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peep
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gerund or present participle:
peeping
look quickly and furtively at something, especially through a narrow opening. “his door was ajar and she couldn't resist peeping in” synonyms: look quickly, cast a brief look, take a secret look, spy, take a sly/stealthy look, sneak a look, peek, have a peek, glance, peer;
come gradually or partially into view. “the sun began to peep out” synonyms: appear (slowly/partly), show, come into view/sight, make an appearance, put in an appearance, present oneself/itself, become visible, emerge, issue, peek, peer out,surface, loom, show one's/its face, come to light, spring up, pop up “the moon peeped through a chink in the clouds”.
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Not Necessarily Stuck
Suffering is inevitable in our human journey. We all experience challenges as we grow up. You learn strategies and develop beliefs that protect you when you are young, but ultimately don’t serve you.
You get conditioned to avoid, rebel, and mold yourself to please others.
And you act out patterns, unconsciously, without recognizing their origin. You might even wear them like a banner, defending your position and denying your need to change. This is the nature of being human, which touches into so much compassion for the tenderness of it all – in ourselves and others.
But here’s the clincher:
Suffering may be inevitable, but being stuck in suffering is not.
It’s miraculous that you can bring your attention into your inner world, question your thoughts and investigate the reality of your feelings, and discover that freedom is here – so close and available.
It’s amazing that it is possible dispel the distorted ideas and the needs and fears that drive you. And it all begins with openness.
Openness breathes fresh air into the stale cave of your conditioned habits.
The Value of Openness
You might be holding onto your habits like a cloak, but openness invites you into the purity of your heart prior to any conditioning. It suggests the possibility of being free of patterns and identities. It paves the way for returning to wholeness.
When you are open, you don’t assume anything to be true. You are innocent, like a baby. Humble and available. You are interested in inner reflection, and you lead from curiosity. You experiment and explore.
You can receive teachings and intelligent advice. You shed ideas and attachments to discover the freedom that lies underneath them.
Opening to Resistance, Too
Openness may be the key to your happiness, but resistance needs to be respected. If you find yourself unwilling and stuck, can you open to that as well?
Be kind and accepting of yourself even when your heels are dug in and you refuse to budge. Let yourself be as you are in your defensiveness without adding another layer of resistance.
Feel what it’s like to be closed to its very core. Be totally stuck without the story of being stuck. Opening to this raw experience is the path back to yourself.
Openness is a virtue, and this virtue will set you free.
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I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness, and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Pew: Nearly One-Third Of Americans Hide Information Online
Almost a third of Americans have taken steps to hide or shield their information online since Edward Snowden publicized National Security Agency surveillance practices.
But as a country, we're deeply divided — nearly 50-50 — over whether to be concerned about massive government surveillance. And while there are signs that privacy is a partisan issue, it's not partisan in the way you might think.
All that is according to the latest privacy study by the Pew Research Center.
Privacy Market Has Grown — To Critical Mass?
Among the Americans who've heard about the NSA revelations (not everyone has — which is a whole other story!), 25 percent say they've changed how they use online technology "a great deal" or "somewhat."
Respondents say things like: "I don't search some things that I might have before" and "Can't joke about stuff that could be taken as a threat."
Sound familiar?
People have changed the privacy settings on their Facebook and Twitter accounts. They've uninstalled mobile apps that are data-moochers. They've used search engines that depart from the norm and do not keep a running tab on every site you visit. And some respondents report taking the dramatic step of talking — face to face, in the physical world — to avoid having a digital trail of communication.
While one-quarter is not the majority, it is eye-grabbing. The Pew study indicates that the niche market for privacy tools may go mainstream. Companies like Wickr and Dstrux offer self-destructing tools for email and social media posts, with the promise of "zero digital footprint." Abine Blur let's you shop online without revealing your personal email and credit card number. These are hardly household names, but that could change.
Tools Are Hard To Get
The problem with privacy tools, as reflected in the Pew study, is that they're hard for the average person to use.
For example, search engines that don't record search history, like DuckDuckGo, have been around for years. But only 10 percent of respondents say they've used one, and 13 percent don't know these browsers exist.
While people say they'd like to do more, they also say things like: "I do not feel expert enough to know what to do to protect myself, and to know that the protection chosen is effective. Technology changes very fast."
Clearly there's a lot of work for tech entrepreneurs to do, in terms of marketing their goods and designing them to be more user-friendly.
What Kind Of Partisan Issue Is This?
Politically, we are a nation divided over the government's blanket surveillance of American citizens. Just over half of respondents say they're concerned. Just under half say: not really.
But here's an interesting tidbit: Republicans and those who lean Republican are more likely than those in the Democrats camp to say they are losing confidence that surveillance programs serve the public interest (70 percent vs. 55 percent).
This could reflect feelings about President Obama, or a more enduring libertarian streak in the GOP.
It'll be interesting to see how public sentiment shapes up in one emerging debate: While the public and private sectors are both amassing stockpiles of data on us, they are starting to butt heads over encryption. Companies like Yahoo want to encrypt more, to regain consumer trust; and government officials say that gets in the way of intelligence-gathering.
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Hiding from the Internet: Eliminating Personal Online Information
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Mood board of concepts showing the different social perceptions of mystery and openness and their contrasting moods.
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Bulletpoints
– Mystery – Jail bars – Claustrophobia – Restriction – Peering – Scrolling – Cluttered organisation – Online presence and the anonymous – Printed matter and the accountability
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Mystery Rationale
My publication worked around this idea of mystery. It took aim at indecision and limited knowledge to help paint a picture of what Iceland really has to offer in an attempt to encourage travellers to visit. The hero of the publication was the images in that it was the best way to grip the attention of the receiver so essentially this would have to be a large focal point of the online publication as well.
My online publication will aim to exercise this idea of ‘revelation’ in a different light, however. Instead, information that aims to ‘reveal’ the adventure and excitement of Iceland will compete against the digital form of publication in a way that only the virtual world can. In other words, the online publication will aim to shroud the perceived image of Iceland back in mystery. This good vs evil, push/pull effect between the revealing of information and the mystery that is so often associated with the online world will form the basis for this project.
There are a few ways this may be done but, at the forefront, the receiver of information should scroll down in order to uncover information hiding behind a ‘wall’ of invisibility.
To summarise – and for the sake of my sanity – my publication aims to demonstrate the relationship between the understanding of an identity vs the enigma of the unknown through the subject of Iceland.
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Let’s get tumblin’.
Tumbl n tumbl n tumbl n tumbl n tumbl n ...
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