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"The story of "The Deluge over Norderney" follows the Decameron template of several people from very different cultural/social backgrounds taking refuge during a disaster (this time a flood) and telling stories from either their own lives or from history, they find relevant to the present state of affairs. In other words, this is an anthology of thematically related stories nested WITHIN such an anthology." — Jul 24, 2025 01:10AM
"The story of "The Deluge over Norderney" follows the Decameron template of several people from very different cultural/social backgrounds taking refuge during a disaster (this time a flood) and telling stories from either their own lives or from history, they find relevant to the present state of affairs. In other words, this is an anthology of thematically related stories nested WITHIN such an anthology." — Jul 24, 2025 01:10AM
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"interesting that people in different parts of ancient Egypt had different creation myths each centring the main deity worshipped in their particular city, but people had no problem with any of that" — Oct 05, 2025 10:36PM
"interesting that people in different parts of ancient Egypt had different creation myths each centring the main deity worshipped in their particular city, but people had no problem with any of that" — Oct 05, 2025 10:36PM
“One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem.”
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“The future is up for grabs. It belongs to any and all who will take the risk and accept the responsibility of consciously creating the future they want.”
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“...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.”
― Cosmic Trigger: Die letzten Geheimnisse der Illuminaten oder An den Grenzen des erweiterten Bewusstseins
― Cosmic Trigger: Die letzten Geheimnisse der Illuminaten oder An den Grenzen des erweiterten Bewusstseins
“I don't believe anything, but I have many suspicions.”
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“Everybody, everybody everywhere, has his own movie going, his own scenario, and everybody is acting his movie out like mad, only most people don’t know that is what they’re trapped by, their little script.”
― The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
― The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
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