Notes - portals / statistically unsound /

         Early mid-morning. Such a quiet house without the children and grandchildren in it as they were off to the Paik’s in Dublin, Ohio last night for a wedding of a friend of Kim’s this evening. You ran an errand to On the Rise for several treats to share with Dave and Marsha later this morning.

         You and Doug read the following article yesterday and it has heightened intrigue in the realms of science. Add:

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NASA Science News

Hidden Portals in Earth’s Magnetic Field

June 29, 2012: A favorite theme of science fiction is "the portal"--an extraordinary opening in space or time that connects travelers to distant realms.  A good portal is a shortcut, a guide, a door into the unknown. If only they actually existed....

It turns out that they do, sort of, and a NASA-funded researcher at the University of Iowa has figured out how to find them. "We call them X-points or electron diffusion regions," explains plasma physicist Jack Scudder of the University of Iowa. "They're places where the magnetic field of Earth connects to the magnetic field of the Sun, creating an uninterrupted path leading from our own planet to the sun's atmosphere 93 million miles away."

Observations by NASA's THEMIS spacecraft and Europe's Cluster probes suggest that these magnetic portals open and close dozens of times each day.  They're typically located a few tens of thousands of kilometers from Earth where the geomagnetic field meets the onrushing solar wind. Most portals are small and short-lived; others are yawning, vast, and sustained. Tons of energetic particles can flow through the openings, heating Earth's upper atmosphere, sparking geomagnetic storms, and igniting bright polar auroras.
NASA is planning a mission called "MMS," short for Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission, due to launch in 2014, to study the phenomenon. Bristling with energetic particle detectors and magnetic sensors, the four spacecraft of MMS will spread out in Earth's magnetosphere and surround the portals to observe how they work.
Just one problem:  Finding them.  Magnetic portals are invisible, unstable, and elusive.  They open and close without warning "and there are no signposts to guide us in," notes Scudder.

Actually, there are signposts, and Scudder has found them.
Portals form via the process of magnetic reconnection. Mingling lines of magnetic force from the sun and Earth criss-cross and join to create the openings. "X-points" are where the criss-cross takes place. The sudden joining of magnetic fields can propel jets of charged particles from the X-point, creating an "electron diffusion region."

To learn how to pinpoint these events, Scudder looked at data from a space probe that orbited Earth more than 10 years ago.
"In the late 1990s, NASA's Polar spacecraft spent years in Earth's magnetosphere," explains Scudder, "and it encountered many X-points during its mission."
Because Polar carried sensors similar to those of MMS, Scudder decided to see how an X-point looked to Polar. "Using Polar data, we have found five simple combinations of magnetic field and energetic particle measurements that tell us when we've come across an X-point or an electron diffusion region. A single spacecraft, properly instrumented, can make these measurements."
This means that single member of the MMS constellation using the diagnostics can find a portal and alert other members of the constellation. Mission planners long thought that MMS might have to spend a year or so learning to find portals before it could study them. Scudder's work short cuts the process, allowing MMS to get to work without delay. It's a shortcut worthy of the best portals of fiction, only this time the portals are real. And with the new "signposts" we know how to find them. The work of Scudder and colleagues is described in complete detail in the June 1 issue of the Physical Review Letters.

From: NASA News

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         As your physics friend Doug said in a note to you last night, “Wonder what we can use these [portals] for?” – Amorella

         This sounds awkward, Amorella. Doug was a friend long before he was a physicist.

         You correcting my grammar, boy? – Amorella

         I probably miss-translated your comment.

         No. You did not. – Amorella

         Well, I don’t know then.

         You felt an obligation to add [portals] to Doug’s words for clarity. I added “physics” to friends also for clarity, as his writing tone in “Wonder what we can use these for?” was from a physicist’s perspective. Do you think the “we” was in reference to just you and him? What use would you have for the portals other than already used imagination of science fiction writers? – Amorella.

         I wouldn’t have any imaginary use for portals, like you say, since it has already been done. I concede. Your explanation is better than mine. Doug was my friend first.

         That seems more than likely as you are not a physicist friend you are a friend who enjoys science just as Doug does. – Amorella

         It is a good thing you are not an alien Amorella. I would not be the one to be a translator.

         I agree. You would not be a good translator as you obviously have enough trouble with the language yourself. – Amorella

         Ironic, huh, since I was a teacher of English for thirty-seven years.

         You were statistically unsound as a teacher of English. Post. - Amorella

Notes - (raw thoughts) / Metaphysical Lesson Summaries: 1,2,3,4 /

         0834 hours. Up earlier. Awoke at 0610 and typed some notes in the realization this material posting in the last week works parallel with the next scene in chapter eight. Here are the notes edited for clarity:

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         The next scene [scene ten] – Merlyn with Sophia and Panagiotakis – “How long is Takis’s beard?” asks Sophia of Merlyn – Merlyn looks calculates with 21^st century knowledge [of 6inches per year times 40 = 20 feet]. An intuitive flash: cat and a hairball: half a cat living and half a cat dead – [Schrodinger’s cat] – Merlyn’s in the 21^st century and the 8^th century BC in the moment – Merlyn unintentionally sets the motion [of the Rebellion] in Meaning not in Purpose. This appears a ‘trick’ by the Supervisor and misinterpreted by Merlyn, Sophia and Takis. It appears an accidental ruse set in innocence by the all-including Supervisor.

         Merlyn’s mind races ahead on politics and intrigue – forgetting the heartansoul – thus an example of a Meaning in life misinterpreted as Fate. No star-crossed lovers. Innocence personified(?).

         This is seen as a crossed purpose – an ever so slightly ruse by the Supervisor’s Supervisor (Zeus) – a Guardian of Balance (Artemis) between the physical and metaphysical [as Merlyn is partially in the 21^st century mind-wise (Apollo –prophecy)]

         The half a cat Living coughs up a hairball from half a cat Dead. Point: Does this scene end in a statement or a question [left up to the reader].

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         I must have felt I had to find a use for all this material that is otherwise basically worthless [in my mind] as far as the books are concerned. It appears to me these notes can be worked up as the next scene in chapter eight. Plus, I already have earlier notes from when I finished scene nine.

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Notes [from earlier posting] to next scene:

In my deepest inner self, under those circumstances, I would have to say before an angel or G---D, “I really do not know.” As such, under these conditions, I can honestly say, “I think I am mostly fiction. In fact, the more I think into it the more unsure I am of my total conscious/unconscious reality, therefore I feel I may be even more fiction than not.”

You think you would say this to G---D or to an Angel of G---D?

I do.  I’m POed enough to say it now.

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Perhaps we can use this in book four, The Rebellion. A lead character rebels not against G---D but against what sheorhe considers a false truth about herorhis sense of self. The character has no place to go except to others of the Dead who feel and understand that their predicament or circumstance is that it is seemingly impossible to define one’s sense of self accurately.

It is impossible in life, and impossible in death also. Therefore, says this new leader of the Dead, let us go back into the world of the living so that we the Dead may better find the truth of our circumstances so that we might share this with our children, the Living. What do you think, orndorff?

In my present anger it sounds reasonable. I will have to give the concept more thought.

Good enough. Keep in mind that the fictional "rebellion" (ironically) would be an authentic part of your own seemingly deeper nature.

Such humor, Amorella. I smile at it and even want to laugh out loud. There indeed may be some autobiographical truth in this new fiction after all. Who would have thought? I may be honestly framed in a fiction yet unwritten.

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         I don’t remember when these above blog notes were posted. Anyway, this is where I am (in scene ten; chapter eight).

         As usual, orndorff, you have no idea. Post. - Amorella

        Later, on Facebook you posted:

“Fate, and whether it is possible that Fate and Accident identical; that Fate and Accident are a sense of a 'natural' innocence under the guise of Meaning (in life), that life's Purposes are basically contrived by us Homo-sapiens. [Is this useful in upcoming scene 10?] . . .”

And, your old friend and former Mason colleague, Chuck K., replied:  

“What is Fate other than the expectations of our explanations of Accidents?”

To which you added, “Why isn’t this in the dictionary?” - Amorella

         This is a return to the general fiction we have conjured up about our species in the universe at large. This is an example of where I feel that if one takes the point of view of heartansoulanmind as a separate entity of non-physical selves one might find a perspective that while not ‘reality’ as such, at least another view (from our humanity only) of ‘reality’. It would seem to be easier I think to be ‘detached’ from our mortal frame. At least our view of physics may be altered to give us (with a reasonable imagination) a deeper dimensional view of what we are. That’s my premise here in any case.

         Are you not already doing this between the lines in the books and the blog? – Amorella

         I don’t know. Unconsciously or semi-consciously perhaps. My mind has a diverse geometric framework within and though I like to focus I cannot focus on everything in the books and blogs and thoughts at the same time. Heartansoulanmind is a cognitive spiritual-like energy, like an ionized-like gas or an ionized plasma-cloud, in function when not in the form of specifically fine tuned lens for better detecting ‘reality’ at its basic core. Is this unreasonable as an alterable premise for books, blog and centered humanity? I would rather try to ‘show’ or demonstrate this ‘deeper dimensional sense of reality than try to explain it to myself (which I can’t do). I feel there are demonstrations (of this reality of Meaning) readily available in the books and blogs. But how to pick them out is beyond me.

         It is always better to know what is going on in your head at the moment (if a nugget appears) it won’t show up until after it is demonstrated and you cannot know the ‘nugget’ without having a focus by which to discover it. You cannot focus and demonstrate a reality of Meaning (in humanity’s life and physical death) at the same time. – Post, boy, and take a break. - Amorella

            This afternoon you have worked up the first four lesson summaries. Add and post. - Amorella

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Lesson One

         Metaphysics used here describes the workings of the internal spiritual center of humanity I call the heartansoulanmind.

         These lessons are specifically for Richard and these summaries are edited for clarity and for sharing online. – Amorella

         Using the image of a three-leaf clover as an example, the short narrow stem is consciousness. Each leaf represents the following: the human heart; the soul; and the human mind. Keep in mind the higher consciousness that stimulates the philosophical concepts of heart and soul and mind need not be in the physical form of the species Homo sapiens.

          A usable off world alien-like image is in the genus Taraxacum, the dandelion seed. Imagine, if you will, each common dandelion seed having a higher human-like consciousness. This consciousness then stimulates notions of a self-identity that contain a spiritual-like (metaphysical) heart and soul and mind that is further nurtured in a psychological environment that promotes a sense of championing a world with both freedom and dignity. This internal discernment of basic moral values focuses to continually balance both individual freedom with a general social sense of dignity and decorum for all, thus the species better survives and matures through a life in our physical world of sun, moon, earth, air, fire and water.       

 

           I don’t know what a dandelion seed would consider more important than being physically efficient.

          Metaphysics is equally worthy of thought and consideration. The DandelionSeed begins white fluff over a speck of black-night. It drifts cloud-like, settles to root for survival in the earth where water-touched it matures green stalked with a solid yellow top mimicking the sun to which it rises before returning broken; white-clouded awaiting the scatter of change and eventual transformation into a multitude of new roots.

          The whole of nature moves and permits DandelionSeed to scatter, stalk, flower and seed to scatter once again, a unique selection drifting and maturing within the common whole encapsulated in a small dark shell of metaphysics.

          This concludes lesson one. What does a human being consider more important than being physically efficient?

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Lesson Two

         I discovered that you have used analogies before and I do not have them documented in any kind of order as far as heartansoulanmind are concerned. What should I do here?

         Let’s begin fresh as this ‘unit’ is from a broader perspective which may be used in the books (which is what the earlier note materials are about). You need to have a foundation beginning with heartansoulanmind from the perspective of an outsider such as the alien AC.

        Drop in “Higher Consciousness” from Wikipedia Offline, that will do here. I will do the adapting and editing – non-denominational; this definition is philosophical in spirit and without a specific religious affiliation. - Amorella

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Higher Consciousness . . . refers to spiritual awareness or knowledge. Evolution in this sense is not that which occurs by natural selection over generations of human reproduction but evolution brought about by the application of spiritual knowledge to the conduct of human life, and of mental proficiency brought about by spiritual practices. Through the application of such knowledge to practical self-management, the awakening and development of faculties dormant in the ordinary human being is achieved. These faculties are aroused by and developed in conjunction with certain virtues such as lucidity, patience, kindness, truthfulness, humility, and forgiveness towards one's fellow man – qualities without which, according to the traditional teachings, higher consciousness is not possible.

[The above paragraph is edited and adapted from Wikipedia Offline for use as a general definition of higher consciousness in relationship to Amorella’s systematic metaphysical concept: heartansoulanmind.]

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         I find this adapted definition from Wikipedia acceptable for my personal use and feel better employing it as a systematic building block to Amorella’s metaphysical heartansoulanmind concept.

         This is a personal internal working study, orndorff, and it may be amended.  – Amorella

         Your comment directly above strikes me as a weakness.

         This is because you want something written in stone even though you [humans] are not so nearly hard written [wired] yourselves. From my perspective the closest thing to such a styled stone writing is your name on a gravestone. Capiche? This ends Lesson Two. Post. - Amorella

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Lesson Three

         I have never written “capiche” before in my life. Certainly never in any notes or postings. It boggles my mind sometimes, but that is the last word that popped out. And, I had no idea Lesson Two was over. I ‘heard’ the “Capiche?” in my head – sounded like it came from an old gangster movie or even an old “Seinfeld” episode.

         Amorella’s comment about a possible amendment to the definition of Higher Consciousness still sounds like a weakness, like she is unsure, or worse, it is me internally unconsciously hedging my bet. That’s what I was thinking – ‘I am making this up as I go along and I am hedging my bets,’ that is exactly what made me write it down. It was “me” being the weakness, not Amorella.

         And that is what you didn’t get at the time; the anger was misdirected towards me and therefore it was false in context. – Amorella

         How do I correct this oversight, this misdirected anger at the moment it happens, Amorella?

         You are leaning towards false pride, boy, towards being better, towards being ‘more’ perfect. – Amorella

         Self-punishment is learned just as punishment for or out of guilt is learned. It is instilled by many traditional cultural sources with initial good intentions. You need to realize the cultural chains that imprison your humanity. - Amorella 

         The soul is not imprisoned, is it?

         “Imprisonment” is not a word in the soul’s figurative vocabulary. – Amorella

        I am not a philosopher. I am like a fellow who is talking about jumping into the deep end of the pool without his having the tiniest bit of knowledge of what water is.

         What you say is indeed true, boy, you have no real idea what a soul is; you only know in part what other people say it is or what it is not.

         How does the soul ‘see’ the human heart?

         Let’s end Lesson Three by rephrasing the question: How does the soul exist?

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Lesson Four

        “How does the soul exist?” - Amorella

         Last night I came to the conclusion that the esoteric material on the “soul” in Wikipedia is like a discussion of what the telephone is. What the telephone is, is not nearly so important as to how human beings use the telephone. I have no idea how the soul exists?

         I need definitions first. Is the soul immortal? I assume the ‘soul’ is a part of each ‘higher conscious species’ no matter what world or universe the individual exists in.

         Let’s use the following dictionary definition:

The soul is “the spiritual or immaterial part of a human being [or an extraterrestrial species], regarded as immortal.”

(Oxford-American software)

         The soul is immortal. The heart and mind are not immortal.

         Your reasoning is sound. – Amorella

         Can any material substance be immortal?

         No. It is a rule. – Amorella

         Does the soul exist in spite of its immortal nature?

         Yes. Beings may exist spiritually in spite of their physical nature and their free will; so it is reasonable for this to be turned about in the metaphysical world. – Amorella

         As souls are immortal, did they pre-existed before physical creatures of higher consciousness?

         This is reasonable. – Amorella

         We physical creatures with an added spiritual existence are then quite humbled by this acquisition.         

         Awkward question, boy, but this is also reasonable for consideration. – Amorella

         In summary, the soul is immortal and has a primary Meaning (reason for being) beyond holding and keeping safe the heartanmind of a physically dead individual of higher consciousness.

         Yes. How then does this soul exist? – Amorella

         My first response is, “By the will of G---D?”

         It is in my nature to be direct when the responses are innocent and sincerely appropriate in context. This metaphysical system like a physical universe does not need G---D directly and in context it is best to avoid the Manner of the human concept of G---D.  This metaphysical system (of spiritual humanity/heartansoulanmind) is constructed for human clarification, thus the system works somewhat analogously to the workings of the presently known physical universe for better human understanding. This concludes Lesson Four. – Amorella

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Notes - the mind as separate from heartansoul /

         Your mind is presently on politics because of the Supreme Court public decision made earlier today. As a quick lesson in the metaphysics of heartansoulanmind, this is something you can easily consciously feel, a separation of mind from heartansoul. The elevation is pitched and rushed in the sense of power and the intrigue that goes with it. Presently Carol is watching MSNBC while Brennan is sleeping. Note how the future tense is so much a part of the mind at work. The mind must focus on the future because the brain is generally working on the present and the possible spontaneity of immediate survival instincts.

         As Carol has an errand for you to run, post. – Amorella

         

Notes - no comment / Biblical Allusions /

         Late afternoon. Another busy day with Brennan but another hour picnic in the park also as Brennan was again soundly asleep in the back seat. Paul is home early, Carol is feeding Brennan and the B-man now has his stand in jumper-in-prep-for-walker out for the first time.

         Yesterday afternoon I ‘dictated’ three paragraphs that you promptly erased. Why did you do this? – Amorella

         I was angry but I don’t know what about. No doubt I was ‘lecturing’ (being didactic). I really don’t remember the theme other than upon rereading I felt it was improper.

         And, you promised yourself not to be angry at particular modern cultural human behaviors in this blog? – Amorella

         Yes.

         Why, when you know it is a promise you cannot keep if you are going to continue to be honest? – Amorella

         I don’t know.

         I was angry also; however I was speaking for myself. – Amorella

         I don’t want to remember what it was about, and I don’t. Besides, being sincere (in anger or otherwise) is not necessarily relevant to heartansoulanmind. The satire in my books is supposed to show my anger. However, Swift was much better at satire and his works still hold true for me in today’s world. So, if people wonder what my satire is about without reading my books sheorhe can read a far, far better writer, Jonathan Swift instead, particularly his essay, “A Modest Proposal”. Read that first, and then make your choice as to what other work you would like to read.

         You sound as if you are making a class assignment. – Amorella

         I do, don’t I. I am thinking about the classroom, the many former students, as my old comrade at Escola Graduada de Sao Paulo (1970-1972), Tito Balducci, tagged me an old photo or two of me from his album on Facebook. Former students and friends have ‘liked’ and made ‘comments’. I placed a ‘like’ on many comments later and stated that my ‘like’ meant, in most cases, a ‘modest and polite’ thank you. I had a different look at twenty-eight than I do at sixty-nine.

         Post the photo as you have had your beard forty years now. That’s a pretty good record. – Amorella

         That’s what the paragraphs were about – Biblical allusions and Original Sin and Adam and Eve and the like.

         Just place the photo of the forty-year old unshaven though trimmed beard hanging from your chin then post. - Amorella

 Escola Graduada: 1972

        As you cannot come up with a comment, title this 'no comment'. - Amorella

         You created your own supper this evening, a bowl of heated wieners and baked beans. Everyone else had leftovers. You want to set up a discussion here about yesterday to clear the air, so to speak; however by doing so you will bring up a subject you do not wish to address. – Amorella

         True.

         You see a lesson in this, do you not? – Amorella

         Thinking clearly takes more concentration than it appears. It is little wonder than people, such as myself, prefer not to be caught in such a circumstance.

         What are you thinking? – Amorella

         I am thinking that being dead in the books is not much different. Clear thinking is the operative.

         You can’t have a second rebellion without concluding a first. – Amorella

         You were angry over my concern after concluding (the other day) that the concept of Original Sin would not be a part of this fictional rebellion. Your anger appeared to be directed towards those who might think the Merlyn book, The Rebellion, is blasphemous, that is, The Rebellion, is a modern satire of the Biblical story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and Satan’s deception of Eve and Adam. You said something to the effect that this book is in no way connected with the Jewish, Christian or Moslem Holy Scriptures and religions in terms of satire; and that if anyone thinks the book is sheorhe ought to have herorhis head examined. – rho

         I said it better and more forcibly, but the above paragraph is a nutshell version to which I now put my name. – Amorella

         I don’t remember what my subsequent anger was about.

         Your anger is not the subject here. You erased my words without asking permission. You have always asked first. – Amorella

         I erred. I do not understand the importance however. No one could possibly think there are any intended Biblical allusions in the books or notes. How would I ever conjure up such a story and then (in intent) speak this directly to an Angel upon being asked, “And who are you?” I would never knowingly show any disrespect for the human concept of G---D. It is not in my nature.

         Indeed, it is not. Title this section "Biblical Allusions". Post. - Amorella

Notes - conflict of innocence /

         1101 hours. I erased yesterday’s comment on Facebook. I don’t know why I put it up in the first place. I was embarrassed having it hanging there.

         That’s because you put it on FB innocently enough as you wanted to express, to show innocence. The problem today is that you wonder if yesterday’s second paragraph was put up for cross-purposes.

         I don’t think so Amorella. I think it is because it appeared to be ‘your’ note. I should not have you ‘speaking’ on Facebook. It is now a rule.

         I understand your deeper discomfort. However; you placed it on FB innocently enough, and with exuberance. You are thinking the concept of “original sin” is false guilt caused by excessive pride because that is what this experience is for you. – Amorella

         I don’t see the ‘pride’.

         You have me, Amorella, and others do not. You now remember what you did.

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Yesterday, the Class of 1960 picnic at Westerville’s Heritage Park was a refreshing joy for your heartansoul – from seventeen and eighteen year olds to sixty-nine and seventy year old. The eyes, smiles and hugs are still young, some of these contacts going back to being friends and classmates as five year olds (1947) in kindergarten. You learned quite an important inclusion for book four, The Rebellion. “Eyes, smiles, hugs-sometimes-to-embraces show a deep meaning in your humanity, in your heartansoulanmind – it demonstrates meaning, which is an innocence short-changed by the concept of original sin. Meaning and purpose are the theme work of humanity in the book. Purpose, meanwhile, is both productive and counter-productive, and to you this is not original sin either.” This becomes a signature thought in the Rebellion (of the Dead). - Amorella

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This is Amorella. Yesterday, the Class of 1960 picnic at Westerville’s Heritage Park was a refreshing joy for your heartansoul – from seventeen and eighteen year olds to sixty-nine and seventy year old. The eyes, smiles and hugs are still young, some of these contacts going back to being friends and classmates as five year olds (1947) in kindergarten. You learned quite an important inclusion for book four, The Rebellion. “Eyes, smiles, hugs-sometimes-to-embraces show a deep meaning in your humanity, in your heartansoulanmind – it demonstrates meaning, which is an innocence short-changed by the concept of original sin. Meaning and purpose are the theme work of humanity in the book. Purpose, meanwhile, is both productive and counter-productive, and to you this is not original sin either.” This becomes a signature thought in the Rebellion (of the Dead).

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         The intent of the change was that you saw the paragraph was written in the second person ‘you’ and you felt better putting me up front so the reader would realize I, Amorella, was doing the writing. But, also, you placed me first – was it out of pride you did this? No. But, second guessing lead to, ‘it is possible I was being arrogant and prideful’.  Then, who knows? Innocent or secretly (unconsciously) purposefully manipulative to show you have something others do not.

         I still don’t know.

         Thus, out of this discomfort you erased an innocent remark. Post. - Amorella