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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
i think it’s even odds the causality goes the other way: the stuff you joke about is presciently intuitively anticipating the way your reality is headed. i don’t think you can “force” the joking in whatever direction you want, i think the jokes will feel staler
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Visa ✈️ SF (Aug 2-14)
@visakanv
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the stuff you joke about (even ironically or whatever) has a way of shaping your reality so be careful and deliberate with that stuff. a lot of people out here fumbling their own bags by joking about outcomes they don’t want. you might as well joke about the outcomes you do want
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
causality is weird. when you do some kind of magical / intention-based / will-based practice to change the course of your life, are you actually causally influencing the future or just coming into better alignment with the future that’s already happening? i genuinely dunno
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sadals🪐🔮d
@sadalsvvd
on the one hand see QT, on the other my current view is that due to the order of karma there are certain events, conditions, people we WILL encounter. everything else is ostensibly within our control, and Hindu and Chinese astrologies both imply it
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sadals🪐🔮d
@sadalsvvd
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astrology supports metaphysical models for both free will, determinism, and something in-between. any line drawn in the sand ultimately exists within the astrologer, not the astrology
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sadals🪐🔮d
@sadalsvvd
but both imply it is extremely difficult to change one's karma. that is distinct from free will, unless you also consider the personality a karma. Gurdjieff for instance believes that free will can be developed but that 99.999% of people don't have it
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sadals🪐🔮d
@sadalsvvd
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have been reading P. D. Ouspensky's In Search of the Miraculous, his account of his encounter with Gurdjieff and later understanding of the esoteric usages of the enneagram will post interesting highlights, starting with this. G was (mostly) a strict astrological determinist
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sadals🪐🔮d
@sadalsvvd
instead they are prone to the many astrological influences upon them, and the only true will we have is to develop the ability to choose WHICH influences to use at any given time, as we are not able to act truly independently I constantly vacillate in this continuum
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sadals🪐🔮d
@sadalsvvd
things get more fucked when you consider the nature of things like retrocausality and the subjectivity of time and all that implies about free will as well generally I describe reality as "determinism with benefits", because for many, I bet it is
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sadals🪐🔮d
@sadalsvvd
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we know that no law of physics except entropy indicates any directionality of time; all others work both backwards too but what if it is possible to send heat (entropy/energy) backwards through time and space perhaps psi can be considered be a form of heat discharge/entropy?
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