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Old Feb 12, 2007, 01:05 pm   #16 (permalink) (top)
phoenix_fire
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I would ask for a way for human beings to be able to voluntarily and instantly understand another human being.

When verbal communication fails, for both people to willingly open their minds to each other and see their intention without bias, language, or emotional barriers.
I read a story like that once. It was in a Japanese book called "Kino no Tabi". It is about a girl who travels to different lands on a motorcycle. Each one is more dystopic than the last. In one of them, the citizens had found a way to be able to entirely read each others' minds. But when all of the thoughts that most of us diplomatically hold in came to the surface, no one could stand anyone else and they all put vast distances between each other and made an elaborate automatic system so that they would never have to go into town and chance running into anyone. The native that Kino meets there is absolutely overjoyed to meet her and tries to make her stay simply because they cannot read each others' minds.



Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame. -- Song 8:6
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