Anastasya Shepherd

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Category: Poetry

  • Set Theory

    Where the set theory fails:
    there is a large set of things that I find pretty,
    there is a larger set of things that I find interesting,
    and a still larger set of things that I find pretty interesting.
    However, only two of them overlap.

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  • Poetry

    In the rare cases when they don’t rely on knee-jerk sentimentality, bad poets make you think: ‘these feelings are much stranger and stronger than what I feel, it must be what deep feelings are like and what I am supposed to feel…’ Good poets make you think: ‘this is exactly how I feel when I have no words to describe it…’ Brilliant poets make you think: ‘Huh? What? Why? Wow!’

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  • Freedom of Religion

    I consider freedom of thought and belief essential for the functioning of a society I want to live in and, therefore, I am for the people’s freedom to practice their religion. Unfortunately, most religions violently disagree.

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    ashepherd
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  • Exit

    The door is open.

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    ashepherd
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  • The Void

    Throwing your voice into the void
    is what you do
    when you can do nothing else,
    when you cannot not do it,
    when the void is the only one that listens.
    It sucks in your voice
    and returns nothing.
    It is the epitome of nothing –
    the void,
    the perfect recipient
    for the perfect donor.

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    ashepherd
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  • My self

    As to myself, the fact that my self does not exist is quite obvious to me.

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    ashepherd
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  • Photography

    Photographs incidental, used as a device to focus my mind, to force myself to see and notice.

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    ashepherd
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  • Health and Safety

    While standing on the shoulders of giants, please refrain from becoming overexcited and jumping up and down!

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    ashepherd
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  • Insanity

    Insanity is not a sign of a broken mind – it is a side effect of normal brain function in combination with collective cultural delusions. Our brains normally function by fitting reality into the framework of our predictions. Our cultures constitute a collective framework of assumptions underlying those predictions. If our predictions override reality in a way that differs from everyone else’s, it constitutes madness.

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    ashepherd
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