Twitter is getting bigger but it is not getting better. Twitter is dying, at least the good part is… When Twitter started out it had a magical force working for it – it was unknown, which puts it right up against magical… Twitter gravitated into intellectual patters of usage – intellectual people started playing around with it…Twitter continued to succumb to the pull of static quality into Social patterns…It was now a just a matter of time before Oprah and her friends appeared… Whenever I make a move in Twitter, the ripples include at least one lonely girl that wants to meet with me… Money is bearing down on Twitter. It is pulling their attention away from improving by demanding “monetization”…. Twitter [is] in a unique position to introduce a change in technology-business.

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The conviction that there is a real you is a result of the fact that you have rallied everything you’ve got around your reason. At this point your reason admits that the nagual is the indescribable, not because the evidence has convinced it, but because it is safe to admit that. Your reason is on safe groud, all the elements of the tonal are on its side … To make reason feel safe is always the task of the teacher.

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An(other) former government minister was sentenced today to 4 years imprisonment … He was(is?) a member of a religious political party who was been swaying with (and been swayed by) Israeli politics for many years… Politicians who bring their spiritual (religious) beliefs and practices into politics are most probably making a (conscious or unconscious) sacrifice. If they are also prominent religious leaders then they are sacrificing not only on their beliefs but also on their entire system of beliefs, and the hearts of the people who subscribe to that system … The torn fabric of Israeli society around religion goes deep, so deep that if you trace it long enough you may find that this dress we wear and call “Israel” is from it’s first days hanging by a barest of threads…maybe it is change? … A classical dictum in the history of states & war was that my enemy’s enemy is a friend. Maybe it’s time for a more mature, and at the risk of contradicting myself, more spiritual dictum?

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When my friend creates a guitar and exchanges it – the exchange is an isolated, complete, beautiful and natural entity. When money is involved, it opens a door for other interests that are foreign to that exchange – a financial abstraction is born and has a life of its own. You can take 10% of $2000, but you can’t take 10% of a guitar. This life is independent of the original exchange or the intents of those involved. This in itself can be a thing of wonder because it enables others to partake in an exchange and enhance it’s total value, but it can also be abused and manipulated.

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