If you have beliefs - any beliefs whatsoever - they can be used to manipulate you. People see what they have been trained to see, not what is there.
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Or, by the same mechanism, you can use your beliefs to control the world
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Replying to @dthorson @euvieivanova
Or at least you can convince yourself that you are. They’re not “your” beliefs, you are a conduit of narrative, however enlightened that narrative is and however useful it is to believe that it’s “yours”
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That's how cults get started.
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Replying to @euvieivanova @cognazor
Interesting. I was thinking of a more chaos magick / tantric direction... Belief is inevitable. The problem is when we take them too seriously.
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I don't think belief has to be inevitable, depending on how much weight we give the term "belief." It's possible to have operative assumptions that aren't bound by strong ties of emotion and identity and to switch between these often. I wouldn't call those beliefs.
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I think it is important to distinguish between “gross” beliefs and “subtle” beliefs that aren’t tied to conventional emotions but that we are nevertheless still subjectively embedded in
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IMO those are still tied to conventional emotions, just very subtle and hard to detect ones. But if it's a belief, they're there. Maybe I'm just showing my definition... ;)
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Yes I think you are correct, fractal emotions all the way down!
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Turtles, man.
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Funny. I’m in Duolingo right now and it keeps hammering me with questions like “Cuales tortugas” and “Cuantas tortugas.”
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