For the Gnostics, this prison was a consequence of mankind's imperfect creation; for Baudrillard, the upshot of our materialism and dependence on technology; for paranoid science fiction writers like Dick, a plot by nefarious government entities with access to advanced technology to control our destinies.
"(If suffering were) a required experience for our citizenship in the universe, then the experiences would be distributed more fairly, and if it isn't a requirement, but just a quirk of living on an imperfect planet as an imperfect creation, then that seems capriciously cruel.
For believers, Zohar is interpreted as God's brilliant light -- an energy or radiance that existed at Creation but was shattered dispersing divine shards throughout our imperfect universe.
Because 3D scanning is imperfect, the creation of mesh models of various objects rarely leads to a perfect copy of the original.
The dotted vertical green line represents the time of first exposure, i.e. the time of occurrence of the first pair; the dotted vertical blue line corresponds to the time of the last perfect pair's creation and the dotted vertical red line corresponds to the time of the last imperfect pair's creation.
That seems apposite, since the blurry, imperfect, magical act of creation is part of Mr. Jasperse's subject in "Truth".
Snapchat, by contrast, seems like the closest thing the Internet has to artisanal-style "small batch" goods: an imperfect but hand-made creation offered to a few people in a mini serving size that won't last.
It's true that most of us try to "conform to a standard" socially, but in private, our freer true Selves have quirks, and unique preferences; we are infinitely complex, highly imperfect one-of-a-kind creations - our billions of nerve cells uniquely programmed by genetics and experiences.
Local government, however imperfect, matters hugely to the creation of a stable society in Northern Ireland.
The voice of the customer is only one voice in the ecosystem of co-creation, and an imperfect one at that since customers cannot imagine what they have not seen.
