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The Pudlothon is a thread devoted to all things Pudlo. This is the place where I will post my random thoughts immediately as they occur so that they may be known to the entire IF community without unnecessary delay. That explains the title, but what about the subtitle? For those of you not versed in St John's Gospel, Ecce Jacek is a riff on Pilate bringing Jesus out with his crown of thorns for the Jews to see and saying to them: "Ecce Homo!" Behold the man! I am asking you thus to Behold the Jacek, to see me at my most honest, naked, suffering and vulnerable. I am evidently comparing myself to Christ. Am I a blaspheming clown, or the Real Thing? You be the judge.

>WALK ON WATER
Done.

>RAISE THE DEAD
Done.

>TURN PEPSI INTO COKE
Done.

If you doubt me now, you do so at your own peril.




RANDOM THOUGHT #1

I have a billionaire friend who's terrified of falling in love because he thinks women are attracted not to him but to his money. Apparently he thinks there's an essential 'I' which exists independently of his wealth, which he considers an accidental attribute, a detached garage of the mansion of the Self. But what if women are attracted to his good looks? After all, his looks are just as accidental as his inherited fortune. His intelligence? His charm? Where do the attributes end and the 'I' begin?

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When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

If being a billionaire is ruining his love life, there's a simple solution...

Yeah. Stop worring about love.

Even a poor man attracts women not with his innermost Self, but by accidental attributes, such as good looks or intelligence. So where does the Self begin and is it possible to love an abstract Self?



When you're poor you think if only you had money you'd be happy. When you're rich you're convinced your wealth is making you miserable. The conclusion is that neither love nor wealth can make you happy. It can only make you unhappy in new and hopefully interesting ways.

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When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

Of course not. If this "abstract Self" is unobservable by others, to them it may as well not exist.

There is the perception that personality, your particular quirks, are unique and immutable -- even if accidental. And a woman who loves something you uniquely possess won't stop loving you, unlike the woman who loves you for your wealth or beauty, who could at any time leave you for someone richer or more dashing.

That is the perception. It's false, of course, but fear and insecurity do not need to be rooted in reality to thrive.

Impressive!

M:)rten

Now making people like New Coke, that'd be something.

What, you mean like Soylent Coke?

EDIT - Wow, completely misread your use of the verb "like". Sorry about that.

Soylent Coke is a game I would play.