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I have a lot of ambivalence about Jordan Peterson but there's a lot to chew over in this:

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it's really useful to investigate the viewpoints of people who have opposing views to yours because they'll tell you things - not only will they tell you things you don't know it'll also tell you how to see the world in ways that you don't see it and they'll also have skills that you don't have

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but agreeable people especially if they're really agreeable, are so agreeable that they often don't even know what they want because they're so accustomed to living for other people, to finding out what other people want and to trying to make them comfortable and so forth that it's harder for them to find a sense of their own desires as they move through life

This one especially is on my mind, as I try and explore if "anhedonia" - not feeling pleasures as sharply as most folks - might be cause rather than an effect of my "group think" and looking to objective corectness through the group.

I used to read a blogger who insisted that "All right, I'll go to Hell," from Huckleberry Finn is the most pure and perfect prayer in the canon of American literature. Meaning, as I understand it, that the decision to do the right thing in the face of eternal damnation is the most holy decision one can make, and if God Himself is not proud of the poor mixed-up kid, then God Himself is not worth much more than a "Get thee behind me," and the rest of us should be lining up to go to Hell too. Worth noting that this person identified as an evangelical Christian, not because he was in line with what current American evangelicals believe, but because "they can change their name, I'm not changing mine."

Ran into a lot of new music in Italy....

FEMALE VOCALIST COVERS:
* Crazy (James Michael Mix) (Alanis Morissette)

SONGS I RAN INTO IN SICILY:
* Scarabocchi (Olly & Juli)
* Tarantella (Gabry Ponte & KEL)
* Via con me (Parma Brass Quintet)
* Jailhouse Rock (Elvis Presley)
* Hot Stuff (Banda Brasileira)
* People Get Up and Drive Your Funky Soul (James Brown)
I'm a little annoyed that James Brown leaves out 3 or 4 signs including Aries.

FEMALE VOCALIST COVERS I RAN INTO IN SICILY:
* Time After Time (Lennon Stella)
* mad world (Au/Ra)
* Killing Me Softly (Melania)
* The scientist (Bea)

OTHER SONGS:

* Takio's Sohran 2 (Takio Ito & TAKiO BAND) - from a group of Japanese exchange students tour
* NAILS (feat. Missy Elliott) (Noga Erez) - from the show Big Mistakes
Wow maybe this new server works.

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