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We Create An Image Of Who We Are Inside Our Self. The Image Then Becomes Very Deeply Entrenched, And It Becomes The Thing That We Attribute Responsibility To - We Say "i", "i" Did This Because "i" Wanted To, Because "i" Am A Good Person Or Because "i" Am A Bad Person. The Loop Is The Fact That We Represent Our Selves, Our Desires, Hopes, Dreads And Dreams: It Is The Way In Which We Conceive Of Ourselves, Rather Than The Way We Conceive Of Mount Everest Or Of A Tree. And I Say It Exists Entirely In The Loop: The Self Is An Hallucination Hallucinated By An Hallucination.

For 13 To Be Unlucky Would Require There To Be Some Kind Of Cosmic Intelligence That Counts Things That Humans Count And That Also Makes Certain Things Happen On Certain Dates Or In Certain Places According To Whether The Number 13 'is Involved' Or Not (whatever 'is Involved' Might Mean).

. . . All Meaning Comes From Analogies.

How Gullible Are You? Is Your Gullibility Located In Some "gullibility Center" In Your Brain? Could A Neurosurgeon Reach In And Perform Some Delicate Operation To Lower Your Gullibility, Otherwise Leaving You Alone? If You Believe This, You Are Pretty Gullible, And Should Perhaps Consider Such An Operation.

This Idea That There Is Generality In The Specific Is Of Far-reaching Importance.