Filling in your fractures with gold
  • frank
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    This is a Japanese thing: fixing broken pottery with gold. Some people would even break their dishes on purpose to have this treatment done so they could bring the beauty of the failed, fractured, but enduring into their homes.

    The pure, unbroken cup has it own beauty, but in a human, this appearance of innocence is likely wishful thinking, or a lie. Instead of hiding the breaks behind a facade, this aesthetic says: bring it out into the light and see that your fractures are your uniqueness. You're something that has never been and will never be again once you're gone.
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  • Shawn
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    ↪frank


    I can see the relation to your profile avatar. Yet, we are never idealized in terms of being broken goods. Only monsters say that.
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  • frank
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    ↪Posty McPostface
    Idealized? The cups are in use.

    I am a monster, btw.
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  • Shawn
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    Idealized? The cups are in use.

    I am a monster, btw.     — frank

    I meant to say that presenting humans as imperfect goods or broken goods is a strange and warped POV. I'm not sure if you're professing that here.

    People learn, grow, and change. That we can be broken down and rebuilt is the fantasy of would-be dictators and such folk.
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  • frank
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    ↪Posty McPostface
    Ok.
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  • unenlightened
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    The Judao-Christian tradition...
    ... is a strange and warped POV. — Posty McPostface
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  • Shawn
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    The Judao-Christian tradition... — unenlightened

    Oh heavens. Not that. We don't need any more martyrdom.
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  • praxis
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    There’s a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in — Leonard Cohen
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  • Hanover
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    Some broken things can't be fixed, like Humpty Dumpty.
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  • Shawn
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    ↪Hanover


    And have your whole identity based on a single defect? No thanks,
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  • frank
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    There’s a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in — Leonard Cohen

    :heart:
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  • frank
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    Some broken things can't be fixed, like Humpty Dumpty. — Hanover

    They brought in a bunch of horses to fix a broken egg.
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  • Hanover
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    ↪frank
    Well all the king's men tried too.
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  • frank
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    ↪Hanover
    Most of Humpty was stuck in the horse's hooves at that point.
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  • Hanover
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    ↪frank
    The Humpty Dumpty lyrics don't actually indicate he's an egg. I think the rhyme really refers to a man who took too great a risk and could not recover from his failure dispite assistance from the most powerful.
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  • Hanover
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    And have your whole identity based on a single defect? No thanks, — Posty McPostface

    An understandable reply based on my prior callous comments, but here not warranted. Humpty didn't have a single defect. He fell and fucked himself up from here to Sunday, not even his royal highness being able to patch his ass up.
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  • Nancy38
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    Very nice! I love precious metals. I recently decided to purchase a 10oz silver bar and have thoroughly research the market for expensive metals. I decided to opt for the 10oz silver bar because I think this is a good investment.
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