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... on awakening, today, had a strange little internal psychodrama as I stumbled outside the house to make my am cuppa of soy-milk, palm tree sugar, coffee, coconut cream, butter, and infant formula for 3+ year-olds ... I was on-stage, playing the role of a pseudo-wise-man in a play which was a tragedy, directed, by mistake, as a comedy. I turned toward an audience of faces blurred out by the foot-lights, and intoned the following aside:
The cheapest profound thoughts are those we borrow from others.
The most expensive profound thoughts are those we refuse to think for ourselves.
The most profound thoughts, that cost us nothing, surround us, but we are too ... And I "hung" there, a wide-eyed rabbit frozen in the glare of onrushing ontological headlights ... waiting for the last words to finish the soliloquy ...
... do you know what needed to be said to complete the last line ?
If you know, are you allowed to tell it to me ?
best, Bill
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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I can only make it with corrections:
The most profound thoughts, that cost us only trust, surround us, but we are too afraid to ask
changed mind on the comma
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interesting, your words remind me of the classic Kabbalistic tradition refrain: "trust nothing, question everything."
given my (and homo saps) innate abilities to persist in various forms of denial, "trust" has many dimensions ? perhaps my reaction to "only trust" ... as diminishing the cost ... reflects the great importance i place in "trust" in this, later, phase of my life.
i wonder if i had said "insights," rather than "thoughts" ... ?
thanks for your thoughts !
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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… superficial to perceive them.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Hi Daniel, interesting to think about what "superficial" is, and its relation to perception ... and sensory input. Perhaps you are familiar with Mack and Rock's "inattentional blindness," Quote: there seems to be no conscious perception without attention
and the famous "invisible gorilla" research [^].
Can you be "both" superficial and "aware" ? superficial and "attentive" ?
Gets complex since "conscious" and "attention" are such multi-faceted terms: [^]Quote: ... Whether perception requires awareness is one of the basic questions that have been discussed for many years in the field of psychology (Eriksen et al., 1960;Holender et al., 1986).Williams (1938)reported that subliminal stimuli are effective at evoking a correct response.Merikle et al. (2001)reviewed research in which awareness was assessed with either objective measures of forced-choice discriminations or measures based on verbalizations of subjective conscious experiences. This group concluded that stimuli are perceived even when observers are unaware of the stimuli. Awareness is synonymous with consciousness
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«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
modified 22-Sep-19 23:46pm.
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Nothing that academic. I was just thinking of Winston Churchill's dictum that "Man will often stumble over the Truth, but he will usually pick himself up, and go right on".
This has at least two meanings. I chose the less cynical (in the modern sense).
As an aside, I am not usually impressed by psychological research. Research psychologists are studying extremely variable and complex phenomena (i. e. human beings), but they purport to draw conclusions from laughably small sample sizes (often less than one hundred). Were abuse of statistics a crime, I suspect that many of them would be behind bars.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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With complete respect for your distrust of a lot of academic psychological research ... a distrust I share ... I think to discard the whole lot is to "throw the baby out with the bath." There is a lot of research "grounded" in the reality of the structure of the brain, and the sense organs, that is evocative, and rigorous. In the last ten years there has been a virtual revolution in neuropsychology.
If "awareness/consciousness" is an "elephant in a dark room blind wise men are feeling up," we are at least getting better approximations of how the elephant behaves, and the outlines of its shape.
cheers, Bill
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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BillWoodruff wrote: do you know what needed to be said to complete the last line ?
No, I don't know...
But what came to me while reading was:BillWoodruff wrote: The most profound thoughts, that cost us nothing, surround us, but we are too ... blind to see them
Edit: I should have read the answers first, I almost repeated Daniel's.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I don't know the words either, and I suspect that at different times, in different contexts, I might choose words that might contradict other words I had chosen.
I'd say what came to you, is just as valid as what might come to me 
William Blake's famous words:Quote: “If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.”
can be read as a (mystical) insight into the paradox that our senses that "bring us" the perception of the world also set the limits of "normal" goal-seeking, purposeful, consciousness, and yet, we are also creatures who constantly imagine realities that are beyond the sensory.
Quote: How do you know but ev'ry Bird that cuts the airy way,
Is an immense world of delight, clos'd by your senses five?
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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TL:DR
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Should express disgust in overtime (5)
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ought
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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ya 
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That would be a good clue in a normal cryptic crossword
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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3650d69abb7f8f2584be41eb68dc1521
Scientiæ de conservata veritate.
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(well, ok, , mostly mac os x bsd )
I'm cleaning up my photo collection and I have tons of duplicate images.
so I fire up the ol' terminal and do
find . -name "-2." -exec rm -rf {} \;
hit enter and hope for the best.
I'd rather be phishing!
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if that doesn't work, try throwing salt over your left shoulder, and enter that again 
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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should'a done that.
my mac dies this morning.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Yes, but my mac died this morning.
I'd rather be phishing!
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The async package wizard thing crashes on my system with E_INVALIDARG
meanwhile, i could make a visual studio extension manually.
but microsoft does not document the VSIX packages very well.
That's neglect. They're violating their own guidelines by effectively making it so a wizard is the only way to do the thing.
This is shameful for such a major MS product. And this isn't a new thing. Documenting VS extensions has been a problem of theirs for as long as I can remember.
However, putting all the settings in a separate registry hive file, and forcing you to use VSIX while it's (somewhat) unstable and (largely) undocumented makes it far worse in recent versions of VS. This is a disservice to everyone who uses their product.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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honey the codewitch wrote: so a wizard is the only way to do the thing
Since a wizard is just a male witch you should be able to pull it off... 
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honey the codewitch wrote: but microsoft does not document the VSIX packages very well.
It should make to he understatement of the year...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Yeah maybe that was too generous of me.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Just proves that nobody likes to write documentation of any description. Even Microsoft.
Another example is creating project templates. Sure, they have a wizard, but that doesn't go nearly far enough.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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