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Geoff Talbot
Apr 19, 2025
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This premise for this post is a bad idea.

I stole it from an Internet guru who I greatly admire.

He was expressing the holy notion that we don’t meet people by accident. That we are sent to each other, for each other.

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I agree with this notion. I believe that you are in fact reading this post for a reason…

However, I hate the categorisation of people like they are some kind of datapoint.

Sure, such categorisation makes the world safer and people appear more manageable… But what if it actually makes us all weaker, less dynamic and accidentally more dangerous?

To illustrate my point, for our paid supporters below (please support us) I am using the strange and weird example of the marriage contract…

Till Death Do Us Part

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