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    1.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 9 Nov 2020

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      36/ Self authorship is self annihilation.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1325356406598377472?s=20 …

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      "There isn't a self to improve." often misleads. There IS a self to improve. It's just that this self is a CHARACTER. It's like an unhappy manga artist giving her character a better power in an attempt to be a happy manga artist.
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    2.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 11 Nov 2020

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      37/ Drunk summary of Gateless Gatecrashers. 21 people see that enlightenment is not a thing.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1326086748909129728?s=20 …

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      A bad lip reading of the book Gateless Gatecrashers. Intro: Ilona(I) and Elena(E) convince 21 people they are not real despite their intellectual conviction that they already don't exist. Also done in a nice way unlike Jed McKenna's mean way.
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    3.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 19 Nov 2020

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      38/ Cynical enlightenment quoteshttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1329310154630696960?s=20 …

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      Follow up. Even *more* unnecessarily mean things from Jed McKenna: https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1328968595833987072 …
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    4.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 28 Nov 2020

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      39/ Manifestation as reality. Individual perspective as a cartesian/polar/etc... overlay.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1331224017479450625?s=20 …

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      The manifestation vacuum concept for example is a useful rationality <-> post-rationality bridge. Manifestation: If reality has enough information so that something happens somewhere, then that thing happens. Reality *is* just a bunch of info calculation done by atoms bumping
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    5.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 28 Nov 2020

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      40/ Conversations around moneyhttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1332359547277570048 …

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      “How much is fuck-u money?” “Well you can be a hobo and still say fuck- u” “1 million?” “Like I said it’s not an external number but an internal state of..” “2 million??” “R u even listeni..” “3 million??!!” “Ok... fuck. you.” “1 billion??!!” - On Reaching Final Exalted States
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    6.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 28 Nov 2020

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      41/ Ark of gold, haven vs crisis assets.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1332588817304363010?s=20 …

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      My favorite model of money is as tokenized human energy. Gold is very special in that it's a form of tokenized energy that issued from the Bank of God.
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    7.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 9 Dec 2020

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      42/ Arbitrary stratification allows one group to enjoy their unearned privilege and the other group to dream about enjoying unearned privilege.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1333173307193978880 …

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      It’s quite possible that lower caste people *like* caste systems. Here’s an example: First take the word “caste system” and blur its normal association (e.g. Indian ‘Untouchables’, slavery, etc...) by combining it with European aristocracy.
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    8.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 9 Dec 2020

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      43/ This seems to have resonated with people... It's all downhill from here.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1333339180601020416?s=20 …

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      An addiction to knowledge develops when the child is first made to feel that “my feelings don’t matter.” The coping mechanism becomes a variation on “I will make my thoughts Important.”
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    9.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 9 Dec 2020

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      44/ Book highlights on cat philosophyhttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1334050734262808576 …

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      Stop recommending me this book, it's full of obvious platitudes. pic.twitter.com/5SQlK4zPO8
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    10.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 9 Dec 2020

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      45/ Your primary hierarchy of value is the one that makes you feel humble rather than anxious.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1335917596118458369?s=20 …

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      You exist in many hierarchies of value and mostly know where you stand in each of them. E.g. wealth, smarts, strength, creativity, popularity, etc... But for self-knowledge, it's *crucial* that you also know what your "main" hierarchy of value is.
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       🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 9 Dec 2020

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      46/ Your Necronomicon is the past you drag around.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1336209555940753408?s=20 …

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      Not only is this constant judgement, criticism, and wishing a drag but deep down the Author also *DOESN'T* want to finish the story. (since it ends in death) MLUUN is the original Necronomicon. It is the book of the dead, the book of the past.
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        1.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 9 Dec 2020

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          47/ Neither you nor anyone you now has ever chopped wood or carried water and if you have done so, it was most likely some sort of camping novelty thing that was fun.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1336365177084596224?s=20 …

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          “Chop wood, carry water” is the equivalent to many religious folk repeating their old metaphorical stories instead of rooting their lesson in the present.
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        2.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 9 Dec 2020

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          48/ Yin/Yang release casts Chibaku Tenseihttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1336439366881722368?s=20 …

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          In systems where ♀ and ♂ are highly polarized, the social structure is very simple and legible. ♂ is not allowed to run away from dirty/dangerous problems. ♀ is not allowed to face dirty/dangerous problems. https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1335500792762048512 …
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        3.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 9 Dec 2020

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          49/ Jerks are people toohttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1336532186430722050?s=20 …

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          Few understand the logical conclusion of "No Brilliant Jerks" It means that it would be preferable for the company to go bankrupt rather than have bad working environments.
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        4.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 9 Dec 2020

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          50/ Every way is a spiritual war over the End of Knowledgehttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1336552708405260289?s=20 …

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          Every war is a spiritual war. Any other kind of conflict is just problem solving. This is because there are 2 fundamentally irreconcilable interpretations of what The End of Knowledge actually IS. https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1333339180601020416 …
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        5.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Dec 31

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          51/ A story that ends without a conclusion is a shattered story.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1336943369289834496?s=20 …

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          A potentially overlooked contributor to everyone feeling lonely and depressed at home is obvious how much of your job is bullshit and fake. Your job is like the security guard standing around just-in-case.
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        6.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Dec 31

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          52/ Once a dog, always a dog.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1338901743409610752?s=20 …

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          Academics turned entrepreneurs are a red flag IMO. The need for status becomes a habit that’s very hard to shake. Being a C student and having shaken off this need is better.
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        7.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Dec 31

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          53/ I am a boxhttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1339052587396567040?s=20 …

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          @threadapalooza 2020 On Boxes 1/ I used to live at a monastery for a period of a few years. They always left out food for me so I guess they assumed I was a god or something. I'd never let anyone else have *my* food.
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        8.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Dec 31

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          54/ Strategy should suit the temperamenthttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1339803534443696128?s=20 …

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          Trading strategy should adapt to personal temperament on the tech adoption curve. If you're always buying high and selling low, maybe you're not as cutting edge as you think you are in that domain. pic.twitter.com/NhNlIMjCnA
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        9.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Dec 31

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          55/ Explanation of enlightenment as simultaneous existence/non-existence.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1340448823630471169?s=20 …

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          u know how jed mckenna says that enlightened beings can't technically exist yet still he IS what that word refers to? it's not an intentionally coy riddle, he's just saying that he IS a fictional character. https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1340038265584250881 …
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        10.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Dec 31

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          56/ Trust as a way to avoid gluttony.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1340751953047867392?s=20 …

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          THE experience that can unravel this isn't a sudden magical coalescing insight that ascends you into the light. It's the much more mundane "I'm not in control" feeling that can be achieved just by examining how breath works. (breath is conscious & subconscious)
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        11.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Dec 31

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          57/ A master magician sees no magic in the world.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1340904816613048323?s=20 …

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          The more the 'magic' of a metaphor can be parsed, the more concrete the action that results. "Leveling up" ironically is about *reducing* the amount of magic in the world b/c you can do more stuff yourself rather than watch in awe as other people do it.
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        12.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Dec 31

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          58/ Opportunity to buy is part of the price.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1341269410686726144?s=20 …

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          If you needed a GPS to locate you in the desert to save your life and a magical genie appears and offers to sell you one for 100K dollars, would you be grateful or angry? In a free market, the opportunity to buy is priced into the good!
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        13.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Dec 31

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          59/ Creativity SUCKShttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1341631276520886273?s=20 …

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          Now everyone can work hard and be successful as a creative artist expressing the Fundamental Truth of Life. Just like Avicii! You have *no idea* how happy the big music labels and tech companies are to have so much fresh blood.
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        14.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Dec 31

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          60/ Narcissism as ignorance of Godhttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1341959272666546177?s=20 …

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          In a narcissistic interaction, one is always trying to "eat" the other. Failure to do so creates tension and stress fractures in the model of godhood. If a narcissist can control or change you, you will be loved the same way God loves all of creation. If not, you will be hated.
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        15.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Dec 31

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          61/ Innovation hopefully cancels the Midas Effect of turning the whole world into money.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1342011193804767233?s=20 …

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          the reason innovation is so important to the market is because money is intrinsically destructive. It boomerangs outwards, changes more of the world into money, and comes back with a Reasonable Rate of Return.
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        16.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Dec 31

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          62/ Life is a God's beautiful cope.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1342182904789565441?s=20 …

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          This model leads to some interesting new ways of looking at world. One is that imperfect guru's can be understood. Alan Watts as an alcoholic, spiritual pride, spiritual fakeness, etc... "Cope" no longer has negative valence because Life as Cope is THE super cope of all copes.
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        17.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Dec 31

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          63/ Feeling "Self as Story"https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1342416376963584000?s=20 …

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          There are two ways to grasp Self lightly as one lightly grasps a baby bird in mouth. (to save it! not eat it) One is through the visceral feeling of self as story. (Not merely intellectual parsing and interpretation) https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1340038265584250881 …
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        18.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Dec 31

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          64/ Transcription of a solution to the hard problem of consciousness by Peter Russellhttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1342600220941590528?s=20 …

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          2020 Christmas Present from 🐈 is a formatted and highlighted transcription of this physicist's video on a solution to the hard problem of consciousness. sat through video at half speed editing google's auto transcription.😾 https://bit.ly/3rudBli  https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1342372516971511808 …
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        19.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Dec 31

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          65/ Explaining the mechanism of prayer.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1342732736130285568?s=20 …

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          Here's how belief in God creates humility and why prayer can create miracles: When you pray to an omniscient all-powerful God to whom all of his creation is Good you must first convince the God that there IS a problem.
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        20.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Dec 31

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          66/ Religion/Science synergyhttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1342918816804663296?s=20 …

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          Incidentally, this is how science and religion work together. Science stretches the boundaries of the known which increases the size of "God". The sense of "God" first starts off within the family, say w/ the "Strict Father", then becomes sth like Zeus, Monotheism, etc... https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1342732738973986818 …
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        21.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Dec 31

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          67/ Every cat is the same cathttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1343323489990713344?s=20 …

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          Since the fungal networks that make-up the Wood Wide Web have only recently become public knowledge I feel I must explain the phenomenon of toxoplasma gondii and felis catus as they operate via a similar mechanism. https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1343313049516531712 …
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        22.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Dec 31

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          68/ Secrets vs Hacks. Faith as a necessity for the secrets in plain sight.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1343618072402247680 …

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          Example of Faith -> Secrets Even the best portfolio strategies can lose a significant chunk of their value when backtested over time. Even when they have the potential to turns thousands to millions over time.
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        23.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Dec 31

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          69/ Oversimplifying the Gitahttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1344423780937039878?s=20 …

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          Respectively the arguments come out as: 1/ "Life is a drama" 2/ "Play your part." 3/ "Don't break character." 4/ "Follow the script." 5/ "There's only ONE show."
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        24.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Dec 31

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          70/ Original Sin 2.0https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1344727244451639296?s=20 …

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          Here's an alternative interpretation of Original Sin for those who dislike the common reading. The main drawbacks to Original Sin as interpreted by Abrahamic religions are: 1/ It controls by generating guilt/shame/fear 2/ Requires a wrathful God 3/ Which makes "God" masculine
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        25.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Dec 31

          ======== 2020 END ==========

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