DAILY PHOTO: Festetics-kastély
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PROMPT: Word Over Use [i.e. Weasel Words]
What is a word you feel that too many people use?
“Pre-owned” or any other weasel word used to: a.) make people feel better about a decision they shouldn’t feel bad about in the first place. b.) squeeze more money out of the pockets of dimwitted sheeple. Especially when the people developing / using the term were the ones who (re: item “a”) established the psychological taint in the first place, and (re: item “b”) used said taint to manipulate more money out of purchasers of the competing product. [And – having maximized that manipulation – decided to back over the original victims to shake out some more dimes.]
As far as I’m concerned, users of “pre-owned” and similar weasel words should be treated, legally, in the same way as con men who bilk special needs kids or simpletons out of their life savings (because as far as I can see, that’s all they’re doing.)
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PROMPT: Peace
What brings you peace?
Being in the now, and feeling – but not feeding – emotional sensations.
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Lilliputian Metropolis [Haiku]
a mighty river
makes the mighty city
dwarven by compare.
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Sunset Silhouette [Haiku]
sun sets behind trees,
hiding a city in woodland
silhouette.
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DAILY PHOTO: Budapest Four Seasons [Gresham Palace]
Snail Tree [Haiku]
this odd little shrub
grows snails like seed pods:
or so it seems.
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City Palette [Haiku]
from lush green hills,
the city is painted
in hazy blue-gray.
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DAILY PHOTO: Scenes from Csillaghegy
PROMPT: Admired Profession
What profession do you admire most and why?
I most admire Mad Saints / Crazy Sages because it requires great courage to show a path of thwarting convention, and it demonstrates a level of freedom and self-realization unseen, elsewhere.
Furthermore, unlike the other major contenders, there is no bad motive for entering the field. So, if you want to talk on the whole. Many doctors chased pitiful motives like money, prestige, or simply doing what their parents told them to — unquestioningly. Some teachers became teachers based on the June through August dead time or the love of the power to make kids eat their meat by withholding the pudding. But all crazy sages became so because someone needs to point out the world outside the cave, and they had no capacity to do otherwise.
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