For the sake of viewpoint diversity / productively critical clash of ideas:
The #SobSquad movement falls into "most disagree + I don't yet have an argument which stands up to their criticism + maybe they know something important".https://twitter.com/QiaochuYuan/status/1204669821859713024 …
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I have tons of questions about it which'd be cool to hammer out. Like: -For traumatised adults only, or would children get value? -For all hang-ups, or mainly social ones? (Food hang-ups, spider fears?) -Is it the only way to get desired effects? -Do you REALLY not suffer‽ -etc
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Salient issues: ▪︎ Can one experience negative emotions without suffering? (If not, what the heck are emotions?) ▪︎ Seems really good to not say to people "your emotions are bad, don't have them". ▪︎ Emotions may be more like physical sensations than ideas‽
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@Malcolm_Ocean@QiaochuYuan@Aryeh___ (I would also accept a rap battle.)1 reply 0 retweets 16 likesShow this thread -
Things I'd need to answer: ▸ What the heck is happening when someone cries a bunch and then something releases and it feels good after and traumas appear cleared out? ▸ Is crying from being moved by beauty bad‽ If so, why? ▸ Mourning? ▸ How else do you solve deep trauma?
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Replying to @reasonisfun
This thread is touching me: It is as if you are sincerely noticing *for the first time* that it is not important that our emotions are pleasant, but that our emotions are accurate. Our emotions are not a reward system, they are senses that allow us to experience our reality.
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Replying to @Plinz
My view is a bit different, I think: I've never (explicitly) thought emotions are a reward system. Rather, negative emotions are bad because there's something bad going on. My question is whether that bad thing is happening on a meta level or object level, or multiple.
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I don’t think that life is supposed to be happy. Life is supposed to be meaningful. Whether we are happy depends on circumstances we cannot control: our preferences may not come true despite our best efforts. From a larger perspective, even traumatic things may be necessary.
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