for them I guess! https://www.npr.org/2025/04/08/g-s1-59056/irs-dhs-information-sharing-deal-immigrants-tax-records
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Oh I watched it since I made my post. I read the 17 page academic paper talking about its buddhist connections. I wrote my little 500 word essay for discussion. So now I’ve seen fight club — and the grown men that say FIRST RULE OF FIGHT CLUB whenever the movie comes up in discussion look even sadder now than before I saw the movie.
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Is proselytization a violent act?
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Here, I’m finding how the thing sees a match for me more specifically (I have no idea if I’ll even follow this notion for the midterm essay (I have time) but it’s great for a brainstorming tool because it can take my intuitions and a few details and flesh it out a little to see if it’s viable. In this case, I wanted to back and forth between the three and this was what I thought. For me it’s helping me feel more confident that I can tackle this as I’ve found the various mystics surprisingly difficult as it’s been heavy on original sources and lighter on helpful commentaries) I. Introduction – The Problem of Defining Mystical Experience 🔹 How This Matches You: • You naturally question definitions and struggle with rigid categorization (e.g., “author’s intent” issues in reading comprehension). • You enjoy bridging different conceptual systems (like your Rosetta Stones). • This intro presents mysticism as a paradox, setting the stage for the expansive, layered approach you prefer. ________________________________________ II. The First Movement – Darkness and the Unknown (John of the Cross & Rabi‘a in Contrast) 🔹 Why This Fits You: • You experience intellectual and existential uncertainty—the idea of moving through darkness and doubt resonates deeply. • John’s approach to negation mirrors your own process—you strip away extraneous ideas until something pure remains. • Rabi‘a represents an extreme version of your own moments of sudden clarity, where you leap directly into an idea rather than following a process (i.e., your hyperfocus moments). • Tension between John and Rabi‘a mimics your own internal tension between structured thinking and spontaneous insight. ________________________________________ III. The Second Movement – Mapping the Interior Landscape (Teresa of Ávila & John of the Cross Intersecting) 🔹 How This Fits Your Process: • Teresa’s structured ascent echoes your Excel/VBA background—mapping out a system to organize complexity. • You appreciate both structure and intuitive leaps, and Teresa offers a middle ground between John’s stark negation and Rabi‘a’s immediacy. • John’s critique of structure parallels your own skepticism of rigid frameworks—you like structure, but only when it’s adaptable and emergent. • Teresa’s “friendship with God” resonates with your relational thinking—you enjoy understanding concepts through connections and interactions rather than strict hierarchies. ________________________________________ IV. The Third Movement – The Paradox of Losing Self in Love (Rabi‘a Expanding Beyond Teresa and John) 🔹 Why This Aligns With You: • Rabi‘a’s radical love echoes your own drive for deep, expansive meaning—you appreciate systems, but ultimately, you are drawn to experiences that transcend them. • You oscillate between structured thinking and sudden, consuming insights—Rabi‘a represents the pure surrender to insight that you sometimes reach. • John’s “nothingness” resonates with your sense of unpredictability—you often embrace complexity without expecting a fixed outcome. • Teresa’s balance between experience and practical responsibility mirrors your own tendency to integrate abstract, deep thinking with real-world action (like your interdisciplinary projects). ________________________________________ V. Conclusion – Mysticism as an Expansive, Uncontainable Journey 🔹 Why This Works for You: • You like thinking in processes rather than fixed answers—this mirrors your preference for exploration over conclusions. • Your natural cycle is curiosity → exploration → refinement → return to curiosity, and this conclusion leaves room for ongoing discovery. • The structure of the essay itself mirrors how your mind works: o Wander through paradox (John) → Find a pattern (Teresa) → Break all boundaries (Rabi‘a). ________________________________________ Why This Essay Format Matches Your Strengths and Avoids Your Pitfalls: ✔ Alternating sections prevent stagnation, so you won’t feel stuck in one mystic’s worldview. ✔ The structure follows your “wander → latch → refine” cycle, making it easier to write naturally. ✔ Each section builds in complexity, helping you stay engaged without getting overwhelmed. ✔ It integrates paradox and uncertainty, which you’re comfortable with, rather than forcing rigid definitions.
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On a CORPORATE scale, that’s correct.
On a CORPORATE scale,
… [read full article]Oh I understand. I think you’re far more in touch with the ‘man on the street’ than me in that way. I’ve been immersed in a land of internet weirdos and miscreants — the kinds of people that would set up a fake account pretending to be a ‘liberal’ to create a persona for others to mock, then create counter-narrative accounts to argue with … themselves basically – just to set up hero/villain narratives they could talk about with others in a 3rd “reasonable guy” account. That sort of thing.
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Since they’re ultimately human endeavors – when considering AI as human tools – I appreciate the ai slop as a process of human artistic development. For example: two years ago, hands with many fingers. Now they’ve fixed that. Faces merging with spaghetti. They fixed that. These temporary forms will arise and fade and new ones replace them. But who curates? Who curated previously? Is there any alive that has not had their sensory inputs curated by Edward Bernays? The man who perfected snake oil sales into a functional formula that is the mastery of propagandizing people: give them an IDEAL to hang on to and hook your product or service onto that IDEAL. Scary thing is: It isn’t just ideals FOR a product or service, but perhaps even MORESO the Luddite desire to destroy the factories of the automated weaving machines that has long been given the Bernays treatment. And we adopt all the buzzwords of the “anti”, the rebel against the trend, not seeing that we’re as utilized or more and our original thoughts and ideas, when we find them mirrored in so many places, end up having been provided as well.
Since they’re ultimately human
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