In order for something to get lost in translation, someone has to be listening. It's often easier to pretend to be listening.
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Translation requires equivalent concepts on the other side. For instance, a statement like "animists believe that everything in the universe is alive and conscious" would be nonsensical, because it would imply that animists cannot distinguish dead and unconscious people.
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Exactly the reaction I got reading zen and daoist texts for the first time. Just a gut feeling from seeing them describe it, that they have it all figured out and now it's on me to parse it (it being deliberately vague).
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It’s like trying to play a game of telephone but instead of words it’s differential equations and none of the people are mathematicians. I guess that’s why people like Buddha and Jesus ended up teaching simple mantras…which might have lasted longer but got just as misunderstood.
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Possibly not too much, I have been trying to make my brother understand that he shouldn't yell at our mother with no avail. Can't imagine how difficult could be transmitting a transcendental idea
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I feel like this about most things people tell me
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I get the sense you're assuming most people optimize to get the basic questions right. Most people optimize for short term rewards while remaining respected.
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There are, occasionally, flits of discomfort of realizing their optimization method will be interrupted by mortality, causing them to shop for the belief system that is a suitable substitute to alcohol.
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"nature of meaning, consciousness, self" - it's not in the intersubjective. There's no reliable way to transmit that understanding. Even assuming there's "right" in those questions.
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