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   simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 20-Sep-2024 12:15:56 JST simsa03
   Looking through the characters of novels, movies, songs, theatre, etc., there seems to be a constant duality: The good guys, the persons who become or are "forces for good", are usually those who are willing to undergo changes by the fates (and furies), "the task at hand", the "journey" and its passages, etc. On the other hand, the persons who turn out to be "forces of evil", the bad guys, are most often those who refuse to be changed, who resist, and make a way of appearing as a certain personality from their resistance and opposition. Sticking to one's goals and principles can thus lead astray, as flitting about may indeed be the strongest sign of health, moral development, and responsibility.
   
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     simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 20-Sep-2024 13:03:08 JST simsa03

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     To elaborate a bit on the above.
     
     There are those who insist on staying the same, and feel it important to stay what they always were. And there are those who can just leave things behind, including and in especially themselves. To the former, their τὸ τί ἦν εἶναι needs to stay same, an εἶδος, whereas with the latter their τὸ τί ἦν εἶναι is less an εἶδος but κίνησις, if at all.
     
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     tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 20-Sep-2024 23:51:20 JST tinydoctor

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     @simsa03 A dance of shadows...

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     simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 21-Sep-2024 10:11:37 JST simsa03

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     Have you ever read Michael Ventura's "Shadow Dancing in the USA" (1985)?