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Estimated delivery Apr Ships to Only United States. Ships to Anywhere in the world. Reward no longer available. Estimated delivery Mar Reward no longer available 50 backers. Estimated delivery Feb Estimated delivery Jan Fox knew Falco was dead. Fox was running now, running towards an empty blackness, the kit's giggling echoing all around him.
Fox ran forever, running through the black abyss that was this hallway, his heart hammering against his chest. Finally, Fox came to a door. It was a plain black door, touch-activated, as some doors were, and for some reason, it glowed. Fox stood in front of the door, panting. Even when he focused both ears on the door and shut his eyes, he heard nothing. None of his senses told him anything was wrong.
Putting his laser away, Fox placed a paw on the door. It dilated, and Fox stepped in. Falco's limp body lay, bleeding, against a wall. The falcon's throat had been torn out. Fox's mouth hung open, and he wanted to scream, but nothing came out. Fox took a step back, and then became aware of another door opposite Falco's lifeless form. It dilated on contact, and Fox saw Falco and Slippy laying in a cage.
Fox could see their stomachs rise and fall, and sighed in relief. They were either sleeping or unconscious. Looking around for Sierra, he found the frog shackled to a wall, blindfolded and gagged. Sierra jerked in response, and Fox rushed over, removing the blindfold and gag. Sierra whimpered, looking past Fox. Fox turned, his paw resting on his blaster. A black, amorphous liquid oozed toward Fox. He took a step back, firing a shot at the ooze, but It seemed unaffected. The thing oozed over Sierra, and Fox had only to glance back to see that she had shared Falco's fate.
Fox looked back ahead, and the kit stood in front of him once again. The ooze flowed into the room, but Fox was rooted to the spot. As It flowed over his feet, Fox felt his body relax, even as his mind was screaming at him to run. It slipped up his body, and Fox felt his mind go numb.
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Something inside him was still screaming, but it was distant an unimportant. The thing engulfed Fox completely, and Fox felt life slipping from him. Fox woke up screaming. Still, I get my repose every time I see the small traces of my work, which are undoubtedly there, somewhere. Not that the effort is not giving, in and of itself. But there is always a slight worry in the back of my mind. The thought that the puzzle is but an ironic display of my own foolishness.
I can enjoy laughing at my own endeavors, no matter how hopeless they may seem, or be. Who is to tell me that it was all for nothing, even if I never solve the puzzle? At least in the way I wanted it to. If there was no sort of solid structure in my way, but I would still be unable to work my way to a result? That scenario is not an impossibility. You see, in this world, there may be someone who is removing the pieces of the puzzle, just as I lay them out.
That is, if there even is such a person. That would be a shame. Even though there may be a lot of room for our puzzles, some of them will eventually cross paths, and one may have to make room for the other, for better or for worse. Is it right of me, to build my puzzle?
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Is one puzzle worth more than the other? I still need more pieces for that. There are always other puzzles, in the greater puzzle, which can be solved. But this puzzle, is one of the ones that currently means the most to me. The puzzle, no matter how much it may seem like it, is not just a game. Many would tell you otherwise, and the thought has crossed my mind, even though it was immediately dismissed.
It is not a game, partly because it is important to me. I cannot build it all alone. Monday, February 15, The Concept of Labels. Let's dig right into it! It would seem as though a lot of boxes had to be checked, in order for this entry in my blog to come into existence; I had to think of what to write about, which already happened several weeks ago; I had to tell a lot of people I would be writing this post and a few had to tell me to write it too ; I had to read OneSketchist's post about his blog's fourth anniversary , and realize that February the 11th would be my own blog's third anniversary, and even so, I am late in writing this.
I have also been sleeping without a schedule, and far too little during several nights. I just finished an anime that I strongly recommend, called " Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso ". I've been listening to podcasts and the like; just lying in bed listening with my eyes closed. And just now, I spent half an hour in the shower, in complete darkness. And after all this and much more has been done, it would seem I am finally ready to write, and thus sacrificing any dreams of sleeping this night, as it's already late, in more sense than one.
So I guess you could say that everything in my life is fairly normal, as it always is. Well, that's not entirely true. I haven't been doing nothing at all, nor nothing out of the ordinary. For example, I've spent several hours this weekend by drawing, which is definitely unusual.
Someone also said something to me a couple of days ago, which gave me a lot of energy. So now, I am going to take a break of half an hour, and finish a debate featuring Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens - among others-, whereafter I'll finally tackle the topic at hand, and try to cover it in quite an amount of detail. And of course, you won't notice that break, as I am now already back from it. But I felt a need to mention it anyway, in order to break the illusion of flow which would've otherwise been created.
Now however, I will get into flow for real. That's an interesting label, don't you think? But even if I could, I'm not actually going to talk about normality, nor our perceptions of it, at least not this time. But instead, of the way I used the word normal intentionally, as it works a perfect segue for the topic. I used it partly as a joke, to make fun of my own procrastination, and other things that seem to constitute some of my habits in general, whether good or bad.
Essentially, I was saying "that's how I've always been, thus it must be right". Now, to some extent, I can see the logic behind that, from an evolutionary standpoint. My lifestyle seems to have been working quite alright for me thus far, which is why it could be logical to assume that it will do so in the future as well. But with a certain amount of extra knowledge, an argument of such nature could easily be debunked. For example, I still currently live at home, with the support of my parents. The second I move away from home, there will be a huge list of new responsibilities laid on my desk.
To add to that list, I can't say that my studies are getting easier.
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To sum it up, I need to accomplish more things, in less time. Taking those facts into consideration, is it really true then that I can keep on going on like I always have, and still manage all those things? Most likely, not to the full extent at least. Now, all that could've been, and has been said by other people, in ways somewhat similar to this: But that is actually not my point!
This post isn't going to primarily focus on me either, but rather, on how we just seem to accept certain things for what they seem to be, when maybe we shouldn't really be that hasty. As I mentioned, I could easily avoid thinking about the implications of my current lifestyle in the future, and give up any hope of improving upon myself in any area, by excusing the intrusion of even the start of that thought with a simple label: What if instead of accepting what I do for what it is without a second thought, I allowed myself to have that thought, and decided to do something about the situation?
Well, quite obviously I have, and I haven't stopped there. Not only am I being productive right now, thus countering my normal procrastination, but I've been mentally digging deeper into the subject of, and causality of labels in general. Because "normal" or "unusual", are far from the only labels we use. Same goes for entire concepts. Let's get into what those two words really are. Concepts and labels can be extremely useful tools, which is why they are so prominent in our languages. They are used to explain, and categorize.
But they can also work as shortcuts, as they once they become known to us, are used to chunk a lot of information into just one word, or one concept, and thus, speeding up any process. So in general, you could say that it is wonderful that we have so many labels, and so many concepts. In fact, more than any person could ever count, because we can create new ones just for ourselves with a single thought. Quite ironically, this blog entry is in itself, discussing a concept, or rather, several different ones.
They are inescapable, as they are building tools for examining reality. Look to your left! What do you see? I'm sure that you could come up with several words to explain what you see. A table, one side of a room, etc. Maybe you could even add an adjective or two to what you see. An "ugly" painting, or a "small" pencil. You are most likely in a room.
A "room" in itself, could be said to be a concept. And if you are outside, "the outside" could be said to be a concept too. You just need to mention any word, and a plethora of associations will enter our minds. And some of the associations could be perceived as neutral, wheras others could be assigned value, or may even already have some sort of positive, or negative value to you.
We are constantly blinded by the limitations of our minds. We cannot be objective well to start with, I don't think that objectivity in its most ultimate form exists. Not that life would be any fun at all if everyone would be objective. Some mathematically inclined people may think that there is a certain beauty to specific kinds of objectivity, and I have no intention of arguing against that, as I can see where these hypotethical albeit, very real people are coming from. But I think - and I hope - that we can all agree that life would be meaningless if absolutely everything was objective.
Or rather, if we perceived it as being that way. We might live in a deterministic universe with only the illusion of free will, but I won't get into that now. But it doesn't really matter, as long as we can sense subjectivity in one sense or another. We all have our subjective experience, and no one can actually know what it's like to be you. They can only imagine it, as a concept. And they might even explain aspects of your existence using labels. She's attractive, he's smart, they are stupid, etc. In one way, it works as a shortcut to relay certain often subjective information about you.
Not necessarily to others, but people might just be thinking those associations in their minds. On the other hand, it "allows" the labeler to move on without digging deeper into what lies behind the label. It is a short thought, that completely cuts away immeasurable quantities of information, and ignores it, focusing on but one aspect. Now again, I see the use of this; in fact, if we didn't use it, the first thought we ever had would take up our entire life, because every single thing can in theory be analyzed for an eternity if not longer. But clearly, as with anything that can be used, it can be misused?
What I want you to be, is aware of how we use labels in our everyday life. Especially for and by ourselves. Labels are often used to avoid critical thinking, and that is where the shortcuts can become damaging. We take things for granted, because we are used to doing so. There's a very apt saying, which in Finnish is written "tapojensa orja", which roughly translates to "Slaves to our Habits".
And that is pretty much what we are. Non-surprisingly, really; it makes sense if we consider anything in existance. We can find clearly distinguishable patterns in most anything, and even in biology things tend to repeat time and time again. I think that our ability to think critically is something we should nurture, and hold very dear to us. That said, I also realize that we need those breaks from critical thinking. I realize that much more than I probably portray in this post.
But if you doubt me, I urge you to go back to the beginning, and read about my habits. They don't seem very critical to me; lying in bed, watching entertainment, procrastinating, etc. In fact, I am a major escapist. But I still do my best to be open minded. I always try to think about even casual things from new angles rather often. Because time and time again, I've noticed things that should've been obvious to me, but simply weren't, because I had never analyzed them in any kind of depth before, whatsoever.
As I mentioned earlier, this inevitably happens to all of us, because there is a limitation to the amount of information we can take in at once, at any given time. This means that we are forced to overlook an abudance of things.
This is the very reason that a word such as "focus" needs to exist in the first place. Of course, the shortcuts that concepts and labels grant us aren't the only things that cause us to ignore critical thinking apparently, it is something we like to do quite a lot, as a species. One of the things in this world that scares me the most, is herd mentality. If we are actively, or even passively taking part in any kind of congregation, we tend to accept things with much less effort, than we would were we alone. This is true for large groups. Take faith for example.
I'm sure I don't even need to explain what I'm referencing here, so I think I'll take myself a little shortcut. As another and even more scary example, we can take political movements such as the national socialists, a. Now, this kind of mob mentality may take on much more innocent forms, and it exists in smaller followings as well.
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Take a group of friends. I bet that most of them will have several "inside jokes" which will only make sense to them and I see as a beautiful thing. Imagine five friends, who are sober except for on Herd mentality , but one of them gets the brilliant idea to walk on the ice during a time at which it is actually dangerously thin. Chances are, no one will object to said masterplan, and they all end up drowning. This is a rather innocent, yet very real scenario that can take place because we abandon our critical thinking.
Chances are that any single individual take note of the particularly subtle Valentine's Day joke wouldn't dare to break the ice, without the push of said friend. Not even that friend would do it of his own accord. You get what I'm saying. Now lets combine the two, and we are like to get hate speech. A large group of people, assigning labels to themselves, as well as to other people. You can see how this phenomenon goes full circle.
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What goes around, comes around, as they say. Which is quite fitting, as we were talking about habits earlier. I don't consider myself to be a very structured person, but even so, my habits are unmistakably clear to me. I try not to associate myself with too many groups either; no particular political party, no religion, and so on.
But I too, am part of many, many groups. Whether I want to or not. And don't get me wrong. Many good things can come from togetherness too; I don't shun it with every bone in by body. But as an extroverted introvert label spotted! A couple of posts ago I talked about Bisexuality. That too is a label, which is probably on the more minor scale one of the reasons as to why I don't necessarily participate in the "coming out" process all too often.
There are many misconceptions and associations that follow such a word, in today's time. And they kind bug me. If there's something I generally dislike, it's being misrepresented whether ill meaned or not. But in this world, human interaction is necessary and healthy , so we have to live with always being misrepresented to differing degrees, as as I mentioned earlier, our subjective experience is unique to ourselves.
Other labels that could fit me, are "pianist", or "weird", both of which I take pride in. Or one of my favorites which only I tend to use, which is that I say I am more or less "always happy". My definition of happiness is probably a bit different than most people's though. But at large, what I mean is that nothing seems to be able to keep me down for long periods of time; I recover from most things quickly without taking much damage. Notice that I mentioned "pride". Let us now switch the weight onto the opposite side of the spectrum, which is "shame".
To be completely honest, I rarely feel shame which is probably both a benefit, as well as a minor character flaw , not because I am a narcissist some people have joked about it, but I really am not , but because I don't tend to measure everyday occurrences on a scale of "shamefulness". What I mean is, I rarely allow that word to hold any important meaning to me.
Shame is, afterall, a subjectve experience. We sometimes hear "you should be ashamed" if for instance someone has offended a person. But that only refers to a general association between an action and a subjective value, which sometimes is tied to herd mentality. A certain group may dislike the use of certain words, leading to a kind of social space where you utter them at your own risk. The people that hold very specific values may feel that what you say is shameful, but is there really any reason you should feel so?
I also know of some darker examples, which manifest in interactions between just two people, where one uses shame as a tool of control over the other, but I don't want to delve into detail regarding that topic, right at this moment. Just be aware that this is a documented, and unfortunately, a relatively common phenomenon.
It can be a priest and a follower of a church, a mother and a child, or two people in a relationship of any kind. I just stripped a large following, into a small group, and into just two people. Now, we get to you, in particular. This is where I wanted to get all along. I aim to tie together habits, labels, and our subjective experience. I've noticed an alarming rise of depressed and anxious people these past years.