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    1.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 20 Jun 2020

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      16/ Making enemies wisely. https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1274478268708605953?s=21 …https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1274478268708605953 …

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      “Should” is self-defeating as it defines an enemy too sharply and gives it definition. It creates coherence not to understand but to form a target to attack.
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    2.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 21 Jun 2020

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      17/ A beginner's mind is to live by what you die by.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1274598369617297413 …

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      Whatever you live by, is what you'll die by. If it can't kill you, then you can't really live. Obviously a sword works. But try something else.
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    3.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 21 Jun 2020

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      18/ Why the pokemon world is the only successful utopia we’ve imagined. https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1274609271968129024?s=21 …https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1274609271968129024 …

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      Pokemon teaches the joy of being to live in a mysterious world where everyone can be unlocking the mysteries of the universe all the time and still be optimistic about the future enough to have children.
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    4.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 21 Jun 2020

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      19/ Narcissistic Evil Babieshttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1274613387620564993?s=20 …

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      What does being humble feel like. Babies literally are born thinking the whole world is them. Even today my world revolves around and has revolved around me. By definition there’s no way I can create my world w/o using me as the method of creation.
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    5.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 21 Jun 2020

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      20/ Gurus, "Gurus", and salespeople.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1274614970156609536?s=20 …

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      The difference between a guru and "guru" is this. A cult leader or "guru" offers you fire from which you light your torch. A guru tells you his light is worthless and that you must find your own. One radiates and has no interest in being helped or to help. The other burns.
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    6.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 22 Jun 2020

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      21/ "Cheating" and China.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1275106966038142983?s=20 …

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      By destroying almost all of it though there is no longer any sense of the sacred left. Just status chasing and consumerism. The only sense of the 'sacred' left is a strong belief that you should have children which IMO is just a leftover cultural script from birthing soldiers.
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    7.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 23 Jun 2020

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      22/ Identity and determinism.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1275504145957482496?s=20 …

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      People are like sponges, soaking up whatever they surround themselves with. Being 'full' of stuff already prevents being affected by the environment. Strong identities are formed when the environment is considered hostile.
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    8.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 24 Jun 2020

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      23/ Ego is an evil high-tech alien machinehttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1276033784798777345?s=20 …

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      The God machine increases the legibility of the system and so increases inefficiency by forcing every function to route under a central system. The system feels very tentacle-like.
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    9.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 29 Jun 2020

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      24/ Parkinson's law and the importance of being able to recognize and differentiate 'work' and 'play' states.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1277510613564973056?s=20 …

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      Work and play mutually enrich each other _because_ they are separate. When that boundary is broken work takes over everything. You try applying your 'play' to work e.g. 'following your passion' but all that does it turn your passion into work.
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    10.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 4 Jul 2020

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      25/ Faith is the ultinate mental model to wield. https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1279338528015437825?s=21 …https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1279338528015437825 …

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      Collect mental models so that you can see everything from every point of view. If there’s something you can’t see with good intent, it indicates a gap in your knowledge.
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       🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 5 Jul 2020

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      26/ A Matrix is an environment that is set to continuously perpetuate a single identity.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1279482141777080320?s=20 …

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      A matrix is an ecosystem of actions that preserves an identity. E.g. a central hearing system wants to preserve an identity of a specific tenperature.
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        1.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 5 Jul 2020

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          27/ Cultures are different kaleidoscopes, full of different color palettes and shapes and mirrors. Each culture celebrates life in a different way. We all have the same god in that we all celebrate life. (except for death cults)https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1279582489086849029 …

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          Systems that don’t have enough anchors of symmetry for their volume of content don’t produce beautiful kalaeidiscope effects. Just glitter and sparkle explosions, one after the other until only smoke and fire remain.
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        2.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 7 Jul 2020

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          28/ Freedom is a loaded gun.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1280412877573087232?s=20 …

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          Freedom is dangerous precisely because it is never having to do work for anybody. Without these anchors of necessity you are no longer needed or necessary for the world.
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        3.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 8 Jul 2020

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          29/ The only true source of happiness doesn't look like happiness.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1280758936841273349?s=20 …

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          The loser who dies happy for the victor is the source of happiness. This Most Difficult of things to be happy about is actually the only True source of happiness. This is the source of a 'divine' or 'sacred' feeling.
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        4.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 8 Jul 2020

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          30/ The killing of gods bolsters the powers of men.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1280775734915559424?s=20 …

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          When you kill god you increase the pressure on kings to ridiculous extents. Being cursed to be human yet having to be lived up to as a god will inflate the ego and self-deception powers of anyone just as a pufferfish expands when danger is close.
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        5.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 11 Jul 2020

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          31/ Game addiction is work addiction, not play addiction. https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1282033020845690881?s=21 …https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1282033020845690881 …

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          I suspect most video game addiction is not play addiction but work addiction. A sense of “I have to get better” situated within a social context with tangible measurable markers of progress.
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        6.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 13 Jul 2020

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          32/ Love is the spark between yin and yang and it’s purpose is to enjoy cake. https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1282571485454860289?s=21 …https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1282571485454860289 …

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          Misogyny probably arises from how a woman cannot directly make a man love himself. “He” sees “Her” as an obstacle in his quest for love.
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        7.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 13 Jul 2020

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          33/ A mob is an poor-man's corporation.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1282930971650609152?s=20 …

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          A corporation is similar to a mob. It's a vehicle with which to diffuse responsibility with and do what is normally impossible.
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        8.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 18 Jul 2020

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          34/ Learning as skillful application of consciousness. https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1284426073875210240?s=21 …https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1284426073875210240 …

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          Every difficult thing that takes time has a growth curve similar to body-building. Skill accumulation for piano, or understanding a subject, etc... all grow in the same way you build muscle.
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        9.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 20 Jul 2020

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          35/ Thoughts on what it means to "be your own worst enemy"https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1285262734389469189?s=20 …

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          "You are your own worst enemy" is the spiritual equivalent of the modern "You have ADD/Depression/some other mental disorder." Regardless of why the wolf is in your mind, the wolf is always in _your_ mind.
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        10.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 20 Jul 2020

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          36/ How power is derived entirely from relationships and conditional on being in the right.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1285423972805308417?s=20 …

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          Power within a company is similar to a plant or pet you raise for many years. The importance and influence over your life is specific to your relationship with the thing, not intrinsic to the thing itself. No one else cares about your plant.
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        11.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 25 Jul 2020

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          37/ Love as the source of all magic.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1285850394283765760?s=20 …

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          The love spell is important because having it cast on you is the only way to fill up your MP. Without it, there is no magic in the world.
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        12.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 25 Jul 2020

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          38/ Why the rich are actually shining knights on the front lines fighting for us. sorta.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1285486653797068801?s=20 …

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          It seems quite ridiculous to economically have poorer people suffer first. It's like sending in the meat-shield before the knights. It's something you do only to slaves. Whoever suffers first has early insight into the problem.
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        13.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 25 Jul 2020

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          39/ Not my thoughts but chaining here anyway. Quotes from a book that makes me suspect I have ADD. Along with possibly most millennials.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1287272314615160832?s=20 …

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          Signs of ADD/ADHD, taken from "Scattered Minds" by Dr. Gabor Mate:
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        14.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 1 Aug 2020

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          40/Why having high sensitivity to predict the future like an oracle *isn't* a superpower.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1288879639792820231?s=20 …

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          The reason canaries are brought into the coal mine is not so they can fix the problem... Their job is to die.
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        15.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 1 Aug 2020

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          41/ The source of all anxiety explained through a God vs Death analogy.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1289112915098787841?s=20 …

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          Most of us don't know where death is. We're afraid to face it and so life life constantly on the lookout for it. That is the price paid for cowardice.
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        16.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 1 Aug 2020

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          42/ Millennials need infinite real-ness because of infinite fakeness. Any infinite need is going to come across as entitled.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1289253487016960002?s=20 …

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          The entitled millenial trope seems tied to the death of religion. Infinite participation trophies was a stand-in for the loss of infinite love. This source of infinite fake-ness created an existential need and thirst for infinite real-ness.
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        17.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 1 Aug 2020

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          43/ Meditation is like spending time with a child. The time is valuable in proportion to the importance of whatever alternative thing was sacrificed.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1289476784874876928?s=20 …

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          Meditating has to be consciously chosen over something else. It can't be something to do to pass the time like while on a train or before going to sleep.
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        18.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 9 Aug 2020

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          44/ Conscious experience is necessarily narcissistic.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1290769370570846209?s=20 …

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          Every experience is by necessity self-centered. An “I” is necessary for experience just as an eye is necessary for sight.
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        19.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 9 Aug 2020

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          45/ Emphasizing w/ bullies by realizing that we've all experienced what it feels like at the other end (we just didn't know that we were being experienced as bullies)https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1291298386075779073?s=20 …

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          This is the bully mentality. It’s one of the greatest feelings you can have. Especially for the competitive.
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        20.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 9 Aug 2020

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          46/ When protocols masquerade as cultures, they drain worlds of their life energy.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1292383490940399616?s=20 …

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          The problem with the king of fluid cultures, protocol-ization, is that it's soulless and cold and hierarchical. It has no boundaries, no sense of "enough". This infinite hunger arises out of lack of stomach, not a big stomach. It creates the culture of "elite".
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        21.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 28 Aug 2020

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          47/ Quotes from "Running on Empty" a book about emotional neglect and its effects in adulthood.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1298825577772675074?s=20 …

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          "She tried to make the numbness and emptiness go away by watching an old show. It didn’t work, so she lay down on her sofa and started to imagine being dead, since that usually helped. This time, it didn’t seem to work, and instead the emptiness and pain just got more intense".
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        22.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 28 Aug 2020

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          48/ You ego hates you because it's your banished imaginary friend.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1297809242624204800 …

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          So... give your imaginary friend a call ... To talk about the old days.
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        23.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 28 Aug 2020

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          49/ Power is about what you can discuss without discussing it.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1296860372666744832?s=20 …

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          Power is never discussed openly. The new head PM for example will only openly discuss his or her love of hard problems, teamwork, and respect for creators and engineers. Not his or her network of people and favors and ability to reach out and connect.
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        24.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 28 Aug 2020

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          50/ Truly understanding the concept of god is just as beneficial as believing in god.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1296736524327780354?s=20 …

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          The concept of god can be just as useful as believing in god. It may in fact be possible to understand the concept of god in such a way so that it is equivalent to believing in god. Here goes:
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        25.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 28 Aug 2020

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          51/ Something about mastery and balance. Was pretty high for this one.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1296006074969931778?s=20 …

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          Every ounce of energy of being should be directed towards making 'this moment' for you more beautiful. In fact, every ounce of energy IS doing this.
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        26.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 28 Aug 2020

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          52/ Capitalism is what stops us from tearing each other apart.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1297727501825748994?s=20 …

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          Capitalism is like putting rubber bands around the claws of crabs in a bucket. It’s to stop us from pulling each other down.
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