Testing, testing, only the brave need apply...a Word Salad Addendum

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Testing, testing, only the brave need apply...a Word Salad Addendum
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Funny isn't it?
People  regard _image_ as important.
That tells you more about them, than they will ever realize. Volumes of information can be gleaned from this life perspective.
Libraries, not volumes....

I'm not talking about making the effort to looking hot, so you  score at the weekend, or anything so shallow - I'm talking  _life perspectives_.


But what about the people that don't? (yeah, I'm looking at myself). 

Did you know you that you can't actually  _look_ at two things at the _same time_? 

You might think you can, but you really can't.

If your focus is on your  image, then you are not focusing on your content.

Every millisecond of your life focused on _presenting_ a face to the world, is a millisecond _not_ focusing on the content of you. The message is _you_, the image merely the messenger.
(In media, the message and the messenger can be hard to disseminate.
Difficult, but not impossible, I can assure you).


I've never met a saint. Have you?

I only know sinners (I'm not getting religious, it's  a broad statement of human behavior).

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Do you know any saints?

If not,  then what do you make of the people who present themselves without flaw?
The world salad aggressor is expert in _trying_ to present themselves as such - it, but generally fails- if you  are aware. 
Interestingly, one of the word salad aggressors strategies it tell people they are flawed, without ever divulging _what_ the flaws are. 
(Watch for that one. It can tell you a lot. For starters, it tells you to ask questions, and get that radar spinning for confirmations..).

Being a flawed individual yourself, (as we all are), you only  have two choices.

Judges others and hide your own dark secrets...
(you cannot judge and then _expose_ your own failings - it would make you seem hollow, small, pathetic...).

OR

Live and let live, and be happy exposing yourself -warts, and all- for the rest of the world, to see.

You once you've exposed yourself (metaphorically speaking) you then become _stronger_ than you ever were before.
To quote a line from 'Adam and the ants'
"....ridicule is nothing to be scared of..."


When no one has power over you _because_ everyone else knows who you are, and also know that you're comfortable in your own skin - then you are _truly  free_.

If you have secrets, you have weakness. 
You _are_ weak. You are in chains.
You will never be free.

Do you feel that you  have secrets that are  to be kept hidden from the rest of us. Shame? Guilt? Fear?

It doesn't matter what it is -  it makes you weak, makes you small, it  makes you _hide_.
And from that, it then makes you sneaky, duplicitous, political, disingenuous.....need I go on?

### Fuck that, for a way of  life.

Over the last two years on here, you've seen who I am , warts and all. Intentionally.
Truth counts, if being  real means anything.

Only the truly weak little shits of this world  will _try_ to use  your own past _against you_ in a way to 'win' something. 
What the fuck there is to win is beyond me. 
Credibility?
Hardly. 
It has  quite the opposite effect, over time. If you are playing long.


Don't be weak, it makes you live in fear.
...more than anything, they are _scared_ of who they are. Scared to show the world _who_ they are...

If they were not scared of _who they are_, then why would they not share their 'guilty' secrets?
Judgement? ( we just covered the insanity of that, above).

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...aaaaaaaaand back to word salads.....

Word salads deflect any meaningful 'getting to know' anyone, for precisely that reason.
to avoid reality.
Straight talk, means closer to the real truths. 
_And truths are the mortal enemy of the word salad aggressor_.

It's no coincidence the word salad strategies used by those who choose to implement them, are very closely linked to the psychopath and sociopath/narcissistic personality types and their _modus operandi_. 

After all,  the last thing these personality types _ever want_ - is to be truly _seen_.

It would rob them of their self perceived 'power' that they think they possess.

The weak fucks.

Yeah, so back to the title of the post....

If you haven't been  clever enough to see what I've been doing for  this last 2 years ( intentionally, mostly) then that's on you. It's not my fault. 
(.....and sometimes quite _unintentionally_ I might add - hey I'm _human_,  not an AI. But I don't care!... No contrived public image here.)
Shame and guilt are for pussies, and it's not a misogynistic statement - more about that at the bottom of this post, to illustrate what I mean....

#### _Exposure to the light is the best (only?) way to expunge those most cancerous of those emotional states_.


Even if I can't see _in_ you, your 'oh, so very  hard  worked on   image, and persona',  the very _act_ of image construction tells people so much.
You broadcast   _more about yourself_  than you will  ever _know_, ...just by doing it - Scary, uh?

...and  if you have the correct receiver, to be able listen to what's being  broadcast...Ouch!


Here is a very simple example of what being weak can mean, and the ripple effects.

......You're sat at a table having a romantic meal with your significant other. Hell, lets say it's valentines  day - or your anniversary even - to throw the cat among the pigeons...

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You are looking into each others eyes, totally in love, when, in the corner of your eye - you see the most beautiful vision of a person, that  you have ever seen, come into view (whatever that is to you, it doesn't matter).

You significant other asks "What are you thinking, right now"

Are you ready to be seen for who you are, or are you gonna be weak?

.....My reply in that very specific setting?

 'God...I wanna do her'.

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#### OHHHH!...more cats, more pigeons....

Guys - if you think you've gotten away with it, when thinking something similar and asnwering dishonestly - You haven't, you idiots. 
But _you have_  told your other half that you're too weak to be strong....

And Girls!!!.... Guys always think things like this, _all the time_....Lying is weak.

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