From: vallor@vallor.earth   
      
   At Mon, 17 Nov 2025 13:09:03 -0000 (UTC), oldernow  wrote:   
      
   >    it's not that   
   >  i'm looking down   
   >  on you as though   
   >     you're dumb   
   >   
   >   it's just that   
   >    attempting to   
   >  discuss anything   
   >    with someone   
   >   who hasn't done   
   >  roughly the same   
   > homework on a topic   
   >     is painful   
   >   
   > so i put feelers /   
   >   tests out there   
   >   
   >  which attempt to   
   > help others reveal   
   >  how much homework   
   >    they've done   
      
   Bitten once, twice shy.   
      
   When you speak of "homework", do you mean navel-gazing?  Because   
   my "life coach" (for want of a better term) used to be a Buddhist   
   nun, but then decided that the middle path was better.   
      
   There's no way for you to know that unless I tell you, so I've told   
   you, and won't speak any more about it, except to say that   
   I view everything with skepticism -- including oracle decks, Tarot   
   cards, and all that.  To me, they are "Rorschach's for the mind".   
      
   I have been battered by "coyote Zen", and I'll talk to you about   
   that if you'd like.  But right now I smell the wife cooking   
   onions, so I think dinner is almost ready.   
      
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