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@ttiimmees Hoes need love too 😭😭😭

Come back Lola

Bruce Pennington

Mitsuo Katsui

Happy with how this one turned out

More in my old style, using material from an old project

Not sure what I’ll do with these. Just keeping them together until things make sense.

Made a bunch of collages today

@LeProjetSerret @CSandbatch Yes I meant the bakhtin book on Rabelais

@doberes @CSandbatch ofc I’d like to read Bakhtin’s book on Rabelais, but I’m booked for like the next decade.

He's right. Dostoyevsky is a young man's bag.

@LeProjetSerret @CSandbatch Did you read the Rabelais book? Curious about it.

@CSandbatch You read Dostoevsky in high school, then Bahktin in college.

Moebius

Yoshitaka Amano

Bruce Pennington

@ArgonGruber @KhalDraco4 @Casey_Evans_ Yeah I suppose there are people like you that lack self awareness and bump around until you stop breaking things. Sounds difficult - like training a dog not to jump on specific couches and not couches in general.

@doberes @KhalDraco4 @Casey_Evans_ Basically, I learn that thru trial & error. I do something that looks an awful lot like normal science. I change, as best I can, 1 variable at a time. Try & try & try until he quits, I fire him, or he improves & ceases being problematic.

Brother is quoting a book called 'Meditations' to say that Marcus Aurelius didn't self reflect lmao

Shoulda woulda coulda. Actually forgive someone. Actually forgive yourself. What are you working with and against? Are all your ties to the world so metaphysically elevated that you experience no significant pain, fear, or frustration and you can dispense with sincere forgiveness on demand? That you’ve never inflicted pain upon others and changed your ways? And you’ve always been this way?

@doberes @KhalDraco4 @Casey_Evans_ The metaphysics internality & externality seem irrelevant to how we humans ought to behave. What forgiveness *is* (something internal or external) seems irrelevant to whether I ought to forgive my trespassers.

Let’s take out morality - take firing an underperforming employee. You might have a temperament to let it slide because you don’t want hurt them. But you learn over time that the right thing to do may be to let that person go. How do you “learn” that wisdom? How do you course correct without identifying that you may be the problem? What is that process? This is a basic form of business “self awareness” that is universally considered valuable. Are you saying every lesson can be taught and our predispositions never produce blind spots that we need to overcome?

@doberes @KhalDraco4 @Casey_Evans_ The distinction between good & evil is hard, too! Many acts that hurt people are morally good & some morally bad acts are approved of & sought by people. The distinction between insides & outsides is tricky! Dreadfully tricky!

@ArgonGruber @KhalDraco4 @Casey_Evans_ Do we spend more time using our minds to manage problems that can be resolved through some external logic? Maybe? Consider intent, faith, moral courage, redemption, forgiveness - the externalities of these things are secondary.

Apply this thinking to a moral dilemma, changing a pattern of behavior, or giving a sincere apology after some hurtful act - what are the materials for determining right action? In what way do you commit yourself to right action going forward? For any commitment, do you have to say words outloud to yourself and then you have to remember the time you said those words to keep your promises? Or say you want to share your wisdom with someone - how do you find the good, how do you manage finding the right way to deliver the wisdom to someone with different experiences? You are reducing introspection to some intentionless knowing which is an easy path to saying it’s similar or overlaps with extrospection.