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i wish these rude mechanicals told more fart jokes

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Jim Dalling
Jun 02, 2021
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Yesterday we began our tour of the theatre backstage. There we glanced around at some of the things our brain does whether we want it to or not. What we want? Our will? It really doesn’t matter. Today? We’ll look at some of the hidden motors that power the rude mechanicals of our lives.

We are all powered by hidden motives, feelings, impulses, and  information. When we react to someone based on a feeling, like anger or sadness, and it might not actually be the person we're reacting to. Well, if some in this pandemic land happens to step on your toes, any anger is likely justified. And? This persons’s also likely a lovely dumping ground for any of your disowned aggression. Deserving? Probably not. Convenient none the less…

Then there are those people

You know those people

A couple of things about those people that I need to clarifly before I go ahn.

Everybody knows and everybody judges those people.

And?

Most importantly?

Everybody is

those people

to someone else.

But those people? They could …

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