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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvover 4 years ago

There’s a spectrum from obvious cliché to incomprehensible gibberish and all the magic is in the turbulent sweet spot in the middle

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvover 4 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

sometimes simple truths have to be restated in fresh language to brush off the thick dust of familiarity and reveal the godly sheen underneath

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvover 4 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

but if you assert “we’ve got it, we’ve got the perfect conceptualization of the absolute truth”, you will attract True Believers who chant it mindlessly, and quickly the heavy fog of familiarity descends upon everyone and you have to abscond into the wilderness to see again

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvover 4 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

it helps to have a sense of humor about this entire enterprise it’s all tracings in the sand we are all tracings in the sand

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvover 4 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

just occurred to me that you can approach the sweet spot by pursuing it in a pincer manoeuvre from both sides: immerse yourself in your favourite clichés + simultaneously spout the most intensely incomprehensible gibberish you can muster https://t.co/qhWFXoeKmy

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvover 4 years ago

There’s a spectrum from obvious cliché to incomprehensible gibberish and all the magic is in the turbulent sweet spot in the middle

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvover 4 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

out beyond ideas of cliches and gibberish there is a field ... where I lovingly plant all my fucks behold my field of fucks for it is bountiful and joyous

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Scott Hansen@Lithrosover 4 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

@visakanv ok here goesyou can imagine your progress in any given career as a ladderbut each rung is a tree & the branches overlap as you climb, growing stronger togetherand all your friends grow their own tree ladders beside you in an infinite network of mutual support soaring upward

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvover 2 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

https://t.co/l53Bri8BfM

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Rudra Dakini@the_wilderlessover 2 years ago

https://t.co/MocL6HCmYS

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvover 2 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

https://t.co/a6AyTt1RHA

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Malcolm Ocean 🏴‍☠️@Malcolm_Oceanalmost 4 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

@visakanv ayyy lmao

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvalmost 4 years ago
Replying to @Malcolm_Ocean

@Malcolm_Ocean https://t.co/pkNx3Xm3Iw

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvalmost 5 years ago

https://t.co/kk8WiyRGpj

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Malcolm Ocean 🏴‍☠️@Malcolm_Oceanalmost 4 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

@visakanv allow me to introduce you to this brilliant song by Canadian poets Barenaked Ladies https://t.co/s0MBwx2J9n

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvalmost 4 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

^ https://t.co/cLpQFclk3N

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvalmost 4 years ago

this is the heart of philosophy, all else is commentary 🧐 https://t.co/7uu4B9YhpH

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