the fucked up thing is that i can never stop spending time. there are no free actions. thinking about what to do is itself an action that consumes time. i need a pause button for reality so bad and i genuinely hate that i don’t have one
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what if you switched out “spend” and “consume” from your vocabulary in this domain
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i remember someone telling me something like this but i don’t at all understand what the alternative is
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you *are* time itself
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what if ego is a charismatic theory of time?
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but like,,, what does that actually mean
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tbh I sense if we get into this there’s like a >50% chance you’ll probably be annoyed and mad at me lol
if you pull the thread all the way it’s questions like what are you afraid of, so what if time passes, and we end up in the bagel of abandonment and death
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Iirc there’s a great quote about this in 4000 weeks? Time management for mortals? Lemme see…
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i have no idea what anyone means by this it just seems blatantly obviously false to me
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Come back in a year and I bet I can furnish a book chapter (a book?) explaining. Pardon the weirdness in the construction.
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For now: stories have space-times, and they don’t seem to work by linear or cyclical features of objective time. We make meaning by pulling together connections and casting others aside. A person/personhood is such a story.
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Something like “view it as a beautiful, scarce resource that you’re lucky enough to have some of” rather than “an ever tightening noose hastening you toward your inevitable demise” - functionally quite similar, but these two lenses animate one in very different ways.