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I'm sure you did well. I'm sure the stories had ample metaphor, foreshadowing and imagery to support your thesis.

Generalizations. Hmmm. Good question. I'm a very black and white moral thinker. I think in yes and no, good and bad, right and wrong. Do and don't do. But, I also obsess over tiny details in every day life and can seldom find the big picture. In my ASD assessment I was extremely weak at synthesis. So, hmm... let's say I get annoyed by other people's generalizations but mine are always valid.

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I'd be more shocked at myself doing a Lindy Hop than the duck, but it would be fun nonetheless

Have you milked a cow?

Thanks Isabella.

No, I haven't.

Same question.

I milked a fake, wooden cow once on a school trip. That probably doesn't count though.

Speaking of school trips, what's the worst one you've experienced?

I was on a field trip when our bus driver got lost and started to curse. It became apparent he was drunk. The teachers made him pull over and we had to wait several hours for another available bus to fetch us.

What was your best trip?

Going to an amusement park.

Same question?

Probably going to a picnic in a scenic area.....and indulging in all manner of barbecued foods.

Same question.

Used to be the hospital, but they don't give you the good drugs anymore.

Same question.

You have lots of Culture in you, Red.....why the hospital?

You have much more Culture than I do. You have lots in that brain of yours.

I hope, one day, to go to Baffin Island and see the ice fields, or see an iceberg.

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Thanks, Kraftie. I have actually been wanting to take my son to France someday.

The only belief I have regarding that do we exist ~ is that I may or may not be using the most appropriate terms or methodologies for describing my experiences in, of and through life ~ as a being existing in a human body. As a child for instance, I used to feel really disturbingly weird that people kept referring to me as if I was my body, which has all the equivalent to me of walking up to someone and saying hello to their dress or their suit, etc.

Coming then to your question as to whether I believe existence is just a cerebral construct, I do not find this to be the case, as I have explored this perspective of things at great length and pedantic detail since about six, and found the notion to be a hypothetical assertion that does not correlate with the facts of the near death experiences, nor the psychological and physiological operations of the mind-body relationship.

Consider for instance that once the heart stops beating, so does breathing and circulation ~ so no energy, no oxygen, no glucose. The cerebellum becomes disorganised and begins to deteriorate as it disintegrates, hence the resuscitation window for a safe recovery being somewhere in or about the region of two and half to four and a half minutes, with brain damage becoming more and more certain as time goes on. By analogy it is like when people cannot get enough oxygen ~ they become more and more addled in their awareness of details and sequential events, and then they pass pass out. NDEs more generally involve though increased ranges of experiential complexity and clarity. As such the cerebral networkings show a lack of experiential development, as compared with the more advanced cerebral networkings that develop after the NDE ~ showing an evolutional leap rather than a generic progression.

Another consideration is overactive imaginations where image projections of the mind filter or mask out the sensory registrations of the body ~ by way of sensory replays featuring old visual experiences that get in the way of people actually seeing what is going on in the present time frame. Traffic accident reports invariably include amongst them that "They just came out of nowhere!" or "I did not see anything until it was too late!" Another example of cannot see for looking was a wife who brought a violently pink bob hairstyle wig, to make the point to her business-head husband that he did not notice her attempts to look attractive for him, but he did not notice even that ~ he was too busy thinking about stocks and shares.

Have you perhaps read the 'Cave Anology' of Socrates ~ in Plato's Republic, as covers your question from another perspective?

No.

Have you ever worn a toga?

In a sense. I wrap a towel around my waist after a shower.

Violin, or piano?

Piano.

Classical music or jazz?

Depends on my mood----but I find classical music more pleasing to the ear.

However, there are times when I find some jazz more "cerebral-evocative" than some classical.


Deciduous trees, or Evergreen trees?

Pine trees ~ evergreen.

Do you hve favourite tree residents or visitors?