What positive emotion do you feel most often?
Contentment: the most sustainable of feelings.
PROMPT: Emotion
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PROMPT: Emergency Plan
Create an emergency preparedness plan.
For Zombies: walk briskly.
For Global Thermonuclear War: Find a nice place near a likely ground zero for instantaneous demolecularization — so as to avoid slow death by radiation sickness & nuclear winter starvation.
For Climate Change: carry a Nomex suit, a rubber raft, and an umbrella.
For aliens: assume Roddenberry was right until proven otherwise. (If Hawking was right, we’re screwed anyway.)
For all else: maintain a peppy, can-do attitude.
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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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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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PROMPT: Shop
If you were going to open up a shop, what would you sell?
Experiences. There are already too many stores selling geegaws and tchotchkes, and people are too good at buying and collecting them. Experiences! Now there’s a market with plenty of room for growth.
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PROMPT: Most Important Thing
What is the most important thing to carry with you all the time?
Awareness. It’s the only thing I take in the shower or through the metal detectors, or to every place I go – regardless of widely varying customs, rules, and etiquette.
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PROMPT: Alternate Universe
Describe your life in an alternate universe.
If there is any alternate universe, there are probably infinite alternate universes. So, I am everyone, everywhere, all at once, any how.
In my best moments, I feel like that already.
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PROMPT: Habit
Describe one habit that brings you joy.
I found the one from “The Flying Nun” to be quite whimsical, and it inspired jovial moments.
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PROMPT: Curiosity
What are you curious about?
Everything. But I have learned to be less obsessed with the grand metaphysical questions for which no one has any defensible answers – just rank speculation. Socrates convinced me it’s not worth worrying about abstractions while one is still struggling with fundamental questions of how to be human.
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