Oooo happy birthday!! a little something from the Browns we’re so glad you’re here bro.

y-you mean i dont need to check lots of pages for points?!

Exactly, now you offer a new topic to be conspiracy theoried

intelligence is situational and varies respectively based on species. that cant be a marker by which we judge. unless we keep this solely to the human aspect. which we kinda need to otherwise we'll be in the weeds forever. also the mind makes connections on subconscious levels all the time. so not sure that's a solid basis either. though i know your intent of the point. personally i like the question 'when is it instinct and when is it learning?' when intentional action comes into play.

actually you should be able to do it yourself under Account Settings

Welcome! Our Mistress of the Novices @Delenn will be along shortly to get you settled in:)

Love smart street art

always loved this one

so this was something i hosted at another site, thought it's fitting here. the premise is simple, anything can be a conspiracy theory if you think about it enough. so here's what you do, one person posts a topic like say....Lucky Charms and the next person writes up a conspiracy theory around it like 'lucky charms is merely the public facade of a vast leprechaun consortium bent on both enlarging their pot of gold as well as desensitizing the masses to their existence...' the conspiracy can be as detailed as you can make it or merely one sentence. but go for the gusto! once you've uncovered that conspiracy, post a new topic to be had at the end. so first topic: Kaff

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oh gosh am i. i saw that on my feed a good while ago, and it is an EYEOPENER.

Lol been there Heavy.

ever come across a meme or a joke or anything that just kinda summarizes you? speaks a way that you cant? post them here! lets see eachother in a different way one for me from one of my favorite first ladies:

...of you ever think about it? what and who you would be like if you were the evil version of you? what would your vices be? what kinds of trouble would you cause? would you become? it's something we playfully indulge here in Shayol Ghul, and it makes for an interesting topic.

yeah. its a bit like we're finishing their unfinished business, which in itself i dont think many people realize is a source of our pain as well. knowing what was left behind undone.

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first of all my deepest sympathies. loss is...hard and that is both the simplest and weakest way to say it. its so so complex. i can totally relate. not knowing where to send or what to do with the utter wealth of love that continues to well up inside you after having someone just...removed from your life. you cant hug them, you cant pour that pain of absence into their arms. or verbally tell them everything about them that you miss. its a void into which we scream all the love that cant be spent. i wish i could tell you what to do with it. what works for one may not work for another, and in the end we have to figure out how to navigate this path. but for me. that saying, helped. in itself i began to understand the pain more. why i hurt specifically. i also found an outlet. something my mom loved, something we worked on together, and i poured my love into that project.

knowledge and the Browns. as an ajah both in the books and here on DM, we thoroughly enjoy expanding our minds, our experience, dedicating ourselves to understanding. be it understanding our jobs, our hobbies and interests, things that puzzle us and those that intrigue us. our small worlds or the universe as a whole. learning is our passion. because when you take the time to learn, to understand a thing, your scope, your world expands and you're better able, more capable of applying and handling it. i personally believe our collection of knowledge tends to the passionate more than the dispassionate. for we research what we love. as one should with the people they love, you get to know them, their quirks, their personalities, their likes and dislikes and truly the deeper sign of love is studying what makes them happy, understanding what they love, their passions. KNOWING them as completely as you can. that same passion can be applied to such a vast array of things it boggles the mind. it excites the soul of a Brown. is there overlap? most certainly. we are not knowledge consuming machines, rather ones that apply what we learn. discern its best uses, its value. but whilst we agree on the intermingling of knowledge/reasoning/logic in life and in our ajahs, i do challenge the presumption that reasoning leads to the collection of facts and knowledge allows further reasoning. when the initial 'reasoning' could well be nothing more than instinct. to use your example of the seasons, knowing when to prepare, to read the times etc. one does not need to apply logic to what they see to know a thing. to recognize a pattern and to act on it. instinct can do all that without the application of actional logic. to 'reason' after all is a verb. a choice. a willful application. knowledge CAN be innate. it can exist pure. and for that, there is no milk. and with that, let's open it up for discussion! have a thought? a question, a side? chime in!

years fly by quick though.

White vs. Brown: Knowledge vs. Reason and Logic welcome to Tea… with Milk! the show that brings you burning questions, delves into the deepest mysteries, is unafraid to go where pleading minds desire! hailing from two ajahs that may appear intwined in purpose, the Brown and White, the tea and the milk, may share a strong foundational bonding but our approaches and focus can be vastly different. Offering unique viewpoints, counterpoints and a thirst for both knowledge and its logical applications. My co-host and I may agree on much, may disagree on others, together discussion is had and growth stems from it which is the goal of TwM. stimulating your mind, broadening your scope. And ours in the process. (With perhaps a healthy mix of levity along the way) so to begin we thought it best to begin with a fundamental introduction, just who are the Brown and White Ajahs? What do we believe? And from there a discussion lies. and with that i hand it over to @Delenn to tell us about the Whites