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AlanWatts said:
Because say when a person says, "I see a leaf"
Immediately, one thinks of a spearhead-shaped thing
Outlined in black and filled in with flat green
No leaf looks like that
No leaves, leaves are not green
That's why Lao-Tzu said, "The five colors make a man blind
The five tones make a man deaf"
Because if you can only see five colors, you're blind
And if you can only hear five tones in music, you're deaf
You see, if you force sound into five tones
You force color into five colors, you're blind and deaf
The world of color is infinite, as is the world of sound
And it is only by stopping fixing conceptions on the world of color and sound
That you really begin to hear it and see it
 

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Ignore the game, I love the intro to this video.


I want to see this in a story. Some guy is robbing a grocery store, the apocalypse happens (Zombies or any other kind) and then both the robber and the grocer just decide to go the pragmatic route and work together to deal with the situation.
 
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This is epic. When one man can convince dozens of random strangers all over a department store to make monkey noises on his signal, I'm reminded there's hope for humanity.

 

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Yeah, that story gets mentioned a lot, but I don't really buy it. If you've seen through the enemy's deception, you generally don't want to let them know you have for no reason. And to risk one of your planes in enemy airspace to do so.
Not all victories are measured in square space taken. Think about all the work, counter intelligence and resources the Germans used to make all of that, just for the RAF to drop the equivalent of the sad trombone noise on it.
 
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Not all victories are measured in square space taken. Think about all the work, counter intelligence and resources the Germans used to make all of that, just for the RAF to drop the equivalent of the sad trombone noise on it.
Morale isn't just about people feeling good or bad, but about the will to do what it takes to accomplish the mission. What the RAF did here was really take some wind out of their enemies' sails.
 
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On the one hand, you could argue that letting the enemy know you know what they're up to means that you can't listen in on them I observed any more

On the other hand, the enemy now knows that you know what they're up to, have always known what they're up to, and you don't know where the peak is. The sheer paranoia and distrust would do a fair bit to jam up enemy communications
 
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