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Originally Posted by Jennifer
Xander, if that was the case, there'd be no such thing as art.
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There's such a thing as art? Oh you mean the petrified sheep thing... nah..
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Obviously there are patterns within human experience that can be tapped into and used as shorthand in communication.
(Case closed, to me.)
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As there is in all species. No one tries to make themselves into a goldfish to increase their wisdom.
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I don't know, but it sounds like you don't live within your experiences, you're still keeping them at arm's length.
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Doubtful. I do a bit of both mostly. I don't like to become embroiled but I also don't like getting my ass frozen off cause I'm miles away from the group hug.
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Well, I agree -- I can't afford a perpetual opiate high. 
Consider me talking from the perspective of a lifelong detachment junkie who finally decided to engage and sees the point of it now.
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See I don't understand the position of a detachment junkie so the whole revelation of engaging is lost on me I'm afraid. I suffer no sudden "hit" of emotion. I experience no sudden feeling of oneness... just the same old me with new toys (hopefully).
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It's a rush, hon. 
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Heights are a rush when you have vertigo... that's not a good thing to motivate people with.
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I was terrified for so long to give myself over to it, due to anxiety and loss of control, but I found I enjoyed my life much more when I did. (So it worked for me.)
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I refuse to give up.. that's one thing that is me.. you may have seen that in our time online
I'm not sure about this refusing to move though. I tend to go with the flow so I don't drown trying to stand resolute telling the sea to retreat from my presence but similarly I'm resistant to the whole idea that humans can breathe water... no they can... really. I'm afraid I'm skeptical of that point of view.
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Hmm. Well, that's true. I'm definitely complicated.
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See... a much simpler definition... simply complicated
