describe a quiet epiphany you had once
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That *frequent* epiphanies are usually a sign of confusion rather than enlightenment.
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Step 1: I'm not sending my 5 year old to in-person school this year.
Step 2: Distance-learning is gonna be a mess; we'll do it ourselves this year.
Step 3: Gotta read up on homeschooling strategies and methods
**Quiet epiphany**:We're probably never sending our girls to school.
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fuck yeah. school sucks ass. i was homeschooled and it's probably the childrearing decision i'm most grateful for.
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Once you understand more about people & life than most novelists & screenwriters do, you won't learn much more about people or life from reading good-but-not-great novels or watching good-but-not-great TV or movies.
Fiction has diminishing marginal returns above a certain age.
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A lot of the things that you feel like you should do because of other people’s expectations actually don’t matter that much to those people, but they affect you greatly. Thus it’s better to do what you really want, & people who care about you will understand and be happy for you.
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Humans dancing in clubs trying to impress each other are no different from those birds of paradise that have perfected elaborate and stupid mating dances
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I was kind of blown away the first time I realized that humans never interact directly with the world and that our visual images and sensory experiences are wholly products of our brains (based on data from the real world detected by our sense organs).
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Had an hours-long conversation tonight with someone on this precise thing, except in terms of Berkeleian idealism. It was brilliant to see someone unfamiliar w/ him seriously bash their head against Berkeley. Thinking deeply about perception really does feel like an epiphany.
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Some particular day, perhaps today, will be the happiest day of the rest of my life. At the time I will have no idea. It might not even feel like a particularly great day. What a tragedy it would be to not have savored the moments of sweetness.
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