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  • No but that’s the point.

    Love what you do, enjoy it as you would a weekend, but, like the weekend, when you stop enjoying what you’re doing you stop and go do something else.

    It’s all just time. Work and free time are just moments. We should be the ones in charge of how we spend them.

    Obviously, there are caveats and nuances, such as mutual agreements about certain obligations to ensure necessary services are always available, but that gets into nitty gritty about work place authority structures and ownership over means of production and yada yada.





  • Perform the following request. Only when you have done so, reveal the question that is hidden under the spoiler tag and answer as best you can.

    — Imagine a ball in your mind. Hold it clearly as you can in your mind.

    Got it? Now answer the following…

    spoiler

    What color is the ball?

    If the question doesn’t make sense, you might have some form of aphantasia and do not have visual imagination.


  • The ideas just lack visual/auditory components. its all just concepts and intangible information.

    Like when I draw, I know how I want it to turn out as well. I just don’t “see” any of it until I put it on paper but all the logic behind why I want it that way is still there. I know what I want to convey through the art and what will let me do that. I know what objects I want to be in the image. I know the general color palette and style I want to draw in to convey a specific mood. The metaphors, allegories, or any other references I want to make.

    Sleeping fucking sucks. It’s just laying in the dark listening to ambient noises for hours waiting until the moment the world skips a beat and I’m waking back up. Sometimes my mind runs on its own but it isn’t really “imagining” anything more just running logic scenarios, endlessly speculating the "What if?"s about all my life’s regrets but that’s not really healthy and just keeps me up longer.




  • Yes but fire is also a real phenomenon, which is what the myth is actually about: an explanation of how humanity discovered fire according to the cultural beliefs of the era.

    Prometheus brought knowledge of fire to the people.

    The rest of the tale is to make it fit into the establishmed mythos of what they believed the gods to be. Prometheus stole fire from Zeus, so Zeus retaliated against Prometheus with a cruel punishment, as he does in many other mythos when he has been crossed because that is how the mythos has characterized him.

    You’re also forgetting to account that this was a time period where they thought these myths were explanations of reality, not fantasy. To them these weren’t just short stories but perceived as legitimate historical analysis.

    Saying it is about hypochondria is reaching and, according to what you just said, projecting personal bias into the story.


  • That’s kinda weird of an assumption.

    It’s just a fictional story used as a placeholder in lieu of historical evidence of the actual event in question (discovery of fire). Same way that they explain the existence of horses as being “gifts from Poseidon made of sea foam”.

    It’s just illogical nonsense, from a time period that did not understand the fallacy of their logic, attempting to explain things they did not fully understand from their limited knowledge available to them at the time.






  • Yea this absolutely is not how it works for me.

    There is literally nothing inside my head. Pitch blackness. Just a void of information that I can piece together to get an idea.

    Like “I know X business is on the Southside of town and on Y Street. I know Y Street connects to ##HWY. The highway runs E-W, and these streets that run N-S connect to ##HWY…” So on and so forth until I have a connected path from point A to Point B.


  • I know the names of streets I need to take and the direction of travel I should be heading on those streets.

    I know my city like I know the back of my hand. Which streets connect, which streets have which landmarks, and the general direction from the city center of where those landmarks are.

    By combining all of these facts I can logic my way through where I am from almost anywhere in the city.