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Cherished? Don't know about that. Hand-crafted, delightful? Eh, maybe. Let's try this: All genuine systems of magic, superstition, shamanism are quasi-true, touching on some existential fundamentals, but most of the mechanistic and ontological assumptions attached are bullshit.

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Visa’s Vexing Vacillations

@visakanv

Jul 8, 2019

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Visa’s Vexing Vacillations

@visakanv

Jun 8, 2019

All crazy shit is true in *some* sense The challenge is to find the right sense w/o being taken in by the wrong sense The way to the right sense is on the other side of nonsense ~1% of people get some sense, everyone else trips up along the line makes no sense & perfect sense

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Command of fire predates an effective theory of combustion by millennia. Medicine predates germ theory, also by millennia. So, so many accidents and misunderstandings. I pretty much always have this framing in mind when dealing with mystics.

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@Triquetrea

Jul 8, 2019

Well, the whole "human brains as meaning-making machines independent of truth" thing seems like a mostly true, if sometimes misapplied, framing.

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