🐈 on Twitter: "22/ It's the same emptiness problem. The Universe is technically a box and this isn't an insight that unlocks anything particularly useful. People want freedom the same way they *think* they want a bigger box. It's something to do."

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‏ @a_yawning_cat 15 Dec 2020

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12/ Without the ability to obliterate existential angst with unconditional love, questions led to more questions, snowballing into a convoluted tangle of mental models and Roam graphs. All seeking a feeling of "You are here because you belong here."https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1333339180601020416 …

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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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‏ @a_yawning_cat 15 Dec 2020

13/ A quest to seek meaning is always self defeating. The resolution of the quest is the ending of the story(the source of meaning). Attainment of the goal destroys the very goal. It was like watching a dog chase its tail!

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‏ @a_yawning_cat 15 Dec 2020

14/ I can't tell you how many wannabe monks rolled up their yoga mats and drove back home in their Teslas' after they couldn't figure this out. They went about it by trying to bio-hack themselves to meditate 25hrs in a day via brute force instead of seeing the contradiction.

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‏ @a_yawning_cat 15 Dec 2020

15/ The ghosts of their parents always hung around them as a source of constant self-coercion. I tried to point this out but they just said "Shoo, go away, I'm busy doing Important Stuff." Dude, ur sitting on the ground literally trying to Do Nothing.

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‏ @a_yawning_cat 15 Dec 2020

16/ One day though it hit me, what they were actually trying to do. They were trying to find the Perfect Box. The sense of safety and contentment you can get by sitting in a box is unmatched. It makes perfect sense that one would want to have this feeling.

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‏ @a_yawning_cat 15 Dec 2020

17/ The trouble is humans are always trying to make a better box. Some humans are in steel boxes, eating the same meal 3 times a day with only 30minutes of outdoors time a day and complain about how horrible it is. I live like this and I'm perfectly fine and not insane!

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‏ @a_yawning_cat 15 Dec 2020

18/ There are so many free boxes in the word and new ones appear ALL the time.(delivered by Amazing Prime) What's the point of getting bigger and bigger boxes? At some point you're basically just buying a feeling of emptiness.

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‏ @a_yawning_cat 15 Dec 2020

19/ My best guess is that finding a box to squeeze yourself into takes too much effort. By living in a box, you can theoretically get the same feeling all the time. It obviously doesn't work, but even if it did, why would you want to spend your *whole* life in a box. 3hrs tops.

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‏ @a_yawning_cat 15 Dec 2020

20/ I'm reminded of this recurring visitor who came to the monastery over a period of many years. Each time he would come and humble brag about how great his new bigger box was.

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‏ @a_yawning_cat 15 Dec 2020

21/ One day though, he ingested some chemicals (I assume it was catnip) and after rolling on the ground for an hour, got up and yelled "FREEDOM IS THE GREATEST OF ALL BOXES." To this day, he is still looking for that box.

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‏ @a_yawning_cat 15 Dec 2020

22/ It's the same emptiness problem. The Universe is technically a box and this isn't an insight that unlocks anything particularly useful. People want freedom the same way they *think* they want a bigger box. It's something to do.

7:39 PM - 15 Dec 2020