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Shower attention bits intention

 When I shower I feel a deep sense of meditation most likely because there is a continuous flow of attention to each of my movements be it mental kinetic or ruminative in any sense that this whole into a very focus zone due to the hum of the heater or the continuous flow of water trickling. Every bit of intention and energy flows from my mind to each extremity and they simmer and mature with the act of repetition with each scrub with each rotation with each rub of my hands my fingers to the census on my skin to the actions made to clean not just the body but my surroundings my foot squeezing a brush scoring the tiles my other foot pressing down on a squeegee wiping down walls precariously balanced on one leg as my hands are preoccupied with keeping the flow and jet of water centered on the next area I am cleaning not just my body but my mind my headspace and my perturbed soul washing it out with white noise whilst in the act of something productive and repetitious which then causes...
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Klang river feels poetry WASTE DUMPING

Things i swallowed.  Dead Fish foreign to my body. Floating Bottles, broken blades Lots of Blood behind the central marketplace. Bodies. Babies. Chemicals that killed the babies Mattresses  plastic,  plastic waste, refrigerators, lorry tyres, motorcycles, and more mattresses, nails, bolts,  doors, metal doors, wooden doors, spirit doors, spirits. Are you triggered. Did you see? Do you remember dumping that saka? people are triggered because this is something they "see"; how many dumping of saka into rivers we do not see (assuming that this excuse is true from the perspective of the family)? Had they been smarter, they (and many others who believe in the supernatural) would still discard it into a river.  Why not throw it into the rubbish bin, you might ask. Because from a paganist point of view, every river has its own spirit. As this "thing" (seen as a jinn in some cultures, curse in others) is spiritual in nature, a river spirit can isolate and remove it away ...

Aim Shoot Capture Frame . Photography an act of Violence. Susan Sontag

  How many of you have heard the joke about photographers “shooting” and “framing” people? Shooting and framing—these words coil with an excitable vehemence in my mouth whenever I tell the joke, yet I have only recently realized the baggage they carry. A cold, detached, calculated act of violence. Intention. You need to aim before you shoot. When someone points a gun and fires to kill, a living, breathing being filled with potential is reduced to a sack of meat. Point a camera at someone, and you aim to capture an essence you see in your mind. Then you shoot to capture, and all that remains of that particular moment of life is reduced to an object. I also like to think that this is why people in earlier times readily believed legends claiming that taking a photograph meant taking an ornate piece—or even the entirety—of the soul. Photography is frequently described as an act of violence because it is inherently invasive, transforming subjects into objects, and exercising power by ca...

Train of thought

The state of mind in speech is constantly evolving, especially when one’s mental headspace shapes the layer of speech and thought that emerges almost spontaneously. From the perspective of Psycholinguistics, speech is not merely the expression of thought but part of its formation—an ongoing feedback loop where thinking and speaking co-construct one another. At times, I fall into listless speech, as if I am living within a train of thought—struggling to disembark at each station, attempting to make sense of my utterances. It is as though stepping off at each stop might reveal the direction in which the train is heading. Through the lens of Stream of consciousness, this resembles unfiltered cognition, where thoughts unfold continuously without deliberate structuring. This becomes problematic when I have a destination in mind but have not prepared myself—when I have not even checked whether I boarded the correct train. The train, after all, runs on fixed tracks, much like how language cha...

The cleanliness formula

 You can formalize your idea as a simple multi-variable optimization / balance equation that fits nicely into existing frameworks like utility theory or decision theory. --- Define variables Let:  = effort exerted to clean oneself  = internal (subjective/physiological) feeling of cleanliness  = actual (objective) cleanliness level  = perceived cleanliness (social/interpersonal) --- Core idea: maximize “cleanliness utility” You’re essentially describing a trade-off, so we can express it as a utility function: U(E) = w_1 I(E) + w_2 A(E) + w_3 P(E) - w_4 E Where:  are weights (importance of each factor)  are all functions of effort  --- Interpretation Increasing effort generally increases: : you feel cleaner : you are cleaner : others perceive you as cleaner But with diminishing returns, e.g.: I'(E), A'(E), P'(E) > 0 \quad \text{and} \quad I''(E), A''(E), P''(E) < 0 And excessive effort has a cost: time, energy, skin damage, etc. --- Optimal c...