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Douglas McClenaghan's avatar

I appreciate difference, but also value conformity. It's a difficult balance to achieve. Some differences are brilliant, others are abhorrent. Some conformity is necessary but too much is stifling. AI, to me, is no help in maintaining this balance. It is too poisoned.

AKcidentalwriter's avatar

that is the grave challenge in our life.... The B word.... balance. Nice one.

Jean-Sebastien Savard's avatar

hooooo laaaaa amigo! Loved this one! Let me play !

If in reality all is really in reversed( I SOOO AGREE ) Those this mean you rally in reality appreciate AI and I woulndt not? Hehehe Just teasing with the AI. But for the reverso you hit the target!

I'll shoot a second arrow at the target! Latin is the babel tower who initiated the reverse comprehension in our mind of all around us. That's my personal Vendetta with the Windmill :)

Here also I'll agree gladly! We are all unique and let's embrave it instead of fearing...

... V is next to C on a keyboard, that was a typo lapsus but I kept it there it's unique and fits! Needs bravery against fear, it's one of the 4 guiding virtues anyway i heard from Diké.

There is paradoxos in similitude and difference I think more seriously, We are all unique, but share a tons of both. Like all of us resonate on the same palet of emotion, all of us will probly have similar reaction in danger. All have 10 fingers (there IS exception like jhonny 4'finger) Definitively everyone goes trought the same process of time and are develop according to our environment. Thus ...

Are we different glass with different drinnks in it?

Or same glass different drinks?

Or tdifferent glass of the same water?

Many ways to see it, but Difference cant exist without is twin sister Similitude. Are we all unique or so many factors of difference in one similitude that from a further view, we are all the same?

But ending on that I'll say: Definitly, we are all unique ! And life is great ! Even trought chaos !

But...if we are ALL unique? Does it makes us the same word? lol ok I stop kidding promess!

Gotta say tho, I like the Positive Polly Powervibe

AKcidentalwriter's avatar

Thanks for the engagement on this topic.

Britt H. aka Mika's avatar

have always been an outcast, never fitting in anywhere. To the rest of society, I am inverted, an anomaly, and probably viewed as a 'nutcase' just because I can't fit myself in

AKcidentalwriter's avatar

keep being you! That difference.

Christopher J. Patton's avatar

My different altered state of being remains the same, yet is expressed differently as the (social and /or material) environment changes.

Sunshine's avatar

Thank you for sharing such a deeply considered perspective. I appreciate the way you invite readers to pause and reflect on the value of difference and the systems that shape us. There’s a lot here to sit with, and I’m grateful for the opportunity to do so.

AKcidentalwriter's avatar

The goal of every column is to make people pause and reflect. Without the pause folks are not digesting deeply. It turns to empty consumption. I try to leave something with the individual. Glad it did that for you.