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Human, student, non-Buddhist Buddhist, intellectual masochist. Confident only of my own ignorance. Don't believe anything I say.

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    1. Kenneth Folk‏ @KennethFolk May 6

      Hats theory does not imply that Nothing Matters™ or that Everything is the Same™. Something can matter very much within its sphere, and be a complete non-issue from another POV.

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    2. Kenneth Folk‏ @KennethFolk May 6

      Moral equivalency is just another hat.

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    3. Kenneth Folk‏ @KennethFolk May 6

      Hats theory does not insist that there is No Right Answer, but does raise the question of how you would know Truth if you tripped over it, given that your evaluation of Truth is filtered through your hat.

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    4. Kenneth Folk‏ @KennethFolk May 6

      It's OK to have a favorite hat.

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    5. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist May 8
      Replying to @KennethFolk

      This is my favorite hat.pic.twitter.com/LlQUBqMfG6

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    6. Kenneth Folk‏ @KennethFolk May 8
      Replying to @Failed_Buddhist

      Strong hat. Fuzzy hat. Serious hat. Whimsical hat. Respectable hat. Oppressed hat. Defiant hat. Oppressive hat. Big hat.

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    7. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist May 8
      Replying to @KennethFolk

      That's actually an incredibly compendious synopsis of everything this hat represents.

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    8. Kenneth Folk‏ @KennethFolk May 8
      Replying to @Failed_Buddhist

      Did my homework.

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    9. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist May 9
      Replying to @KennethFolk

      When you take time to understand hats that are radically different than any of the ones you've ever worn, you see that everyone else is just as convinced as you are that their hat is the most stylish.

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    10. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist May 9
      Replying to @Failed_Buddhist @KennethFolk

      They have the same exact body sensations that go along with certainty as you do; the only thing that's different is the thoughts they use to rationalize believing that a body sensation means anything other than a body sensation.

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      Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist May 9
      Replying to @Failed_Buddhist @KennethFolk

      Whether everything is relative, or whether any one hat is The One True Hat, is not even the point. It doesn't matter. What you do know is that Homo Sapiens are evolved to try to interpret their body sensations in whatever way will help them survive and reproduce.

      2:15 AM - 9 May 2018
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        2. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist May 9
          Replying to @Failed_Buddhist @KennethFolk

          There is no rational agent apart from this monkey brain, and the fact that anyone thinks that there is, goes to show just how good our brains are at getting us to believe that what we think about our sensations is what they actually are.

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        3. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist May 9
          Replying to @Failed_Buddhist @KennethFolk

          If you feel like you are a rational agent apart from your brain that is seeing and interpreting the world from a privileged position - even if you don't think of it explicitly within a dualist framework - you're not actually seeing your sensations clearly.

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        4. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist May 9
          Replying to @Failed_Buddhist @KennethFolk

          Because you still think that the physical sensation of certainty is anything other than a physical sensation - one that evolution took billions of years to create precisely for the purpose of fooling you into surviving and reproducing.

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        5. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist May 9
          Replying to @Failed_Buddhist @KennethFolk

          Your brain doesn't work for you, it works for your genome. And it created you for one purpose: to help this organism's genes replicate.

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        6. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist May 9
          Replying to @Failed_Buddhist @KennethFolk

          As it turns out, you're more effective at helping your genome replicate when you believe that you're running the show and don't ask any questions. So that's what evolution got you to do.

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        7. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist May 9
          Replying to @Failed_Buddhist @KennethFolk

          When you clearly see what your sensations are actually like - sans your interpretations of them - it become obvious that you've been played for a fool.

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        8. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist May 9
          Replying to @Failed_Buddhist @KennethFolk

          And when you see your sensations clearly and then immediately interpret them as the Ultimate Truth or One Mind or Non-Dual Light, then you've lost the plot.

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        9. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist May 9
          Replying to @Failed_Buddhist @KennethFolk

          You want to get good at seeing sensations as clearly as possible as often as possible - and eventually at trying on different hats, without forgetting that the comfortable sensation of wearing the hat isn't the same as the story you tell about how comfy/great/true the hat is.

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