Assorted models of "Relating to Reality"pic.twitter.com/59KQJbVDd0
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The basic one. "Me" vs the "World". Sets up self as outside the world, an outside observer. Useful for a coldly analytical approach. Generates apathy.pic.twitter.com/qwDCzX4QmW
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There's no way to "contain" it b/c that would just create another background.pic.twitter.com/lQqiUKiDlN
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"There are too many motherfucking turtles in this motherfucking model"pic.twitter.com/t4mKDSclwU
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This one feels "kinder". At least "I" am part of the world now.pic.twitter.com/2ycPTFMawx
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Ok, as long as we have our God we have our Eden with all our friends.pic.twitter.com/izjkdLNjEo
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Ok, I'm sick of these games of thrones and holy inquisitions. Time to renounce the world.pic.twitter.com/4ia9v2gXP7
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But wait... everything arises *within* consciousness. So if "Self" is consciousness...pic.twitter.com/kCVj3tKz2f
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The world isn't contained though. Only my model of the world. The "World" is more like "Other". Something mysterious whose shape changes the more I know/unknow about it.pic.twitter.com/9G3Z1R9qbp
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The background is just there for stylistic purposes since drawing the yin/yang symbol requires a medium to draw on. Removing the background, mathematically the symbol is equivalent to:pic.twitter.com/nipv5XfIzU
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Hmm... with some minor adjustments the previous self/other model can become this. Make the world somewhat dynamic with a squiggly border. But where is self?pic.twitter.com/M0Qt3QoZIx
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If Self is the border then it's also a nice way of dissolving duality since the one squiggly line describes both the known and the unknown.pic.twitter.com/O0pBWHD5Xx
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Playing with this a bit more. If you want a solid sense of the divine and make God known and static, then you create a guarded heavenly world of Eden. The cost is that you create Hell as well. Humans are also squeezed out and forced into the roles of angel or demon.pic.twitter.com/umegtM5yF7
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Stripping it down into secular terms you have self as that which intermediates between the known and the unknown. (Note the overloading of the world "self")pic.twitter.com/zEeO1dH5OF
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So.. 1. A solid identity creates a heaven and a hell. 2. ("True") Self is neither known or unknown but both. It's the process that converts unknown to known. 3. but wait... what's this...if you look really carefully...pic.twitter.com/BkuzWXR7jD
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