Random post is random.

[capri0mni]

Numbers are an illusion; ordered lists are an even greater illusion. But they're still fun.

1. Today's Thursday, isn't it? For some bizzare reason, for the last six hours, or so, I've been thinking it was Saturday, in half of my brain. The other half knew it wasn't, because otherwise, I'd've posted my first prompt to what_if. So... Isn't it weird that you can hold two completely contradictory bits of "knowledge" at the same time, without totally tripping over your own feet?
   
   That's one reason why I've come to believe that so-called "multiple personality" is actually the default condition, and the singular, unified "I" is a cognitive illusion (akin to an optical illusion, but about how we think the world around us, rather than see it... if that makes any sense). Otherwise, none of us would be able to talk to ourselves.
   
   
2. Speaking of writing prompt comms on DW, the latest DW news update included a Comm Rec-O-Matic, and I found several writers' comms that looked interesting. I joined a couple (dailyprompt and writerstorm), and there are a couple others in my maybe-I'll-join-later pile (fiction_transitions -- for help transforming fanfic into original fics, and parthenon -- a writers' challenge comm built around the idea of dedicating ten individual works [Fiction, art, what-have-you] to one of the nine muses of Classical Greece).
   
   
3. I've been thinking about why it's still considered socially acceptible* in polite society to use ableist language as a slur, or for stand-up comics to make jokes about the disabled on terrestrial television without so much as a batted eyelid from the program's sponsers, or protest groups...
   
   Remember old-time cartoons from Warner Bros. et alia, where a bully character would pick on, or try to beat up, a puny character until the puny character's giant and powerful parant would show up, and threaten the bully, so the bully would back off?
   
   Well, on the whole, disabled people are minorities even within our own families, so we're not viewed as a "demographic" worth taking note of. We don't have a giant and powerful parent/identity to back us up when we're under attack.
   
   I don't know what we're supposed to do about that... that's just what it feels like.
   
   
4. My cat, Trixie, is standing on the back of my chair right now, purring in my ear. ^_^
   
   
5. Random philosophical thought: In general, it's assumed that non-belief in God(s) is tied to non-belief in ghosts, souls and the afterlife. But I don't see why it has to be. I see no absolute, logical, reason why disbelief in one must be connected to disbelief in the other. And maybe someday I'll write a story in a god-less world that is nonetheless full of ghosts.

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*"Politically correct" is a politically loaded (and inaccurate) term.