I Ching

Plus, I only have so many square inches of scratch paper.

Okay - fine - how about "Am I boring?"

totally being respectful - I sincerely don't know and want to know this.

Okay, your two readings look like

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This is not for the Am I boring question.

Well, yes it is. They're similar enough that they might as well be the same.

what does it mean?

That's 46 and 26.

Forty-six reads:

Potential for great advancement. A Summer sacrifice is in line with success. Obstructions are pushed aside. King Wen makes a sacrifice on Mount Ch'i. Make the climb step by step. At night, take rest.

That's your primary reading. Since you had two moving lines, that's your advice.

To avoid being boring I should sacrifice something in the summer that involves going upwards?

Twenty-six reads:

The mountain peaks come through the clouds. The young charioteer urges his powerful horses and the axle breaks. The time is used to practice methods of defense. The young bull wears a headboard. The gelded boar bares his teeth. The dam breaks. Attainment!

If you think 26 contradicts 46, then consider it a caution.

I will conquer my boringness by having an orgasm after getting in a fight after I get in a car accident?

Well, there are sacrifices, but obstructions will be pushed aside, like it said.

xpost Probably not.

Well, I think what you're really worried about is being too boring to find a new mate.

So in that case, maybe 46 makes a lot of sense.

Okay - both indicate that I will attain/accomplish something - conceivably in summer - and there are mountains involved

It's about self-improvement.

and transportation

and boars

Well, maybe. Or you can think about what summer represents. Like, seasonally, with regards to harvesting or planting. And it says to take the climb step by step. It says two things about sacrifice. It says there's potential for great advancement.

Because there's some walking up a mountain? It can be metaphorical movement.

26 is a caution. What would 26 interpreted as a caution mean?

It means don't move too fast!

That's for sure.

both of them combined - the step by step part and the thing about defenses seem to indicate that I shouldn't rush into things

Be defensive. You'll break through. Yes. They actually fit rather well together.

And step by step you can be the person you want to be. I mean, you only care about being boring in regards to other people. If other people didn't exist, what would it matter? That's why I think the question implies a mate.

So, if I'm looking at this in the context of a relationship - I should be cautious, and take things slowly, and avoid getting hurt

Well, yeah, that too. But your question was, Are you boring. Or do you say the same anecdotes too much. It seems that you were concerned with being interesting enough for new friends or a new mate. And so the reading addresses that more than actually being in a relationship.

Obviously you ARE interesting enough for your friends. I mean, you're not a boring person.

so I must slowly work at not being boring?

You must slowly work at self-improvement.

Think of it that way.

that makes sense - thank you for saying that i'm not boring.

And take it easy, because you can't hurry love and friendship.

i think there was a song about that.

Maybe. Probably not. People haven't thought of everything, you know.

If love were a more popular topic for song writers, I'd say you were right.

everything hasn't already been done?

now i'm starting to question post-modernism

Well, they thought everything had been done, but then somebody invented a skateboard with just two wheels.

they also invented the iphone

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Iphone's just a phone people tend to stick their noses in a little extra.

they can also send emails that tell everyone that they were sent from their iphones.

That's not a feature unless you're a wedge.

yeah, but when you think about it - how many products are designed with a default that essentially advertises itself to everyone the product owner communicates with.

These days they would really hope all of them.

it would be like if vitamin water had this special chemical formula that would make the vitamin water logo appear on your throat - like a tattoo - if you drank it.