#empedocles

I’d be willing to bet that rag doll that Mulder gives to Scully (technically to William) is one of the very few things of his sister’s that remains. Possibly the only thing, other than photos of her. I can’t imagine Teena or Bill could stand to keep her things around very long, since they knew on some level that they wouldn’t be getting her back. I can see them keeping her room locked until they divorced and sold the house.

Do not at all hold back trust ... wherever there is a channel for understanding, but understand each thing in whatever way it is clear.

the blue robe that Scully wears when she is pregnant is not hers--it's Mulder's. It's waaay too big and aren't the sleeves rolled up and still look too big? Would she buy such a big robe or just use his robe? Maybe it was a robe she brought from his apartment when he was gone.

To achieve Empedoclean enlightenment is to divest yourself of your ingrained attachment to familiar body shapes and conventional kinds of conduct. It is to recognise the seemingly alien other as in fact fundamentally akin to you. Revising and widening the Stoic maxim, the Empedoclean position can be captured in the proposition: I am a living being, I consider nothing alive alien to me. From this higher standpoint, the relations that bind us to our family, friends, compatriots, humanity and to other animals appear much like the spiralling whorl of a mollusc shell, each form enclosed within broader forms, with the all-embracing form of life encompassing them all.