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Refered by burkean

Hidden bias test

"Your data suggest a slight automatic preference for Gay people."

Hmm. How about that.

Gnostic cosmogenesis continued

The Valentinian teaching described thirty aions at the heart of the cosmos-mind -- what is typically called the Pleroma, or "fullness," of God. Bentley Layton uses the word "entirety." The Pleroma could be imagined as the whole of potentiality, but there is also a sense that it is more of a "totality-generating machine" than the totality itself, like a template or blueprint for all of what could be and could happen.

It is also explicitly stated that the Pleroma exists in stillness and equilibrium, like a perfect crystal. This is its largest contrast with the material creation.

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Because I feel like ranting, that's why.

This whole week I have been editing audio narration files for a CBT. I am good enough at this that, if necessary, I can draw upon my brief experience as a linguistics student and construct a natural-sounding sentence out of words and sometimes even phonemes. Many people use Sound Forge, but I prefer Goldwave for narration editing.

( notes on editing narration, driver's licenses, and funerary arrangements. )