six years ago someone asked whether i thought people were fundamentally good or bad, and without skipping a beat i said “good! of course!”
☠️
it has been a * w i l d * r i d e * since then
Conversation
Replying to
how u feel bout dis
Quote Tweet
@meditationstuff uses the phrase "myopic selfish desperation" to talk about "evil" and i love it, so concisely descriptive; here i'm focusing on the myopia
meditationbook.page/#54
Show this thread
it’s the sort of thing I would have really respect at 3 am when I was 21 but can’t find much sympathy for now.
1
Show replies
Replying to
me: it takes me years to respond to new ideas
also me: *considers for 3 seconds* looking for an explanation of evil carries some implication that it exists, which is part of what im contesting here. trying to pin down the “true nature” of a person along a moral axis, however…
2
10
right, this is what the “evil is illusory” bit is getting at. different people are going to need / want to hold these ideas in different configurations at different times for different reasons
1
4
Show replies