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== personal similarity ==
 
== personal similarity ==
  
I made a post to the derelict cypherpunks list right before this about ghost visits. It’s notable because I used to post to the same derelict list about making a spaceship out of tissue paper. I’m planning to edit this comment with my posts.
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I made a post to the derelict cypherpunks list right before this about ghost visits. It’s notable because I used to post to the same derelict list about making a spaceship out of tissue paper. I’m planning to edit this comment with my posts (in progress).
  
 
[https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2023-December/120247.html Thu Dec 7 20:57:06 PST 2023]
 
[https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2023-December/120247.html Thu Dec 7 20:57:06 PST 2023]
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a ghost visits you
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you: “oh! a ghost! are you a spirit of a person who is now dead?”
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the ghost looks sheepish
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ghost: “i am a psychological result of something you went through!”
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the ghost grins, trying to put on a great-looking appearance
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you: “awww frack”
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the ghost stops grinning and looks crestfallen and depressed
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ghost: “i want to repeat something that perturbed you from the thing you
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went through, over and over … would this be okay with you?” [translator may
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have taken liberties with this line]
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you: “oh no that would um be really perterburing! um !!”
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ghost [looking sheepish again]: “um !”
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you and the ghost both put handkerchiefs over your mouths to represent
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politeness or something and you go for a walk down a lane in your town
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called “memory la—
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```
  
 
[[Special:Contributions/172.71.254.32|172.71.254.32]] 21:48, 8 December 2023 (UTC)
 
[[Special:Contributions/172.71.254.32|172.71.254.32]] 21:48, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

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the design is very timeghost-esque 172.71.167.165 21:42, 8 December 2023 (UTC)Bumpf

personal similarity

I made a post to the derelict cypherpunks list right before this about ghost visits. It’s notable because I used to post to the same derelict list about making a spaceship out of tissue paper. I’m planning to edit this comment with my posts (in progress).

Thu Dec 7 20:57:06 PST 2023 ``` 2249

a ghost visits you

you: “oh! a ghost! are you a spirit of a person who is now dead?”

the ghost looks sheepish

ghost: “i am a psychological result of something you went through!”

the ghost grins, trying to put on a great-looking appearance

you: “awww frack”

the ghost stops grinning and looks crestfallen and depressed

ghost: “i want to repeat something that perturbed you from the thing you went through, over and over … would this be okay with you?” [translator may have taken liberties with this line]

you: “oh no that would um be really perterburing! um !!”

ghost [looking sheepish again]: “um !”

you and the ghost both put handkerchiefs over your mouths to represent politeness or something and you go for a walk down a lane in your town called “memory la— ```

172.71.254.32 21:48, 8 December 2023 (UTC)