Hi Peter:

I am using my phone. But had the use of a computer earlier and had a conversation with Copilot in regard to the 2 posts I addressed to you yesterday and the first post you addressed to me this morning.

I think that I am at the point of having the best understanding of our different communication styles and what those might mean (not having access to AI, so these are my words):

This might appear jumbled because I’m typing as I think, nothing planned.

It just occurred to me why I NEED to communicate in concrete language and why you need to communicate in abstract, symbolic language: I grew up in intellectual chaos, confusing, no predictability. Nothing was simple or concrete.

You grew up, as I understand it, in a rigid, concrete environment (Christian, heaven or hell, this OR that), no safe space for ambiguity, for this AND that.

So, I grew up to need simple and concrete; you grew up to need what’s removed from the over- simplicity, the overly concrete.

Maybe we both grew up in chaos, only mine was apparent on the outside (a crazy, unpredictable mother), and yours was not apparent on the outside (?), having haf igid, church going predictable parents, but real chaos on the inside of you.

Fast forward, you and I happen to communicate here, in these forums. I talk simple, direct, concrete ( best I can); you talk complicated, indirect, abstract.

Remember I reached out to you in regard to our child versions running on green grass? At first, you didn’t respond at all. Later you responded in a Peter-unusual style, emotional style, only I could easily detect it being an AI generated response.

I think of it affectionately now, to realize how you meant well, how you tried to match my style, a bit of people-pleasing.

Sometime along the way, I perceived you to be a cold, unfeeling person, and I was angry at you for not reciprocating my running-across-green-fields imagery 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️ and my other efforts to connect with you emotionally.

Now, I am thinking that you’ve been trying to emotionally connect with people in the forums in your own way.

Your way can easily- I think- can come across as cold and unfeeling, but that’s not how it is within you. It’s just the Style, something that came about in childhood, and understandably.

So, now, I figure, if I want to understand what you’re saying, I have to decode it into simple, direct language (AI), or maybe AI can help me present my thoughts and feelings in an abstract, symbolic, metaphorical format. Yes, I am sure Copilot can help with that!

But since I am on my phone, I will try to do this on my own (this makes me 😃, I doubt if I can do it)

Okay, let’s see 👀 if I can be Peter for a moment, on my own (no AI):

An Anita generated parable (this is going to be an inferior production, I have no doubt 😌):

There was a girl who died in a burning 🔥 forest, a long way from the city, a place where no one was to look for her, and no one did.

Forgotten by all except for a spark ✨️ in the ashes, one that didn’t, wouldn’t die.

That little spark wanted to be BIG, to be SEEN by all because it was never seen AT ALL.

See 👀 the big case letters screaming?

That’s the silent spark wanting to be fire 🔥

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👀🔥🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️✨️ Anita