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Thank you x2 !! He is Don Quixote, the most noble knight of La Mancha. These are the moments before he charges against the giants.

I don't really know, but my general stance is that companies design humans in a way that makes them buy the product.

I have bigger problems in my life. I think people should stick to their own problems instead of these artificial ones.

Looks like any 3rd person shooter game website. Only difference is microtransactions are you.

Many things appear, so I think similar things will occur again someday, like a musical rhythm. It is like old folks carving constellations on stones to mark certain moments they witnessed and cared for, which will happen once more after celestial movements, telling us the story once again. I hope you do not mind my occasional comments.

False beliefs against other family members. Especially if they are doing business together. I think conscious family is a problematic term. Like why would I make babies if I want to create a conscious family, adoptation is way to go. Also things like bloodline requirement and states approval for legitimacy of my family seems very unconscious for me. I mean by nature a family has to be somewhat unconscious, I suppose, but end goal shouldn't be let's all be conscious. I don't know I prefer a healthy family over a conscious one. I am just a single guy tho

Pen and paper for me. I have my own symbolic language, so I can keep up and ask questions etc... My lectures were theoretical, I don't know your context but for back and forth discussions, I find computer unreliable also heavy. My system is not advanced like this but to get the idea this is the core of it.

I’m not a believer in centrally issued currency and taxation. Money is all about change, who gets to change what. It’s a mindset dynamic that rewards those who exploit it the most. Once central currency is eliminated, people can develop a new epistemology to build different structures. I think people need to realize that being a citizen of any nation-state puts them at a disadvantage. This is the reality of our age: we are all living in a country called "Any State."

Life, in a broad sense, always strives for biodiversity, persevering through floods, firestorms, famine, plant diseases, suffocation, changes in oceans and land, ice ages, volcanic eruptions, acid rain, and occasional hurricanes. Thank God we were struck by meteors, so all the extreme abundance came to an end and we left behind the mighty dinosaurs and giant plants. This event put such stress on Earth that nature gave birth to colorful flowers, birds, and mammals. Life returned with far greater biodiversity thanks to the pressure created by each suffering life form. There is no purpose in nature’s work other than to come back with greater magnificence each time. Let us not separate human life, animal life, and plant life from nature because we are part of it. At the same time we can make ourselves different from nature through design, but this comes with tradeoffs like fear, guilt, and shame. Purpose exists because we can separate ourselves from nature. No bird can point to the sunset and share that with its kind because the bird is already the sunset. Making this distinction is enormous, no other animal can come close, yet people talk about substances, but that is another topic. Purpose comes from our separation from nature. I cannot tell you what your purpose is, that is your relationship. It is easy to be the Sun out there, isolated from everything, no kids, no mortgage, free energy, almost no community. It does not work that way for us. What are we the purpose of? We invented language, and here we use the English style. I am going through linguistic, semantic, and grammatical structures while trying to find a common ground for our experiences and at the same time make things beneficial for each other. My answer is: Witness the beauty. Imagine what we will become once we are extinct.

My take is, cells don’t really have a printed identity, they’re just there for function. But humans are the opposite, by nature we don’t have a purpose. In other words, we are the purpose. Don’t follow a purpose, be the purpose.

I don't seek common emotional interests; I prefer free play, just like in real life. I attend a yoga class, and at the end of the session, when the teacher asks if we have something to share, I talk about a mosquito that bit me during all the still poses. She was surprised by my low-IQ but high-EQ question. She said something about our urges during yoga, and about the peace and mindfulness that we carry along the way also the non-violence part, especially avoiding physical violence. She added that maybe, in that moment, I could have simply shooed the mosquito away. I said, "Got it, I’ll kill it next time." Why do I use this forum? Because my internet skills don’t go very far.

The machine neither failed nor succeeded; what’s at play is a collective lack of conciseness.

No I have not, this is their own work.

Thanks, I aggree, now guitar has even more self identity.

I made this one about six months ago. It was just a raw body and neck. I glued them together, then introduced water to the body to raise the wood grain, and fine-sanded it in preparation. I filled the maple grain with thinned black acrylic using a piece of cloth, then sanded the whole thing again. This levels the wood, and you lose the black color on the high spots. That unevenness is the nature of flamed maple. I repeated this three times to make sure the black color settled into all the low spots. After the last sanding, I did the same process with red. This time I repeated it five times, since red was my target color. After that, I used three cans of water-based gloss varnish, which gave me about twelve coats. After each coat, I sanded the surface flat. The finish only shines and reflects if the surface is perfectly level. Once that was done, I took the guitar to my local car detailer. I know the owner, so I talked to the detail guy. He told me, “You might not be able to hold the buffing machine and could burn the guitar.” I said, “Fine, you do what you know, and start from the back side.” He buffed the back for a good two minutes. While he worked, I was calculating the strength of the varnish. Then I told him that was enough — we didn’t need that much detail since the back was open-pore. He said, “You could have told me that.” I replied, “If something bad happened, it was on the back of the guitar, and that wouldn’t be a big deal.” He buffed the front too. The varnish was thick, dry, and durable, so everything went fine except for one small issue: I didn’t know that wood could shrink when you use water to pop the grain. It turns out alcohol is the better choice if you want a pristine final product. This was my most technical painting assignment. Now, six months later, the guitar already has dings and scratches all over it. It turns out a perfect finish is overkill if you’re going to play the thing all night long. Besides, I never really reached a perfect finish anyway, that is real hard and most of the times more expensive than a price of that retail guitar.

I love apples that still have their leaves and little speckles on the skin. Golden delicious?

I have white'ish skin, light hair color and green eyes. So It's hard for me to make contrast with colors like baby blue etc... This is not imposible, but I don't see myself buying extra stuff for getting that light blue to work. Darker colors just works easier on me, for example, I don't even have something orange, it just works better and easy on dark skin. So I just stay away from light blue tones. There is no point for me, this is a personal thing, but I can wear something navy blue all day long. Here I tried to add navy blue belt for more contrast between lighter shades. There is a fine color transition so I think it can stand alone as it is, and I feel comfortable if I look a bit off, which is the most importing thing I suppose.

@Flowerfaeiry I'm grateful you shared your story. The mind often reveals its drama not merely as memory, but as a symbol-laden narrative that crafted to teach. And if we attend to it closely, we find that this drama unfolds within the very structure of our own symbolic relationships, shaped by meaning, not chance.

This year, I haven't used any specific subjects in my paintings; they are all projections, suggestions, or happy accidents from my mind - if those are the right terms. I like the elegance of Dutch painters, the perspective of Cézanne, the bold and striking strokes of Richard Schmid, and alla prima is the way to go for me. Perhaps they don't quite marry up to the path, but I am trying. You are a great critic! Forum is lucky to have your trained eye and personality.

I have mixed feelings for this one. Thanks Natasha, each time I am trying to see what is going on with colors.

I have been painting for 3 years, first one is from two years ago, second one is 3 years ago.

New acrylic painting

I appreciate it.

I am back to painting after awhile. Acrylic on hardboard, took 2 hours.