@DevrajCallMeDev @TristanSevers Yup. But if you want to change minds, you mostly can’t just say “that’s dumb.”
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@TristanSevers On the other hand, coherent explanations aren’t likely to change dumb people’s minds either, so… time wasted
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@TristanSevers I started writing about “Buddhist ethics” because it seemed easy & I was too tired to do anything difficult -
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@TristanSevers and accepted that it was probably a waste of time. Now I’m dealing with a sunk cost fallacy, three weeks in…
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I may have to write a coherent attack on secular mindfulness before I can explain why it’s wrong, since the existing ones make no sense.
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“Yes, but ethics!” is not a cogent criticism of mindfulness. But ethics WHAT? No one seems to know, although they claim it’s super important
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@Meaningness I can never decide if rounding people off to the nearest informed opinion is doing them a service or a disservice. -
@TristanSevers The hard part is when there’s no coherent story in the general vicinity, just vague but strongly-held feelings. - 1 more reply
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