{"id":1215,"date":"2024-07-09T13:55:34","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T12:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johntownshend.com\/wordpress\/?p=1215"},"modified":"2025-08-25T21:14:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T21:14:49","slug":"the-procedure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/the-procedure\/","title":{"rendered":"the procedure"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">i\u2019m alone, i need some social interaction, but wait, here comes a thought:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201dhumans are the worst. i hope nukes rain down from the skies\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">john! what the fuck was that!?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ok, whatever, use the procedure<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">what emotion was it?<br \/>was it appropriate?<br \/>was it real?<br \/>can you rationalise it?<br \/>does it have bias? if so, can you balance it?<br \/>why did you think that?<br \/>how you resolve it and prevent it happening again?<br \/>how do you feel now?<br \/>are you sure?<br \/>do you need some food\/water?<br \/>do you feel safe? if not, tell someone.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">you\u2019ve done your best. accept it and move on<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">awhhh shit. here comes another thought, this is going to be a long day and i\u2019m already exhausted<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201dpeople are ashamed of me for thinking such nonsense\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">FUCK SAKE!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ok, whatever, use the procedure<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Afterthought, one week later: Do bad thoughts promote and encourage more bad thoughts? Or do good thoughts come from bad thoughts and bad thoughts come from good thoughts &#8211; the same way there is company to be had in solitude and solitude to be had with company<\/p>\r\n<p>either way: there is some good in bad and some bad in good and if we didn\u2019t experience the bad we would never feel the good (but on relative multidimensional scales not just opposites)<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i\u2019m alone, i need some social interaction, but wait, here comes a thought: \u201dhumans are the worst. i hope nukes rain down from the skies\u201d john! what the fuck was that!? ok, whatever, use the procedure what emotion was it?was it appropriate?was it real?can you rationalise it?does it have bias? if so, can you balance &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/the-procedure\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">the procedure<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1215"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2062,"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215\/revisions\/2062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}