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It seems the more we go on, the more life demands clear answers from us in regards to the questions it throws our way. How will we respond? Are there other ways of responding? And most importantly: What is our individual stance on the situation we find ourselves in?
It seems there is no single clear path to "the answer" anymore, but instead many options to choose from.
@paradigmprospect invites you to come inside and learn about some unconventional ways of tackling life, its challenges and opportunities in today's edition of The Daily Sneak. Somehow, we are all in this together, so let's each find our team that we want to work with - through their ideas, their experiences and their perspective on life that may teach us a lot about our own situation, if we choose to listen for a while."

@paradigmprospect is an awesome guest curator and needs no further introduction, so let's check out his selections!

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and God made a dog...

Ever seen one of those movies where a human being and an animal magically find one another, to become the best team ever, under the most unlikely circumstances? These things happen all the time; we just never pay much attention to the myriad of factors coming together - that statistical analysts for all intents and purposes consider "impossible".

If you are curious how such things can happen in real life, I invite you to read up on @freebeerfridays' heartfelt story about how he met his beautiful Jack Russell Terrier Mae'ra and how they became a dream team in an instant. Best of all: You don't need to be a believer in order to enjoy his story that some movie studios would do anything for.

And while you're at it: Check out his amazing "Random Acts of Kindness Contest" as well, there are prizes to be had and even more kind souls to be discovered <3

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Drug War Stupidity: Anti-Drug Misinformation

Foresight is better than hindsight. Yeah, you read that right.
It's a rough translation of a German saying that states how prevention will always be better than trying to repair the damage after it has been done.

Take the war on drugs for example, and how kids today are manipulated through school curriculums when it comes to learning about allegedly dangerous substances and how to regard them. As @artisticscreech points out in his passionate post, the information taught is often at complete odds with the actual facts.

If you have children in early or late adolescence and are concerned that they might do something stupid one day, you may want to read up on his insights now, and take a moment to reflect about what actual prevention and harm reduction can look like.
And what it most certainly doesn't look like!

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Work in progress of a drawing from last night’s at home.

Balance is the key to everything in the physical realm. Without it we are like an uprooted tree.

In the spirit of balancing the information contained in these curation selections, I invite you to read about @chrisdyer's latest experiences in deviating from a path he set for himself, only to remember shortly thereafter why the choice was made originally and that it was a good choice worth re-testing.

If - after reading the last article - you feel there are only upsides to smoking cannabis you may want to hear the other side of the story, and consider some of the effects the plant can have on the mind, depending on who you ask - effects that are even less discussed than the alleged "harms" the plant brings to the one who makes use of it. It's not a black or white world anymore - rather it seems each of us must find our own way in navigating life, experience and choice. In everything we do.

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Why do we pay so much to live? - Living Free

This witty post by @movingman is a call to get out of the loop and look for working ways to create self-sustainability and self-reliance with special regard to energy production, starting at a basic level. A true scientist if you ask me.

Why? Because he will actually try out things for himself, instead of getting deterred from finding an answer by the "well-established" narrative of "that's impossible". There are many tales of technologies floating around, and it really is up to the open-minded to find a way to make them work - and whether they work at all. If you are a well-educated electrician, this post will either offend you for its amount of technical "ignorance" or greatly inspire you to double check whether you might be the one who has actually overlooked something along the way.

As it has been put so eloquently before: "The ones claiming it can't be done should not interrupt the ones doing it!"

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"Welcome to the Machine" - 'The Circle' Comes of Age: Surveillance and the Smart Grid

I'm sorry to say this, but if we are to continue to enjoy life in 3 dimensions as human beings we really have to pay attention to the way the stage is being reset and restructured at this time. Many have noticed fundamental changes taking place and these changes can be witnessed everywhere to more and more obvious degrees, if only to make us more aware of our situation.

Whether it is due to our changing consciousness or for any other reason - the controller's wet dream of total surveillance and control over the Earthly population is materializing to levels that were unthinkable to most people mere decades ago - possibly even to Orwell himself.

While spreading blank panic can often be in the interest of the system-architects, we must not look away when the last of our remaining freedoms on Earth are slowly eroded and the level of control over thought and privacy is amped up to degrees that have only been known in the realm of fiction so far.

For this reason, I feel very grateful for the work of @cupidzero, who delivers a solid case as to what societal developments have become clearly visible on the horizon, rolling our way like a merciless freight train if we don't step in. It really is up to all of us to look at what is happening or to live with the consequences of our silent consent to our own enslavement.
Wakey, wakey - it's time! ;)

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Conclusion

These are some incredibly thought-provoking selections, and @paradigmprospect's commentary gives us a lot to ponder as well. Thanks for pushing the envelope, @paradigmprospect!

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