Tokenized discrete consciousness is always in the past. Maybe that’s why it’s possible to “feel” things that seem to predict the future. You’re watching sth happen, but you can “see the future” if you have direct access to the unconscious.
The easiest way to maintain an easy identity is to draw a line and cut off portions of the company. E.g. if I’m making the world a better place I stop inspecting where my meat comes from, where my garbage goes, or how my iphone is made. It’s just easier that way.
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I can also cut off large portions of my internal feelings. Sexuality is often a target. As are “demonic” feelings like murder, anger, etc... The “slicing” power of the hierarchy is used against the world and against the self, creating a violence infused reality.
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Nature and yin aspects are touchstones to reality. Things that are more “alive”. (God being actual reality itself which isn’t an actual thing to be touched like a tree.)
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When something is “alive” it staves off boredom. We don’t get bored of pets despite them being fairly predictable in how they react to most things.
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Same for online games. We can play them over and over again despite them looking the same from an outside view.
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From an internal view, the game is about improvement. It’s about bringing about aliveness in the self, not by adding via the environment. It can really improve certain things like reaction speed, teamwork, performing under pressure, etc..
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but they can also be like drugs. You’re chasing an “aliveness” that the artificial reality won’t be able to provide. Heroin for example is technically a “peak experience”.
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Within this model boredom is a very interesting emotion. It’s a kind of anxiety. Like hiring a contractor for 200 per hour for a day and running out of stuff to do. There’s a pressure to “keep busy” to avoid feeling the constant leakage of life energy.
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The younger someone is the more overall life energy they have. Like a hot pot in a cold environment the leakage is greater and so the boredom impetus is much higher.
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There’s more desire to “transform” because there isn’t a CEO yet. Just 1 or 2 or 3 founders and a bunch of daemons. Boredom is an aversion to self, a desire for a “better” identity.
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