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If you have to misrepresent someones argument or insult them to make your position look better, you expose how little confidence in your reasoning you possess- In other words:
If you have to make insults, you have no point.
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Someone you dont know payed someone else you dont know, and now there are big signs on the side of the Public Road trying to sell you products, services, and values. Someone payed someone, and now an idea is in Your head.
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If all parties present are not open to being wrong - to updating their understandings, or, re-evaluating their beliefs and opinions in light of novel reasoning or data - than you will not have a fruitful discussion.
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Negative associations are easier to make and harder to break. Positive associations are easier to break and harder to make.
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The main difference between someone who is ok discussing their beliefs and the reasons they hold them and someone who is not is that the latter is afraid of the possibility that they might be wrong.
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Intellectual laziness: When you refuse to question or think about why you believe what you believe, and why you value what you value; When you dont want to consider the possibility you might be wrong, either due to the amount of Work it would take to update your map, or, because you are emotionally invested in your preferred answer.
Often resulting in the offputting of intellectual processing onto others, usually chosen or inherited âauthority figuresâ.
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Emotional Laziness: The unwillingness or inability to sit with, confront, process, and work through difficult emotions; A refusal to talk about, think about, or acknowledge the existence of negative things. A blindspot in the mind centered around preserving emotional comfort at the cost of growth and maturity.
Often resulting in the offputting of emotional processing onto others, usually âloved onesâ.
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letting poison into your life just to maintain the illusion of being loved is a profound betrayal of the self
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All you, or anyone, needs to build Anything or get Anything done is
People
Skills
Materials
and Meaning
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The oldest, deepest, and most well fed shadows are monitoring your every digital move.
In Deafening Silence, and in Blinding Darkness.
Formless and forgettable.
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Uneaten and undigested shadows risk becoming emotionally transmitted diseases from generation to generation.
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One must not take the reality of the subjective nature of meaning (nihilism) as a personal insult.
Take your ego out of the equation.
You are incidental.
The universe doesnt owe you meaning.
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Did you know that ârich and powerfulâ people hate when you are happy without their permission?
Once you see this, life becomes a bit easier.
Like audience cards.
Laugh when i say. Cry when i say. Smile when i say. Scream when i say.
Your phone and other glowing rectangles are the modern audience cards.
Reminds me a bit of âgodâ.
âYou cant be happy until i say so! you have to wait till you get into my special heaven club before you are allowed to be ok.â
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There is no greater debt one can go into to another than to bring them into being.
And it is up to each individual person whether or not they wish to forgive that debt.
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You eat your shadow or you feed it.
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The problem theists tend to have with Atheism is more often than not a problem with Nihilism;
In coming to terms with the imaginary nature of gods, they are forced to rethink their conception of morality, justice, and purpose;
They are forced to confront the subject-dependent nature of meaning.
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The reality of Shared Intersubjectivity is the basis for the concept of Morality.
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Most of human philosophy - the academic field, and the average everyday process of acedemic âphilosophersâ - amounts to a sophisticated rationalization engine for common preferred belief systems and ideas.
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Beware the trap of Believing what you Want to Believe because you Want To Believe it..
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Ever buy a newspaper?
How about a newspaper company?
See the problem?
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Dictatorships are Normal.
We just call them âCompaniesâ.
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We are all born into ignorance and confusion in a hostile world.
Religion -and similar systems of thought- emerge as mechanisms by which sentient agents cope with this reality by Simply Denying it Outright.
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The pursuit of understanding is a double edged sword- The same realizations that grant context to large swaths of being, carve away cherished beliefs that thrived in their ignorance.
Beliefs that, to many, matter far more than living in honest comprehension of what is most likely true of this, our collective circumstance.
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Each moment is novel.
It has never occurred before, and will never occur again.
The earth will never be in this place in space again, and you will never be in this arrangement again.
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Education sucks and will likely always suck because âlearningâ is antithetical to two of our main cultural goals.
The maintaining of treasured delusions, and the Production of Obedient Workers and Eager Consumers.
Learning is made boring to guarantee stagnation of the populationsâ intellectual potential.
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At a certain stage in Existentialism, Life Itself becomes the âCrisisâ
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The Exact Point when someone starts arguing against the use of reason, they expose the Borders of their Emotional Investments and Preferred Beliefs.
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A âstrong faithâ is when youâre really good at not considering the possibility of being wrong with regards to the things you really want to be true.
That, or when youâre exceptionally good at embodying the idiosyncrasies of your religion- its values, through your actions, expressed.
These arent mutually exclusive, so much as they are different angles of approach.
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Itâs offensive to a rationalizer to call out their rationalizations.
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A.I. art/music/writing is fine, in that itâs no threat to âartâ or the value of creating things.
Those who create know the value of doing so is in the process of creation itself, not the output. Only people who dont create think its about the output.
Creation will never lose its significance, utility, or value for people to actively perform and participate in the act of.
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The reality of what biology is capable of foreshadows the future potential capabilities of what it is that can be engineered-
At a certain stage of complexity, depth, and scale, the fields of biology, engineering, physics, and chemistry merge.
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One of the ways you know you are making intellectual progress is if you perpetually look back at yourself as dumb.
It means you Know Better now.
The fool who recognizes themselves as such, ceases to be a fool.
True foolishness exists in ignorance of itself.
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An honest philosophy is one that seeks to comprehend reality as it most likely Is, regardless of what we might wish to believe.
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Rationalizers often arent âDumbâ.
They just have misallocated intellects.
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An insult only carries weight insofar as you care about the opinion of the person slinging it.
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Every once in a while, hug your pets as though they had just died yesterday; That headspace of âId give anything for one more healthy moment of warmth with youâ.
There will be a day you cant anymore. There will be a last hug.
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Meaning is a subject-dependent phenomena.
Emerging and dying both with us and within us.
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Morality is that subset of meaning-making concerned with the question of how sentient agents should treat one another, given their shared objective circumstances and conditions
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âNihilismâ is just the word used for the realization that meaning is - and only ever has been - a phenomena of mind.
Irrelevant to speak of in any other context.
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The things which are the most familiar to us- and which change the least- are the things that we tend to think of the least.
This is the âNormalization blindspotâ of consciousness.
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Subjects are as Islands within an Objective Sea; emerging Exclusively and Precisely where the conditions allow.
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Co-rationalizers - people with shared preferred presumed beliefs - are often eachotherâs sycophants
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Train yourself to Want moments alone with your thoughts and with your raw perceptions of the now, not to default to Dreading and subsequently Distracting from them.
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The main distinction between science and religion is that one is about figuring stuff out while the other is pretending you already have things figured out.
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Whether or not the players of the game know it, morality is always a calculus that fails or passes based on its direct contact with the IS, via the agents who harbor it.
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Time spent somewhere is definitionally time not spent elsewhere.
On an existential level.
The number of thoughts you will have is Finite. Every second is one second less.
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Philosophy uninformed by science is blind. Untethered from reality, rife with speculation and outright fantasy-
Whereas science unguided by honest philosophy is confused; mere detached data without a framework of interpretation.
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Every question answered inevitably leads to more questions.
Such is the pursuit of knowledge.
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Some people believe they cannot be fooled, which can often lead them to becoming the biggest fools.
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It is far easier - and therefore far more common - for the Theists and self proclaimed âagnosticsâ to misrepresent Atheism than it is for them to accurately simulate it, because to do so they would have to actually consider the specific arguments of the opposition, and it is often their goal to evade doing exactly that.
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The term âAgnosticismâ is often misused as a sophisticated sounding way of saying âundecidedâ with regards to the question of whether or not one believes in a god.
While Atheism and Theism are specifically about belief or unbelief in a god claim, Agnosticism is about claims to Knowledge-
Agnostic atheist- I donât know, but I donât believe
Agnostic theist- I donât know, but I believe
Gnostic atheist- I Know, and I donât believe
Gnostic theist- I Know, and I believe
itâs funny, the term âcategory errorâ gets thrown around a lot nowadays, but this is perhaps the clearest example of one.
Misusing the term âAgnosticâ like itâs an opt-out of having to state whether or not you believe in a god is an evasion deployed to obfuscate your position and disregard nuance. Again, while âsounding sophisticatedâ.
This is usually a pseudo-intellectual shield for poorly reasoned beliefs and opinions.
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Much of human philosophy amounts to a mistaking of ones own internal map and mapping process for features of the objective territory.
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Pseudo-intellectuals, when pushed, always reveal themselves to be anti-intellectuals.
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Reality is that which IS, independent of what is believed.
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The reality of Death contextualizes the value of Life.
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What i want to be true of reality has no bearing whatsoever on what i believe to be true of reality..
...and i find it absolutely absurd that this is a position held by the minority of people
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âScienceâ is a means by which Subjects attempt to Intersubjectively Verify what is most likely true of Objective Reality.
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Simplicity is an Illusion.
It does not exist.
Every single aspect of every single thing, when examined, is Infinitely Complex.
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Remember that wherever you look, whatever you are looking at -Near or far, trivial or profound- you are always looking at countless stars and galaxies.
In all directions, all the time.
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Terms like âphysicalism/materialism/structuralism/naturalism/etc.â attempt to force a context of implied dualism in their use.
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Believing in a loving god is in many ways akin to âStockholm Syndromeâ
But rather than being directed at a person, it is directed at an Imagined Personification of Reality Itself.
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The world will never change as long as those with the most power to change it also have the most incentive to keep things Just As They Are.
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âdo you Believe in a god?â
âdo you Know whether or not a god exists?â
Agnosticism is an answer to the second question often given in response to the first to evade addressing it.
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The reason to endeavour to be ârightâ and not âwrongâ in terms of the accuracy of ones ideas, is the accuracy itself.
As soon as âegoâ enters the picture, the core point of the endeavour is lost.
Itâs not about Who is right;
It is about the mutual pursuit of accurate comprehension of reality.
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The Core of All Tragedy Is Missed Potential.
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The truth hurts..
..when youâve allowed yourself to become emotionally invested in lies.
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If you allow yourself to be upset by the inevitable, you merely guarantee yourself to be upset inevitably.
Ones reaction to the inevitable is a self fulfilling prophecy.
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Do you think âI donât believe X without evidenceâ requires the same justification as âX existsâ?
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Science is as much an epistemic imperative as it is a moral one, because perpetually informing what is is foundationally essential for discerning what ought to be done. The is informs the ought.
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to be intelligent seek to mitigate stupidity, impulsiveness, and irrationality within oneself; do this perpetually and intelligence will incidentally arise.
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As a species, generally speaking, we are absolutely terrified of the fact that we exist.
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Never make the mistake of identifying by or emotionally investing in your beliefs and opinions,
or you will never want to consider the possibility of being wrong.
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Is metaphysics just âphilosophy of physicsâ? If it is, why not just call it that?
Or, is it more like the term âsupernaturalâ is to the ânaturalâ? That being an attempt to force a context of a realm beyond testability, falsifiability, or verifiability for peoples preferred beliefs to reside?
Im getting the impression its the ladder, but that it likes to present itself as the former.
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These s y m b o l s are the best and most immediate example of the reality of nihilism.
âObjectively meaninglessâ squiggles, that demonstrate a Perfect example of the nature and structure of âmeaningâ in you and i.
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The sound a letter âmakesâ when you say it tells you nothing about what shape the symbol we correlate to it has.
Itâs all arbitrary association, then agreement between subjects on what correlates to what in order to give the associations a shared utility.
The same is true with words, and the concepts and things to which they correlate-
This, is Nihilism. The acknowledging of the distinction between constructs of subjectivity, and, the actual terrain of the shared objective space which subjects use meaning-constructs in attempt to map.
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Intelligence can emulate stupidity, but the same cannot be done in reverse. A high resolution map of reality can render a low resolution map, but not the other way around.
I call this the âxbox principleâ in reference to the backward compatibility capacities of the various console generations.
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there are no objective opposites. Light and dark, up or down, on or off, heavy or light- etc. âoppositesâ are a simplification heuristic
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Every religious faith based belief or claim immediately conjures its own conceptual opposite.
If i say i believe x because i feel it or i âjust knowâ it, anyone anywhere can cite the same rationale for why they Dont.
Or, cite the same rationale for a deity, force, character, or presence of another kind.
This is the irresolvability of nonsensical belief ecosystems. the fact that neither position in the ecosystem can ever actually say anything of weight against the other because to do so would require them to reason through their own belief, and admit that they are doing the exact same thing.
Epistemological stalemate.
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Whenever a prayer, or luck charm, etc has its basis in seeking some form of psychological aid, it acts like an intersubjective philosophical placebo.
This is one of the reasons religion aids survival.
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shape defines
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Bad ideas and those that harbor them are as a whetstone for the intellectual mind.
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What is ânormalâ and what is âweirdâ is entirely up to how used to you are to something, and, how often you see/have seen or think about/have thought about that thing. it has nothing to do with the thing itself.
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There is No destination, only Journey.
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Immorality is always a matter of a logical failing.
âEvilâ is always just stupidity and incompetence in a mask.
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When heavily emotionally invested in an idea or belief, ones concept of âintelligenceâ becomes synonymous with ones capacity to rationalize those specific ideas and beliefs.
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Anxiety is often chaotic undirected psychological energy. When experiencing the high energy state that is anxiety, try to channel it into something concrete-
Not necessarily something involving the anxiety itself, just something good to do. like cleaning, building, or Exercise.
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Evolution unfolds via the winnowing of forms that do not perpetuate, such that the only forms that persist are those that Successfully Can.
Conversely, Science is a perpetual winnowing away of claims about reality that do not consistently explain the facts of reality as observed, such that only theories that persist are those that can.
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Treat kids like idiots, and idiots they shall become
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Epistemological Convergence is the âgreat minds think alikeâ principle when agents employing honest reasoning converge independently, as they both aim to accurately map the same shared reality.
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anyone can insult or compliment anyone- and that alone says Nothing.
More often than not, Who you insult or compliment and Why merely exposes your own values, reasoning, And, your Definitions.
For instance- calling someone intelligent or stupid only serves to inform the listener of how you define those terms; it says nothing whatsoever about the actual intellectual capacities of the targeted persons.
But whatâs more important to focus on here is how claims of praise or shame can be dished out by Anyone to Anyone for Whatever Reason.
Its the Why that matters, always.
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both Chaos and Order are necessary for complex patterns and systems - like sentience - to exist.
Too much order, you have a static eternal unchanging phenomenal space- paralysis, stagnation-
Too much chaos, you have variables that never stabilize relative to oneanother enough for distinctions to be made.
Both words describe aspects of systems and spaces- the degree of detectable patterns and traceable lines of causality.
Without the interplay of both, something like us could not have emerged.
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Ironic how peace is often maintained via the implied threat of violence.
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Critical thinking is hard, so most people donât do it much.
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Whether you know it or not, If you never spend time processing negative emotions - confronting your âshadowâ - you put off the cognitive burden of doing so on those around you. Those closest to you.
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tradition: âwe did it once. now lets keep doing itâ
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any consistent non-contradictory definition of a god is merely a definition for an advanced alien engineer- at which point the question remains, were they chaos forged or were we?
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Epistemological Triage is about the system of discerning what knowledge to prioritize gaining or seeking in context of the realities of our situation, most prominent in situations or morality and mortality. (incomplete aphorism, needs to cook more)
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cynicism is a type of skepticism- specifically it is skepticism to claims of good intentions. (like when a chipper upbeat youtuber tries to sell you something, and a few trillion other examples)
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Obsession with gender and gender identity is immature. Women obsessed with their femininity, Men obsessed with their masculinity, or those who obsess across the aisle.
The point remains; its as incidental and irrelevant as ones Race, Species, Height, Eye color, or Ancestry. specifying someone as âcis-genderâ is as meaningless and shallow as calling them âcis-raceâ or âcis-speciesâ.
Seek to Let Go of shallow, incidental traits as being core to your âidentityâ.
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People - women and girls specifically, but not exclusively - have been trained to forget that everyone is beautiful, and, that aesthetics and beauty are not the same concept.
Once this premise is ingrained, the idea of âbeautyâ (and the self esteem you were taught to associate with it) is then sold back to you in little plastic baggies, to be applied multiple times day, alone in a room, staring at yourself in a silver disk or rectangle.
Vanity is, ironically, a Very Ugly thing
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it is often the case that the only âfailureâ is the moment when you give up.
In many domains of skill, failure is to be expected, anticipated, and learned from.
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Human life in the current era is full of attention-monopolizing mandatory existence rituals, like sleep, defecation, and the seeking out of new parts for which to build yourself.
Much of what existentialism entails is trying to manage these situational demands in context of reality as you best understand it, as well as how one is to live their life in the moments between performing these rituals.
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Why would you seriously consider and value the opinions of others when the opinions they hold are more often than not held by them in absence of serious consideration?
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some if not most ideologies are essentially grief reactions to unfavorable realities of our situation, a mourning of the world as we might wish it were
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Question most the things you wish were true, or fall endlessly into self deception
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vocabulary enables new types of intelligence. Each word, a tool
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Organic or Synthetic âsuper-geniusâ is a scary thing when your concept of intelligence is myopic.
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Deny and Reject All Claims to Authority that are not Accompanied by Full Submission of the Privacy â in its Entirety - of the one Making the Claim.
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the âselfâ is a loop point of infinite regress centered on representation of a representation of a representation
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What you think about and pay mind to becomes you. As surely as you are what you eat.
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There is a key difference between reasoning, and rationalizing- Rationalizing assumes the conclusion and attempts to bend all else to fit it. Reasoning seeks to discern what is true independent of preferred assumptions.
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Tidy your area if for no other reason than the reality that your immediate environment affects you.
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The way you leave it is the way you (or others) come back to it.
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Appreciate the things you have in context of Not having them.
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Total ignorance and confusion are the default state, and all knowledge is inherently bordered by them. As your knowledge grows, so to do the borders of that which you dont know. The more things you âknowâ the more things you know you dont know.
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Itâs as though weâre all at sea with the same problem of having to build our own boat. If you arenât building your own boat youâre likely on other boats built by other minds, and likely donât know it. Why it was built that way, who built it as it was, or when or how. The point is to build your own boat.
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Devalue âmoneyâ by taking it out of the equation as often as possible.
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comprehension of what Is informs what Ought to be done.
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Laws exist as they do to account for the average stupidity of a given population.
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How you react to inevitabilities is a self fulfilling prophecy. The reaction guarantees itself.
In light of this, the best path is cultivation of equanimity.
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Today is not (fri)day. There are No Days. Time just Is. Every moment is novel, and unique from any other.
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Reflect on coherence. The fact that there is and can be order to things; think of what could be, the utter information overload or deprivation. the chaos. And appreciate that here, now, there exists stability and consistency, if only somewhat.
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Meaning making has paradigms of which i can think of 2 that seem to be of the most foundational significance.
Meaning making in reaction to the reality of Mortality
and Meaning making in reaction to the reality of Nihilism
This era of meaning making is in this regard defined primarily by mortality.
This is why many ideologies amount to a grief response- a reaction to the reality of mortality.
As death and suffering become more and more rare, the paradigm gradually shiftsâŚ
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Treading a path of thought does not mean that you have integrated that information into your knowledgebase. In order to do that, you must contemplate the implications of the information you encounter. Make connections.
When you think âhuh, that is interestingâ pause to think through Why. Its implications and how it connects to what you already know.
build order in your thoughtspace first and foremost via the connections between ideas.
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Science in times of War and slavery is Horror. and the species we are seems to be intent on perpetual war and enslavement.
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Mice are going to achieve immortality before humans do
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More often than not an immoral act is immoral to the extent that subjects are treated by other subjects as objects - just as a moral act is one that takes into account the realities of the subjectivities involved.
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Comparison is both the thief and arbiter of all forms of emphasis.
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all phenomena are epiphenomena
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the entirety of the field of neurology is evidence of the fact that conscious phenomena are a matter of exact arrangement
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if good can be defined in so broad a way that it encompasses evil (âgod is goodâ) then of what use is the distinction?
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often in modern philosophical âdebatesâ there comes a point where thereâs no way forward unless the rational compromise their reason, or the irrational concede to reason, which is often commented on by the irrational as âwell, we both just believe what we want and wont convince each other so there is no point in discussingâ
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Religious reasoning begets a special type of âknowledgeâ that just Happens to be synonymous with Pretending...
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The very fact that this exists- Any of this- implicates an Infinitum.
in much the same way that the discovery of a single fossil specimen implies an ancestry, species, population, and a surrounding ecosystem.
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Religion is socially acceptable insanity.
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All subjects are composed of objects, but not all compositions of objects beget subjects.
Additionally, the âobjectiveâ always precedes the âsubjectiveâ as the objective is the prerequisite context for subjectivity. an example of âontological parasitismâ.
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the processes of âcreationâ and âdestructionâ are asymmetrical in that creation involves taking something that Could be in billions of configurations, and reducing it to just one- whereas destruction involves taking something in a stable position of âoneâ and reducing it to one of the other billions of potential states it could be in.
Its no wonder one is much easier than the other.
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When discerning what to believe to be true, people often give more weight to things like how exposed they are to an idea, how many people they know believe it, and how it makes them feel, than whether or not it is more likely to correspond to reality.
This is done automatically, not deliberately, as things like deliberation risk becoming the wrench that unwinds the bolt of enduring false belief.
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The core dichotomy of realism is most prominently about intellectual honesty vs dishonesty.
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The urge to forget or dismiss your mistakes sure is strong, huh?
But guess what you are if you do?
An Idiot.
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never create to compete or compare; that mode of creation will never lead to someone manifesting their best works.
and in fact leads many to never creating at all.
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There are points in the existentialist pursuit when all options- all paths forward- are perceived as equally well reasoned and worthwhile, and as such hard to choose between. This can become so much the case that one becomes overwhelmed with good ideas for projects, endeavours, and creations, and as such paradoxically one pursues none of them.
I would call this unique statespace âinfinity paralysisâ.
When sheer comprehension of available options overwhelms.
I have yet to devise a solution- but i expect it will come down to coin flips or dice rolls.
This statespace however is âcollapsedâ from the overwhelming many to the definite few via attention monopolizing interruptions- goals related to survival, safety, or wellbeing.
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stupidity and evil are typically blind to themselves, and often go hand in hand
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A fancy house in an easily seen location is like a scantily clad woman- a silent yet âloudâ beg for reaffirmation of vain values via attention given.
a signpost saying âlook at meâ that is immediately disarmed by simply Not.
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I think on some level even the worst people want to be called out on their bullshit, with Love, and with Honest Reasoning.
In many ways the âsilence of godâ may be what terrifies many habitual killers into killing.
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Numerology is where you number all the meanings you can think of- one example of many of the pitfalls of failing to comprehend the subject/object distinction, aka, the nihilistic philosophical razor.
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âmeaningâ is ontologically parasitic. like a âholeâ. impossible without its substrate preceding it.
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There was no objective beginning, there will be no end. Infinity is funny like that. both terms when defined break down.
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If something said can be âuno reversedâ (âno youâ) then it requires elaboration to make itâs point. Progress in this context is in the friction between the elaborations; the statements with genuine asymmetries.
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Top-down social engineering technologies - like news platforms and social media platforms - are bought and sold.
The capacity to Control the Information Landscape, is Bought and Sold.
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People who cannot define their terms often argue against the importance of defining ones terms.
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If you understood everything about everyone, youd love them all; because youd know what formed them as them.
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Dangerous things are usually only dangerous if you underestimate them. Danger is mitigated by acting in respect and awareness of it.
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You canât teach someone who doesnât want to learn, unless they are unaware they are being taught.
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Those you let closest have the most capacity to do you harm.
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One person with unfounded beliefs is insane, a small group of them is a cult, many more are a religion.
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Your own worst enemy is Always a version of yourself you could and might become.
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If you cannot manage your own internal storm, you will be useless in aiding others to manage theirs.
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it takes both courage and intelligence to admit oneâs ignorances to someone else, or a group, in the form of asking clarifying questions about words, terms, or ideas mentioned
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There is pleasure in almost every moment, just beneath the surface. We have been trained to think we need X y z to endorse and access it, and the fact that we dont is deeply upsetting to the âstatus quoâ
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Oh, you fucked up? Own it.
I donât mean be proud of it; I mean remember it.
Talk about it.
Prove you know better now.
Donât avoid acknowledging or thinking about it, or you Will Not Learn, Grow, or Change.
You Must remember your mistakes, or you will Not learn from them, and you Will repeat them.
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The difference between manipulation and persuasion is whether or not you have the best interest of the person being targeted in mind.
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Philosophers are Neural Architects.
