Darling, Yes, Step into the Pavilion of Mirrors
Darling, Yes, Step into the Pavilion of Mirrors
And if you do change some aspects to what extent do they become you, and to what extent are they always a deception or delusion? To what extent do we assume that people are deceptive, not being true, acting, conning us, pulling the wool over our eyes, shitting us? And how does this affect our abilities to help them, or let them help us, or for us to work in proper collaboration or to our mutual benefit? Epistemological presuppositions are deep, and often unstated, beliefs that form the foundation of a particular system of knowledge.
that this is how they look from my end. We stand @ the boundaries of world which is visceral and very real, like a bordello screw, and virtual and vague like a Vit-v [Viagra] penis armed with Internet discussion thread data on place, price and quality.
………. *** Speaking with Winslow Wong sometimes I wonder if we are always hiding not just something but from something? Is it possible to hide from oneself, the self? Is it possible to hide from the implications of one’s actions, the proverbial karma? Humans fill to the brim with tendencies and desires. Can other people pick up on this, others outside our thoughts and our skins? This captures poignantly in the ‘blindfolded men touching an elephant and trying to figure out what it is’ metaphor. There is limit to our personal knowledge, and by implication, our worldviews suggests that we narrow in our views and POVs by reality tunnels. This is a book, one of many, that is strictly about how white male/Asian female romance impulsions are. It is unique in
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Throw in corruption, cultures who try and work out what it is you want to hear when a straight factual yes/no will do and the inner lies men and women, professionally and in their spare time tell to themselves. When they start to believe or can’t distinguish their manufactured propaganda and public personas (from the raw material of Graffiti of the mind) from their private and true selves. Examples, a blunt yet effective experiment of perusing through dating services will invariably bring up men who seek Asian females-more so than any other race. I don’t mean to imply that people of any culture should not try to learn from or approach other cultures @ all. And no matter how all this sounds, I don’t condemn individuals for their sexual proclivities. I sit around in restaurants and read while waiting for them to make their move. But I do mean to question popular trends and motives as I perceive them and they affect me. Not Asian-American, though. For reasons I’ve struggled to understand for years, it seems that men who want Asian women are purists — only women from the old country will do. There's no denying
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