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Want to read a blog? Don't mind if it's not especially good? Then you've come to the right place!

Listen to me talk about culture, entertainment and other things I like. The sort of things that occupy my mind are Bionicle, other Lego lines, Star Wars and more.

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Thoughts on Thinking

You've Never Read an Entire Book

When you read, your eyes look at symbols that stand for sounds, and those sounds represent concepts. Reading requires both of these events (symbols-to-sounds, and sounds-to-concepts) to take place. It happens so quickly, we can ignore the middleman if we want. Writing systems like Chinese are called logographies as opposed to true alphabets, because Chinese characters don't stand for sounds at all, just concepts. You have to learn as many characters in Chinese as there are ideas. English sometim
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