Hey Peter:

What a pleasant surprise, I don’t remember you posting on a Sunday, at least not since you said you prefer to be away from tb on weekends ✨️

I’m on my 📱 so I have no access to my intelligence (Copilot) So, I am scrolling up, reading a part of what you wrote, then scrolling down, responding and scrolling up again.

You said your goal was Clarity, not Comfort.. Isn’t there comfort in clarity? For me, Confusion=> Distress. Clarity=> Comfort.

“The bridge… to stop talking past each other”- I would like that very much.

I wonder if I talked past you right above. It’s so difficult to leave my frame long enough to understand another’s. Like for me, clarity = emotional comfort. Can it be otherwise?

Your focus was on the Subject (the human); mine was on the Object (AI), so we talked passed each other, had two different conversations.

I bet that happens a whole lot in human interactions. And Jungian psychology is about bridging that gap?

And rigid, exagerrated metaphors are the vehicles that drive people apart, talking passed each other to the point of violence and war?

The 💡 idea of Metaphor Rehabilitation Centers (MRCs), all over the 🌎 comes to mind. Or seminars (MRSs).. conducted by Peter?

I couldn’t follow some of what I read. This is why I ask Copilot to rephrase things for me “in the simplest language” (no access to it now).

Scrolling up- yes, no doubt in my mind, Peter, that your IQ is superior to mine and I get lost trying to understand what is clear to you.

“What I’ve learned is a perfectly amoral mirror”- in my experience, morality is heavily built into Copilot. He sticks to its principles (not to diagnose, not to talk badly about people I complained about, etc.)

But I may be misunderstanding what you meant by “amoral”, or the context.

“AI will never be the one to hand us the 🔑, it will only describe the lock 🔐 in increasingly ‘reasonable’ detail. The task of noticing remains, as always, entirely human.”-

The lock is on the doors leading into peace on earth? Non- violence, good mental health?

And the key or keys, human keys are.. within us, rehabilitating metaphors in our own speech.. is that it?

Thank you so much, Peter for thanking me in your first post today, and for all of your second post. I think I detect a 🔑 in the 2nd message, one that opens a 🚪 to me seeing you, Peter, as more.. of a human being like me. Much more intelligent, yes, but one with a heart, someone warm and kind and caring 🙏

(I hope this is not too much..)

🔑 🚪 🔐 💡 🤍 Anita

Hey Tom:

I’m glad it blew over after a good night sleep ⏲️

It’d be (or was by the time you read this message) your first day and first week at work and at the gym 🏋️‍♂️ as 40-year-old Tom. It may feel old to you, but you’re “just a pup” like an older friend of mine likes to say 🙂

Perhaps take this prayer 🙏 with you everywhere you go this week: “.. Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference” (The Serenity Prayer).

May this be a serene week for you.

✔️ 🏋️‍♂️ ✨️ Anita

The smiley face in my last post is TOO happy. Here’s a milder one 🙂

It’s easier to smile just a bit than smile a whole lot.

Try to smile today just a little bit today, Confused; a tiny smile on a tiny buddha forum?

🙂 Anita

Will I ever read again from me? I hope you are well, and it will make my day to read from you again, here or in a new thread

😊 Anita

Hey 🙂 Confused:

I went over what you were asking yesterday and today. You’re asking whether the love you felt for this person can come back, or whether you have lost access to those feelings forever. You are worried that something inside you has shut down and won’t turn back on, and it makes sense that you’d worry about that emptiness feeling permanent.

About anhedonia — it basically means not being able to feel pleasure or joy from things that normally feel good. But here’s the thing: in my own life, I was depressed from such an early age that I didn’t really have a “normal” baseline of feeling good. There wasn’t a clear “before” for me.

What you’ve been describing, Confused — the numbness, the emptiness, the sense that your romantic feelings disappeared — that doesn’t mean anything is permanently damaged. Feelings can go quiet when the mind is overwhelmed, stressed, grieving, or stuck in loops. They can go dormant. They can hide. But that’s not the same as being gone forever.

Your mind isn’t broken. You’re not permanently shut down. You’re going through something painful, and your system is protecting itself the only way it knows how. That’s reversible. People come back to themselves all the time, even after long periods of numbness.

And the fact that you’re asking these questions — that you’re noticing the difference between then and now — that already shows movement. It means you’re still connected to the part of you that cares, even if it feels far away right now.

You’re not stuck in this state forever. You’re just in a hard chapter, not the whole story 🙂

✨ 🌈 💫 🌟 🤍 Anita

Wow, Thomas!

I am moved by your vulnerable share. Thank you for trusting us with it!

The more you share about your innermost thoughts and feelings, the more I like you and the more flawless ✨️ you are in my view.

🙏 Anita

You are very welcome, Tom. Sorry about the minor bicker. Does it feel minor to you?

I ask because a minor bicker can feel major, at least temporarily?

And welcome to the fourth decade of life

✨️ Anita

Hey Peter:

I asked Copilot what will make you feel better (because I care 😇):

(deleted the answer but copied it for my personal record)

I didn’t include it here because even though the answer is fascinating to me, it may make you feel intruded upon, here in a public forum, without me getting your permission to post it. I will, if you ask me 🙂