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Pretty is pretension? Deep Dictionary Disambiguation

Pretty is a prevarication aimed to increase one’s prestige?

A pretty face is a pretentious face?

Pretty is pretension?

Beauty is.

PRETTY (Source:OED Concise dic.)

1. attractive in a delicate way without being truly beautiful.

2. used ironically to express displeasure.

– fairly

– trinket

– (used condescendingly) an attractive person.

*so, pretty is not a compliment… huh.

see also: pretext ; pretense/pretence ; pretend ; pretension ; pretentious ; prevaricate ; prima facie

Consider the convergence of these three words with one another.

Still Life With Woodpecker. Tom Robbins. 1980

America is full of metaphysical outlaws.

Inessential insanities get one in trouble with oneself.

Essential insanities get one in trouble with others.

It’s always preferable to be in trouble with others.

In fact, it may be essential.

Tunnelvision is a disease in which perception is restricted by ignorance and distorted by vested interests. Tunnelvision is caused by an optic fungus that multiplies when the brain is less energetic than the ego.

Equality is not in regarding things similarly.

Equality is regarding things differently.

People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve.

Watch “James Brown – Get on the Good Foot” on YouTube

Get on the good on the good foot.

Dancing on the good foot.

Unh!

Watch “All I Want – Joni Mitchell (original)” on YouTube

“Wanna get up and jive; wreck my stockings in some jukebox dive.”

Great first track for an album.

Ma’Kheru: The Word of Truth (from The I Ching)

Ma’Kheru (or Maat).

The superior man abides in his room.

If his words are well spoken, he meets with assent at a distance of more than a thousand miles. How much more then from near by!

If the superior man abides in his room and his words are not well spoken, he meets with contradiction at a distance of more than a thousand miles. How much more then from near by!

Words go forth from one’s own person and exert their influence on men… Must one not, then, be cautious? –

The I Ching 15

Goethe Quotes

He who possesses science and art also has religion; but he who possesses neither of those two, let him have religion.

The Devil himself names as his adversary, not what is holy and good, but Nature’s power to create, to multiply life – that is Eros.

The One and the Many,  Isaiah Berlin 2007

One belief, more than any other, is responsible for the slaughter of individuals on the alters of the great historical ideals – the belief that somewhere, in the past or future, in divine revelation or in the mind of the individual thinker, in pronouncements of history or science or in a simple heart, there is a final solution.

If, as l believe, the ends of men are many and not all of them are in principle compatible with each other, than possibility of conflict can never wholly be eliminated from either personal or social human life.

Choosing between absolute claims is the inescapable characteristic of thre human condition.

 

 

Center homo sapien (free write)

Effie, the homo sapien, happened into the role of organic lynchpin in the clockwork garden of Jack’s dad. She, alongside innumerable others before, have and will be the particle held in the center of the spherical orbit of all the little human particles in existence; like a pin passed through the end of an axle to keep a wheel in position. Neither Effie nor the others were inherently special, chosen, or different; it was because they were there at the right place and the right time. Any particle could have ended up in the center, but only one particle would.

Now, once you are in the center, you are committed for a long-haul—there is no stopping the ride historically. If the particle in the center ceases to be in the center, acting as a pin holding wheel to axle, then the orbit of all the particles has been altered because the center has not held.

Imagine the universe as a dreidel. Upon being spun, it initially maintains near-perfect, balanced rotation about its axis; but, as the rotational velocity decreases, the dreidel starts spinning a little looser and then a little looser, climaxing in a great wallowing that quickly resolves itself to stillness.

So if Effie kept center, the world would keep turning; the universe keep expanding then contracting. Easy breezy style.

That a special spatial situation existed in the universe was not altogether unknown, but was kept quite hush hush. About 95% of all human particles were unawares of any such phenomenon like the one above described. Making the particulars public, it was assumed, would spawn terrorist attacks, chemical warfare, cronyism, and all other manners of manipulation that were intent upon bumping the human lynchpin out of the middle. No one wanted to take the lynchpin’s spot but acted on account of (a) they could not understand the impersonal, non-special truth that no one is ‘picked’ to be the center, no one is unworthy, or (b) they just wanted to tear the world up.

Knowledge of the esoteric variety may be seemingly spurious or craven, but appearance is not always indicative of insides. The special knowledge certain occult-ish groups harbor is not superficial at all. The problem was that most practitioners had no idea how to apply this knowledge to their benefit, let alone how to use this knowledge without it being at the expense of an unaffiliated innocent. The power of those ancient precepts could no longer be fathomed for homo sapiens had forgotten what power is.

Power is the ability to redirect external phenomena at will: that is, to be the more forceful of two objects colliding in order that you continue on in your initial direction, while re-routing the direction of the other object away from its initial vector.

This and nothing less or more is power.

Nothing more than this exists.

Since the lynchpin homo sapien, Effie, is itself no different in composition from all other homo sapien particles, it could, theoretically, be subject to the force of a hypothetical juggernaut particle that delivers a blow of such momentum and force that it rips her from the center.

Lucid: a fuzzy word (disambiguation with 3 dics.)

LUCID broadly reduces to the three senses below. The Latin roots of ‘lucid’ signify: bright/shine/light.

1: mentally sane;

2: clear; easy to understand

3: giving forth light; shining; bright; luminous

(lucid dreaming is only given as a subsense in 1 dic.)

LUCIFER (the entry immedately following ‘lucid’ in all dics.) The correspondence is ‘light’ and/or ‘shining.’

Latin roots = light bringing/light bearing

1: morning star = the planet Venus when it rises in the morning

2: Satan; Prince of Darkness; Devil

3: match for striking a light

(Luciferous = emitting light)

UNLUCID = especially unintelligent, obscure

Lucidity relates to a clearness, soundness, even transparent, but these meanings are created by virtue of “light shining in.”

In ‘unlucid’, I presume there is a lack of light, perhaps this is “the darkness that obscures.”

LUCIFER is allegorical device meant to elucidate some estoteric or hermetic principle?

Love and Do What Thou Will. St. Augustine

Every man and every woman is a star.

Every number is infinite; there is no difference.

In the sphere I am everywhere the center, as she, the circumference, is nowhere found.

I am the axle of the wheel, and the cube in the circle.

Casey Adams shared an answer on Quora with you

What word is the most fun to say out loud? by Casey Adams https://www.quora.com/What-word-is-the-most-fun-to-say-out-loud/answer/Casey-Adams-78?ch=99&share=19459b08&srid=CWTwk