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Essays, lectures & rants โ€” the thoughts of Elaine Barlow.

Essays
Delusions Are Exhausting (Not Me)
Believing lies is willful ignorance and delusion ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™๐™ƒ๐˜ผ๐™ ๐™˜๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™ฉ ๐™ข๐™–๐™ฃ๐™–๐™œ๐™š๐™ข๐™š๐™ฃ๐™ฉ ๐™ค๐™› ๐™ฉ๐™๐™ค๐™จ๐™š ๐™˜๐™ค๐™ก๐™ก๐™ž๐™จ๐™ž๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™จ ๐™ค๐™› ๐™๐™ค๐™ฅ๐™š ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™ง๐™š๐™–๐™ก๐™ž๐™ฉ๐™ฎ ๐™ž๐™จ ๐™ฌ๐™๐™–๐™ฉ ๐™ž๐™จ ๐™š๐™ญ๐™๐™–๐™ช๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™ฅ๐™š๐™ค๐™ฅ๐™ก๐™š. Not me.
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On Selfishly Surviving …
๐™„โ€™๐™ข ๐™ฃ๐™ค๐™ฉ ๐™– ๐™œ๐™ค๐™ค๐™™ ๐™ฅ๐™š๐™ง๐™จ๐™ค๐™ฃ. I donโ€™t do things out of the goodness of my heart. I do them because I selfishly value my own life and sanity over others. I learned SURVIVAL skills because I had no choice.
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TLDR; stop complaining …
Passions do not solve or evolve anything. Passions only maintain and imprison.
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Quote
No one teaches you HOW to THINK. You learn how to PERFORM actions that resemble thoughts but the actual art of thinking - and yes, it is an ART - and the process of understanding your own mind and having control over it โ€ฆ I have only met a HANDFUL of people capable of doing it. People who can use higher order thinking? I have no idea where these people exist.
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Finally Out Of Energy …
It has been nightmarish trying to navigate the world while 99% of the population exists in their own self contained and limited simulations.
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Control Is Key
No matter how strong you are in your logic, your reason, your regulation, you are ALONE in it. No one around you has what you have. Not 99% of the world.
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On Clavicular
Why don't you sit and think about all of the elements of society that brought us to where we are right now and then think about where lack of empathy, understanding, and sympathy has gotten us.
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Your Abusers Are Winning
Demanding that the most vulnerable sacrifice themselves to inconvenience the most insulated and powerful is not strategy ... itโ€™s madness.
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CoSoThoughts
Social Media Has Made You Strange – Part 2
Not being able to accept someone else's lived experience without having a negative reaction or needing to insert yourself into it is a sign of dysfunction.
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