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Sleeping = Protection
A Perfect Circle - Counting Bodies Like Sheep - Live at Red Rocks https://t.co/HivBWw6K0p via @YouTube full

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🚨 SHOTS FIRED!

Riley Gaines is coming for Senator Jon Ossoff in 2026 after he voted AGAINST protecting women’s sports from biological males.

He chose politics over women.
He chose ideology over fairness.

Do you stand with Riley Gaines!?!?✊🏻

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A Perfect Circle - Rose (lyrics) 4 Step Mini Hero’s Journey in a 3:30 min song. https://t.co/N8uHaS8Teg via @YouTube

1. Guarded stasis
2. Internal compromise
3. Cautious descent/approach
4. Return to (new) balance

1. The Call / The Fragile Equilibrium (Guarded Perfection)
• Lyrics: “Don’t disturb / The beast / The temperamental goat / The snail while he’s feeding on the Rose”
• This is the ordinary world—but one that’s already tense and precarious. The “Rose” represents something precious, whole, and beautiful (the Self, the anima, inner potential, or the goal of wholeness). It’s being protected/isolated by primal, instinctual guardians (beast = shadow, goat = stubborn ego defenses, snail = slow-moving caution or withdrawal).
• The hero hasn’t left yet; they’re frozen in a state of careful preservation. Disturbing this balance would shatter the illusion of safety. This mirrors the refusal of the call phase—staying frozen because moving forward risks destruction.

2. The Approach / The Tension of Compromise
• Lyrics: “Stay frozen, compromising / What I will / I am”
• The speaker acknowledges the internal conflict: to protect the rose (the ideal self), they must suppress their true will/desire (“what I will”). This is the moment of hesitation right before crossing the threshold—bending around obstacles, staying quiet, but the pressure is building.
• It’s like the hero sensing the call but still negotiating with fear. The “wind silently thrown about” suggests unseen forces pushing toward change, yet the character remains cautious and self-compromising.

3. The Ordeal / The Breaking Point (Bend & Confront)
• Lyrics: “Bend around / The wind silently thrown about / Again I’m treading so quiet and easily”
• This is the descent—the hero finally moves, but delicately. “Bend around” implies yielding/flexibility rather than brute force, yet it’s still a confrontation with chaos (the wind). The repetition of quiet treading suggests navigating danger without fully waking the guardians.
• In hero-journey terms, this is the belly of the whale or the ordeal: entering the unknown, risking the rose (the core self) being damaged or consumed. The snail is “feeding” on it—symbolizing how even protection can slowly erode the thing it’s guarding (a paradox: defense mechanisms that both preserve and consume).

4. The Return / Integration or Fragile Renewal
• The song ends without a triumphant resolution—it fades on that quiet, cyclical tension. The rose survives (for now), but the speaker is still “treading so quiet and easily,” implying they’ve circled back to a new (but not fully resolved) equilibrium.
• This mirrors many psychological hero journeys: the transformation isn’t loud victory but subtle integration. The hero doesn’t slay the beast; they learn to move around it without destroying the rose. It’s wholeness achieved through careful navigation rather than conquest—very much in line with individuation (integrating opposites without annihilating one side).

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A Perfect Circle - Rose (lyrics) 4 Step Mini Hero’s Journey in a 3:30 min song. https://t.co/N8uHaS8Teg via @YouTube

1. Guarded stasis
2. Internal compromise
3. Cautious descent/approach
4. Return to (new) balance

1. The Call / The Fragile Equilibrium (Guarded Perfection)
• Lyrics: “Don’t disturb / The beast / The temperamental goat / The snail while he’s feeding on the Rose”
• This is the ordinary world—but one that’s already tense and precarious. The “Rose” represents something precious, whole, and beautiful (the Self, the anima, inner potential, or the goal of wholeness). It’s being protected/isolated by primal, instinctual guardians (beast = shadow, goat = stubborn ego defenses, snail = slow-moving caution or withdrawal).
• The hero hasn’t left yet; they’re frozen in a state of careful preservation. Disturbing this balance would shatter the illusion of safety. This mirrors the refusal of the call phase—staying frozen because moving forward risks destruction.

2. The Approach / The Tension of Compromise
• Lyrics: “Stay frozen, compromising / What I will / I am”
• The speaker acknowledges the internal conflict: to protect the rose (the ideal self), they must suppress their true will/desire (“what I will”). This is the moment of hesitation right before crossing the threshold—bending around obstacles, staying quiet, but the pressure is building.
• It’s like the hero sensing the call but still negotiating with fear. The “wind silently thrown about” suggests unseen forces pushing toward change, yet the character remains cautious and self-compromising.

3. The Ordeal / The Breaking Point (Bend & Confront)
• Lyrics: “Bend around / The wind silently thrown about / Again I’m treading so quiet and easily”
• This is the descent—the hero finally moves, but delicately. “Bend around” implies yielding/flexibility rather than brute force, yet it’s still a confrontation with chaos (the wind). The repetition of quiet treading suggests navigating danger without fully waking the guardians.
• In hero-journey terms, this is the belly of the whale or the ordeal: entering the unknown, risking the rose (the core self) being damaged or consumed. The snail is “feeding” on it—symbolizing how even protection can slowly erode the thing it’s guarding (a paradox: defense mechanisms that both preserve and consume).

4. The Return / Integration or Fragile Renewal
• The song ends without a triumphant resolution—it fades on that quiet, cyclical tension. The rose survives (for now), but the speaker is still “treading so quiet and easily,” implying they’ve circled back to a new (but not fully resolved) equilibrium.
• This mirrors many psychological hero journeys: the transformation isn’t loud victory but subtle integration. The hero doesn’t slay the beast; they learn to move around it without destroying the rose. It’s wholeness achieved through careful navigation rather than conquest—very much in line with individuation (integrating opposites without annihilating one side).

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US olympics skiers live like this and then say no one is illegal on stolen lift passes or whatever

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@LindyTasteful Nice! 🍻🤣

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@Alpha7021 The media hasn’t told me how I should feel about this yet. https://t.co/VTI4QXGtye

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NPC Olympics 🌈🇺🇸🥇

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@Rainmaker1973 Note not needed on this post. What a waste of time.

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@BasilFawltey @iAnonPatriot Effie Trinket is played by Elizabeth Banks in The Hunger Games

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Hunter S. Thompson
Woody Creek, Colorado AI Alive
https://t.co/kZoyn0jdir

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Hunter S. Thompson
Woody Creek, Colorado 1989

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https://t.co/IqEKkdmyGd
Media propaganda, public relations

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Billy Corgan from the Smashing Pumpkins Unloads: Modern Pop Stars Hiding Behind Crafted, Deceptive Personas for Profit

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Original "real" video @BGOnTheScene
https://t.co/uezVJxdhpU

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NPC Olympics 🌈🇺🇸🥇

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@iAnonPatriot Tool was never in the club. https://t.co/tcbRCTRgDX

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#toolband

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Keep up the good work! 📸🙏🕊️🔜
#photography #photojournalism #Minneapolis