You consistently have compelling and thoughtful tweets. You raise the bar on the entire medium. While we are not in identical places epistemologically, you often pull me into our joint humanity. Thank you my friend.
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Thank you Pat.
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At 65, I have been observing this for decades. I’m guessing this is a byproduct of modernity, industrialization and technology. Did our hunter-gatherer ancestors experience anything close to this illusion - given their challenges of mere survival? Did the brain go ever there?
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One could argue that our ancestors' brains went there with beliefs in an afterlife.
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How to break the illusion G?
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Post tweets about it, I guess.

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"It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living" - Eckhart Tolle
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Cynthia: God, don't you ever feel like everything we do and everything we've been taught is just to service the future? Tony: Yeah I know, like it's all preparation. Cynthia: Right. But what are we preparing ourselves for? Mike: Death. Tony: Life of the party. Mike: It's true.
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Cynthia: You know, but that's valid because if we are all gonna die anyway shouldn't we be enjoying ourselves now? You know, I'd like to quit thinking of the present, like right now, as some minor insignificant preamble to something else. -Dazed and Confused
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Gurwinder, this hits home and I understand how this can be damaging in the way that someone might "waste" their life waiting for that idyllic future but doesn't all human pursuit need something to look forward to, to keep going?
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I take it to mean that there is a certain mentality that one day it'll be "over" or you will reach a destination that allows you absolute fulfillment. In reality, you will always have problems and be req'd to overcome them.
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