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I've been trying to interview 'enlightened' people and it's so hard because people's relationship with that word is extremely fucky. People are like "yes i am basically everything described by enlightenment but no i'm not enlightened" and I *get* it but it makes this hard

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They are incredibly rare and generally not available for anything substantive to the merely curious.

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I'd be willing to talk to people who view enlightenment as "incredibly rare", even if they don't view themselves as that, as long as they feel they know clearly what that state entails/how it's defined/what it isn't.

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Like, the point of my project right now is to try to map out the different things people mean with that word, not to find the "correct" enlightenment.

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yes, I'm very familiar with this paper and at this point no longer consider it reliable

12:17 AM · Dec 11, 2019