{"id":5661,"date":"2014-05-01T09:06:34","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T16:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=5661"},"modified":"2014-05-01T09:06:34","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T16:06:34","slug":"stories-without-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=5661","title":{"rendered":"Stories without End"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The self is a story told across linear time.<\/p>\n<p>So what is linear time? How can we move out of this linearity? Linearity meaning connection between two points. I think we can say that this connection is from past to future, from concerns to expectations, from the things we know to the things we think we know, from the image we make of ourselves to the confirmation of this image, form the known to the predictable.<\/p>\n<p>I dare to say that this linearity depends on the views and values we share with the society and on the path we choose to follow.<\/p>\n<p>We have opportunities and choices every moment of our lives, but we usually choose the more familiar or easier ones. I\u00c2\u00b4ve read once that each time we choose a less familiar one, time branches out inviting openness. So I wonder if this openness could lead to new nonlinear connections and branches<\/p>\n<p>Monkey noises and throwing bananas are used the world over as a racist gesture at football matches. Recently, a fan, not happy with the game, threw a banana against a colored footballer calling him a monkey. The player took the banana and ate it prior to taking the kick. His playful attitude made a lot of people play with him letting racism aside.<\/p>\n<p>It was said in the news phrases like<em>: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If you can&#8217;t beat racism, eat it\u00e2\u20ac\u009d , \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We are all monkeys\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, <\/em>etc.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"We are all monkeys\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/blogs-trending-27191333\">http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/blogs-trending-27191333<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Can the self, glued in its stories, be more flexible? Can its stories have alternative ends opening \u00c2\u00a0to multidimensional fields of opportunities?<\/p>\n<p>Every time I feel like a victim I can remember the banana story. Perhaps I can move away from\u00c2\u00a0linear time bringing a more creative meaning to my life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/banana.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5662 \" src=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/banana-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"banana\" width=\"243\" height=\"136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/banana-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/banana.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The self is a story told across linear time. So what is linear time? How can we move out of this linearity? Linearity meaning connection between two points. I think we can say that this connection is from past to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=5661\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":595,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136,74,91,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-01-general-tsk-discussions","category-self","category-stories","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/595"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}