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It is what it is.
Less than 4 days have passed since I put a big ass dragon on my arm. The dragon itself is a variation on the concept known as the Leviathan. Why did I choose this art? Because it describes my views on power wellโฆ when it is all going right it is below the surfaces gliding…
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Rand knows dominance…
A recent email discussion on Fetlife brought up this quotation againโฆ "I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine" – John Galt from Atlas Shrugged, page 676 by Ayn Rand I have discussed it…
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In Social Media, your only 6 links away from an idiot.
The other day the comment system here at core / dump let me know that there was a new comment on an old, old post. It was my old pal โMaster Esoโ who must have been out there Googling himself or something. Anyway, he dropped a note just to let me know that in all…
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Freedom is good. No really, I mean it.
I just posted this on a fetish website where the usual panicked discussions were going on about censoring discussion of certain fetishes. Predictably, while not one of the fetishes in question involved child molestation it showed up as the scary monster under the bed as it always does when someone wants you to back down…
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The Shaping of Human Tools: Part 5: The Importance of Consistency
Welcome to part 5 of this series. If you are looking for a way back to the beginning you can go to the Introduction which has a table of contents or just to the the previous section. The value of consistency in punishment is one that comes up fairly often in its own right. So…
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The Shaping of Human Tools: Part 4: Punishment and Reward
Welcome to part 4 of this series. If you are looking for a way back to the beginning you can go to the Introduction which has a table of contents or just to the the previous section. Punishment is simply the negative consequence of a response. In that sense it does not necessarily have a…
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The Shaping of Human Tools: Part 3: How people respond and act
Welcome to part 3 of this series. If you are looking for a way back to the beginning you can go to the Introduction which has a table of contents or just to the the previous section. While the internals of the human mind are still beyond our complete understanding several factors have combined to…
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The Shaping of Human Tools: Part 2: The Debate
Welcome to part 3 of this series. If you are looking for a way back to the beginning you can go to the Introduction which has a table of contents or just to the the previous section . In this section we will examine the debate within the BDSM community on the topic of whether…
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The Shaping of Human Tools: Part 1: Introduction
A long time ago I wrote the first drafts of this essay. I was recently cleaning it up in order to post a link to it somewhere and I was no longer happy with the basic structure of the presentation. It felt a bit stilted to me. This is the first major re-write in more…