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Existence. sorry for being so boring but thats the most basic explanation

Tada!

“Jorge Luis Borges - Fictions” has some outright mystical/non-dual adjacent stories like the Library of Babel, Circular Ruins and Aleph “Italo Calvino- Invisible Cities” is a metafictional work about how everyone views one city through many different perspectives, and the prose is delicious and great for becoming still and mindful if you dont rush it.

Semantic Fields Semantic fields are the way words are related to one another, like how cow is related to barn, grass, moo, milk. Staying within the semantic field of what you are writing about creates cohesion. Straying too far can create dissonance, gibberish or humor, however if done carefully it can create salience, intrigue, and interest. Full cohesion: "The policeman stepped out, took the suspect out of the police car, un-cuffed him and brought him into custody" Semi-Cohesion with subtle category jumps "The policeman stepped out, took the suspect out of the police car, a pigeon shat on his shoulder, the suspect laughed as he brought him into custody" Pure Absurdism "The policeman stepped out in his red clown shoes, took the gorilla out of the police car, a pigeon shook his head in a nearby tree disapprovingly, the gorilla grunted as he was brought into custody."

In this journal I will share what I have learned and what I am learning about creative writing, I am not an author, I write poetry and music, but I do love deconstructing writing and prose. Hopefully you can learn something too, or maybe I can learn something from you, feel free to comment all you want, no restrictions.

Direct Metaphors and Hyperbole 1.A direct metaphor is a metaphor where the object or state fully embodies the metaphor: "I am a rotten log travelling down a river" - "The traffic is a trainwreck today" 2. Hyperbole is a metaphor where the common is exaggerated to enormous proportions "I am drowning in an ocean of tears" - "It looks like theres been an earthquake in your room"

Metaphors vs Similes A common misconception 1. A simile describes something by using the characteristics of what it describes "he was barking like a dog" - "he ran faster than an antelope" 2. A metaphor describes something by replacing it with something else, for dramatic effect "my heart was made of stone" - "the sun was a melting peach" Metaphors are important and so commonplace because of the confines of literalism, take for example sadness, the word is so vague and overused that it means very little, metaphors allow us to personalise language to where it becomes deeper and more nuanced, and the only way to do this without confusing others is to use words in a particular fashion that they already understand instead of inventing new ones which is a hassle. (Sorry for the run-on-sentence.)

Since language is associative and not fixed, it means that any symbol/signifier can in particular contexts change its meaning from literal to figurative. What do I mean by this? Say for example I say the word "tree", if youre from LA you may get a palm tree in your mind, if youre from Germany perhaps a birch tree. Now if I say "my family tree is huge" all of a sudden a leap has to be made to understand that I'm not talking a literal tree anymore but a figurative tree, family lineage. This is figurative language, where all metaphors come from and atleast half of human language. Common metaphors most of us use without realizing they are metaphors: "My heart is broken" - "Stop wasting time" - "I was frozen with fear" - "He's full of shit"

All words without exception contain vowels and consonants, there are words without consonants, for example "I", but words without vowels are more rare, words like "shh", "hmm" zzz" which are onomatopoeia (words that mimic real life sounds). Since every word has a start and finish it exists in time, since it exists in time it becomes an event, this event we call a syllable, the word "dog" for example happens as a single utterance where O is the most prominent to our ears. However certain words have more syllables because they have more vowels, example below. Tea - monosyllabic (1) Dra-gon - disyllabic (2) Me-lo-dy - (3) Te-le-vi-sion - (4)

A sentence is a collection of words in a specific order, this collection of words is meant to create an association in the subjects mind, "can you get me a coffee?" can-you-get-me-a-coffee When a sentence has a cohesive structure we say it has syntax, when its not we call it broken syntax, however broken syntax can be used for aesthetic effect but we will get into that later. To create syntax we have to use one of the three building blocks of language; noun, adjective and verb, other things like prepositions and conjunctions can come into play too. Hopefully I dont have to explain what the three building blocks are as you have all been to elementary school so I will stop here.

"In the beginning was the word" A word is an appearance in consciousness, a distinction, it can be both audible or visual. A word is whats called a signifier, its an abstraction, a symbol that points to something in reality, but it is not the thing in itself. A word creates an association in the mind of the subject, if the word has no association for the subject or is not understood it is in that moment gibberish or noise, pure phenomena. Before we go further this is the most important to note for creative writing as it will save you alot of trouble, all words, sentences and passages create subjective associations, they are personal, it is utterly impossible to convey "the" truth to someone through words, therefore it is better to focus on expressing yourself how you like rather than getting stuck trying to find the perfect words, there are no perfect words. Example: if I say George Bush the likelyhood of us having the same image in our mind is very small, and even if we do its still your image and I have no way to access it.

Just found it fascinating, Im studying it now and alot of the talk about looking at things from different perspectives and mixing ideas from psychology, economics and historical context into a pot of gumbo seems very holistic to me. Any of you studied it professionally? What do you think?

Leo... 1. Claims hes more awake than anyone ever in history despite this being impossible to know except through his own narcissistic inference. 2. Claims everyone else is delusional. 3. Constantly keeps you on the hook with new subjects which keeps you stuck and make you feel like you wont enough as a person if you stop following him. "You havent even begun to grow!" "Go deeper!" "That was a taste, now do 25000 trips more" 4. Says you shouldnt make it about him then makes it all about him. "Im so awake!" 5. Uses non-dual gaslighting everytime you criticize something he does, notice he almost never holds himself accountable when you question him, he always knows more than you! Its almost like he is omniscient! Weird huh! What happened to humblessness, letting go of ego? Perhaps some Shadow Work is necessary? Its almost like how forgot how to be a decent human living in the relative world. This thread will get locked obviously. Criticism is not allowed here. But this is my personal view and you can disagree or not. I dont care. Im not coming back after this relevation. Im thankful for the 1000s of ideas I learned from Actualized although half of them arent really new and borrowed from other thinkers but it was nice to have them collected on one channel although it went downhill somewhere around 2019 when it all became about how God he was and how delusional everyone else was. My self-reflection alarm bell feelings have been ringing for about a year now about this and I have had enough. I have been too nice because I myself grew up with a narcissist and was too forgiving so I can see how I have been too forgiving here and been stuck in a blindspot. Of course the response here will be "Im not awake enough, Im imagining this and that" typical narcissist gaslightning answer to make you invalidate your own feelings. Bye.

I thought we could have a thread where we share anecdotal evidence to counter the fearmongering about the Covid-19 vaccine. I took my first dose 2 weeks ago (Moderna) and had no side effects at all except for some sleepiness after the shot, but that couldve been because of anything. I have 4 brothers that have all taken the vaccine and havent had any serious side effects. What about you guys? Please be truthful in your post and dont troll.

Because I havent done that before and it is a good way to conquer social anxiety. Funnily enough I hadnt stepped inside until someone chatted ME up! Which blew my mind, I thought I would have a hard time just sitting alone at the bar maybe chatting up the bartender but the opposite happened. The last funny thing was I basically got laid but I was too drunk to get it up so we just laid around and talked lmao! We had good chemistry! Im very happy that I took the daring choice of going out alone. Wont be my last time. (No commenting on the alcohol please, its part of my culture and social matrix and it is very difficult to not drink in social situations.) My point is basically; Stop caring what your scaredy little mind tells you! Just do it! Try stuff! The worst that can happen is you hang around for 5 minutes and then go home, noone knows who you are and noone cares, the worlds eyes are not on you!

Deep stuff right here!

Yeah, for a while I guess, I still like posting.

Well another thing is Moda made me a bit wired, not the best thing for a calming meditation.

Its disrespectful towards the arrangers of the retreat, they have tenets you must follow

Well, the attraction kind of happened spontaneously, I wasnt actually planning on getting laid, I was planning on having a good time. So I dont know what I did because I wasnt thinking about that. The point of the post was to encourage people to go out despite their fears of embarrasment, not a step-by-step pickup artist post. I have absolutely nothing to gain by lying, nobody knows who I am on here anyways, I could be Obama for all you guys know. I just wanted to share something fun that happened to me and maybe inspire others.

But I wouldnt have been "lucky" if I hadnt gone there in the first place which was a conscious choice!

Huh?

Lol what more do you want to know?

I dont like clubs normally so I would never choose to go to them alone. The vibe is usually too rowdy and the music too loud. Havent missed them at all during the pandemic tbh. And what does that tell you?