{"id":115,"date":"2004-10-26T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-26T04:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/?p=115"},"modified":"2021-01-02T13:29:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T07:59:32","slug":"losing-my-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2004\/10\/26\/losing-my-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"Losing my religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-family:courier new;\">Part 1 &#8211; Templates<\/span><\/strong><br \/><strong><span style=\"font-family:courier new;\"><\/span><\/strong><br \/><span style=\"font-family:courier new;\">a few days back, someone excitedly brought his laptop over to me, and showed me a mail.it was a series of basic mathematic addition questions,which had to be answered as quickly as possible, but the last question was to name a color and a tool &#8211; i said &#8216;red hammer&#8217;&#8230; he scrolled down and the mail said &#8220;red hammer&#8221;. he had said red hammer too, we tried it on some more people, and around 90% said &#8216;red hammer&#8217;, which figured, coz the mail said around 90% inthe world would say &#8216;red hammer&#8217;. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:courier new;\">consider this- you go for a movie -second show. during the break, you go to the loo, in the next cubicle u see a friend and 90% of us would say &#8220;what are you doing here?&#8221;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:courier new;\">countless situations where we thought &#8216;i was about to say that&#8217;&#8230;.the same music we like, the same tv shows, the same content in blogs, the feeling of deja vu in numerous situations&#8230; all what we call coincidences&#8230;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:courier new;\">and so, the hypothesis &#8211; templates, many in number, but yes, all of us templates nevertheless, programmed to respond in a certain way in a certain sitiuation&#8230; which is why there are only so many responses to any sitiuations, which is why inventions and discoveries arent exactly common&#8230;you think matrix, predictable :), so far maybe, but here&#8217;s where the hypothesis deviates because we are not having any &#8216;machine conspiracy&#8217; around..<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:courier new;\">lets deviate a little anyway, when you get back home today, try thinking about what you did for the last hour, not the easy response of a generic answer &#8220;i was travelling back from work&#8221;, but a minute by minute recall&#8230;you would find that most of the actions were on auto pilot, like changing gears in a car&#8230;and therefore you wouldnt remember&#8230; <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:courier new;\">another lil experiment for you, on a regular working day,can you go without saying &#8216;hi&#8217;?.. you would perhaps remember not to say it for an hour, then &#8216;auto pilot&#8217; would take over&#8230;back to the hypothesis, all of us have an auto pilot, all of us also have a higher being inside us, a being constantly ignored in favour of the easier &#8216;auto pilot&#8217;, but extremely important, nevertheless..why? that is for later parts.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:courier new;\">until next time, be unpredictable \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part 1 &#8211; Templatesa few days back, someone excitedly brought his laptop over to me, and showed me a mail.it was a series of basic mathematic addition questions,which had to be answered as quickly as possible, but the last question was to name a color and a tool &#8211; i said &#8216;red hammer&#8217;&#8230; he scrolled <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2004\/10\/26\/losing-my-religion\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[412],"tags":[6105,1446,938,6104],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-autopilot","tag-brain","tag-consciousness","tag-red-hammer"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15188,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/15188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}