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joelmael commented on the blog post Late Night: FIRESTORMS of Controversy
Business newspeak: “going forward”
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joelmael commented on the diary post Pull Up a Chair: Space! by demi.
symbols in dreams are often multiply determined, that is, they can combine a number of thoughts and concerns into one symbol or scene. The ‘dream work’ (Freud’s term) is very clever that way. Michigan to me might symbolize, decaying cities, industries, Romney, wild animals(wolverines) a lake, etc etc. but they likely have nothing to do [...]
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joelmael commented on the diary post Pull Up a Chair: Space! by demi.
I was thinking ‘back roads’ might refer to long ago, but perhaps ‘expiration date unknown’ might refer to poop chute concerns.
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joelmael commented on the diary post Pull Up a Chair: Space! by demi.
Think metaphor. Bodies can be symbols for anything dying or dead like an idea or a relationship etc. You give it meaning by letting it bring to mind things on your mind, particularly residue from the previous day.
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joelmael commented on the diary post Pull Up a Chair: Space! by demi.
According to F, dreams condense a lot of stuff into each element of a dream and one of the ways dreams disguise stuff is by hiding the connections between parts, symbols, scenes visuals, etc. Try taking one thing at a time and just free associate to it without trying to find a meaning. Often you [...]
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joelmael commented on the diary post Pull Up a Chair: Space! by demi.
Try writing them down. Sometimes that will make you stop remembering them when you awaken. Also gives you the option of clearing space around you by boring your friends with them.
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joelmael commented on the diary post Pull Up a Chair: Space! by demi.
Freud’s “The interpretation of dreams” was published in 1900. It doesn’t contain as much of the misogyny of his era that found its way into his later theories. The content is mostly his examination of his own dreams. It will stimulate you to play with your own dreams in possibly a rewarding way. Speaking for [...]
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joelmael commented on the diary post Pull Up a Chair: Space! by demi.
Lately I’ve found that after the last trip to the loo instead of dreaming I stay in a half way place between dreaming and awake. I rather enjoy it, sometimes I come to an hour later and don’t know if I actually slept or not.
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joelmael commented on the diary post Pull Up a Chair: Space! by demi.
Me too and at my age I’m happy to be able to keep getting up.
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joelmael commented on the diary post Pull Up a Chair: Space! by demi.
Morning Humbly Demi,
You got me appreciating my house up on sticks on a corner so I see past the neighbors houses. And then there is my fav button, the delete within reach. (not that I need it much here with the pups.)
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joelmael commented on the blog post NSA Whistleblower: Justice Department Covers Up Crimes of Obama, Bush Administrations
Thanks, Kevin. I had been thinking of curtailing my monthly contribution to FDL because I don’t check in as often as I used to, but you have again reminded me how essential it is to support FDL.
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joelmael commented on the diary post Ode to Rupert Murdoch by Synoia.
I am sorry you don’t agree. My hope is that, in the future, you may be more likely to notice gratuitous judgement by appearance.
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joelmael commented on the diary post Ode to Rupert Murdoch by Synoia.
Murdoch is an evil man but his face has nothing to do with it. He is old, if old faces bother you I suggest you either find a way to get over it or remove any mirrors in your house so you don’t have to look at your old face when and if you get [...]
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joelmael commented on the blog post Questioning the Paternalism of Patriarchs
Dunno if this is accurate:
“Full-time religious specialists were absent; however, there were part-time male and female specialists known as keepers of the faith whose primary responsibilities were to arrange and conduct the main religious ceremonies. Keepers of the faith were appointed by matrisib elders and were accorded considerable prestige.” from some Google place.
So if the ‘priests’ were appointed by women then the chicken and egg question arises, which came first, secular power or religious power, or do they arise together.
Seems to me the purpose of most if not all organized religions is to dominate women. Of course they never admit that but you know what they are by their actions.
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joelmael commented on the blog post Come Saturday Morning: Reducing the Ecological Risks
The one percenters love lotteries since they are really a tax on the poor. I recommend a reverse lottery. Give everyone owning 100 million or more a number for each 100 million in assets they own. Put all those numbers in a bingo basket and draw one per month and then take away everything the ‘winner’ owns as a federal tax. That way the incentive, oh those incentives they love, would incentify everyone to make sure they don’t accumulate over 100 million. Problem solved.
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joelmael commented on the diary post Seattle Archbishop Leads the Charge Against Marriage Equality, Women Religious, and Others Who Think by Peterr.
Extra cruelty and blame for females took off in late childhood. Their bodies somehow made them responsible for the sins of lust by the boys. So, much as they wanted to associate with boys they had to be very careful so as not to be ‘an occasion of sin’. It was not only to escape [...]
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joelmael commented on the diary post Seattle Archbishop Leads the Charge Against Marriage Equality, Women Religious, and Others Who Think by Peterr.
I grew up first a child prisoner of the RCC then an adolescent. For a long time I didn’t realize it was a prison and it was even longer that I discovered that the jail door did not actually have a lock on it. And when I finally saw I was free to go it [...]
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joelmael commented on the diary post China, America and The Matrix by cmaukonen.
” (see, 10 Disgusting Examples of Very Young School Children Being Arrested, Handcuffed and Brutalized By Police ) Not even Hitler and Stalin went this far.”
Worse than Hitler? Stalin? This kind of crap is an embarrassment to FDL.
Mods, take a look please.
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joelmael commented on the blog post ACLU, Activists Aim to Prevent Secret Service from Violating Their Rights During NATO Summit
ACLU.org If anyone knows of an organization more critical to the survival of our experiment in democracy today please let us know. Membership is no longer merely a good thing to do. Financial support is also helpful.
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joelmael commented on the blog post Come Saturday Morning: What Is It With Minnesota Republicans and Insulting Their Neighbors?
The irony burns. Real morality, genuine neighborliness, comes only from the left.
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