Follow up. Even *more* unnecessarily mean things from Jed McKenna:https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1328968595833987072 …
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"Those who have slipped their chains may be more effectively confined yet, thinking themselves free merely because their cell is larger and others are less free. Thinking themselves free, they don’t seek Freedom."
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"dreams are highly flammable things and suggest that you ask yourself, really ask yourself, why you’re reading books about setting your world on fire."
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"What is the difference between a man going to a bar for a glass of beer, and a man going to a temple and repeating the name of Rama? I don’t see any basic difference."
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"I’m not a counselor or a mentor. I’m not interested in helping anyone feel better. I’m no one’s friend. I dwell in an infinite pitiless void. Or, to state it more accurately, I am an infinite pitiless void. That’s my reality. I’m not a nice guy, I just play one."
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"but by then ego will have seized upon it like white blood cells swarming an invasive microbe that threatens the organism, and tonight’s penetrating insights will be tomorrow’s mildly interesting spiritual anecdote."
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"If you think about the qualities you’d like to possess—unconditional love, loyalty, devotion, unwavering friendship, forgiveness, selflessness, sincerity, being fully present in the moment —qualities we uphold as the loftiest ideals they look very much like, you know, A GOOD DOG
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"Opinions! Jesus, where did I get all those idiotic opinions? I wore them like a little girl wears her mother’s make-up and costume jewelry. “Look at me! I have a unique opinion! Look at my wonderful opinion! Look how special I am! I’ll admire yours if you admire mine!”
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"These are my demons, but they weren’t demons when I let them in, they were cuddly little bundles of warmth and happiness and safety. But now that I want to get to the heart of things, they are tenacious little monsters and each must be ruthlessly slain."
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"Our primary method for understanding life, is really our way of walling ourselves off from it. We translate the world into our artificial language of symbols and concepts in order to avoid knowing it directly."
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"This isn’t how you surrender the self, this is how you abandon it; abdicate responsibility for your own life. I understand this can be a very tempting response to a very perplexing challenge."
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"You’re clinging desperately to your lies; shielding them with emotional energy. Why? Because these lies are you. They are who you are. You don’t have imperfections, you ARE imperfections."
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"You want a friend? A companion? Let death be your companion. That’s the one thing you really have, the one thing that’s really yours, that no one can take away.”
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"There was never any chance of making a difference because you were as much an illusion as the rest of it." "Some things may be true within the context of a story, but the story itself is a false context."
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"This desert may be fake, but it's where you are. Your character may be a fiction, but it's who you are." "Reality must be real since it's in the name, but reality is not true. There is no truality."
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"As with a dream, you can observe, participate and interpret, but not understand." "What if you're a zombie right now, and believing you're not is just one of the symptoms?"
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