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spirituality for me also seems tightly bound to psychology even though from usage they are separate fields. if i had to differentiate, mainstream 'psychology' is about how to adjust and cope to society while spirituality is about escaping it. acceptance vs freedom.

psychology attempts to use acceptance as the gateway to freedom while spirituality uses freedom as a gateway to acceptance.

this seems to jordan peterson's achilles heel. trying to force acceptance as a means of freedom doesn't work because it creates an extremely negative reaction from others that can kill you.

e.g. his personal sense of self as someone bravely doing the right thing has basically been shredded and murdered into burning hate devil man by popular rhetoric so while i empathize, i also keep the claw socks on to avoid nuclear level faux pas accidents.

(w/o postrationalism this is where i'd blame all the "stupid people" and imply but not directly say that they should be euthanized.)https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1316660458401812481 …

these domains seem to create a rock-paper-scissors loop dissatisfaction w/ authority leads to philosophy leads to rationalism leads to post-rationalism leads to religion leads to authority.

probably not right, but the point is you need to have a completed loop with ALL rock/paper/scissor/etc.. otherwise the game isn't a game. this loop of dissatisfaction is the 'life is suffering' idea that allows the Game to not be meaninglessly boring.

ignoring an aspect of reality just b/c it's negative is like saying "ok no one is allowed to use scissors anymore b/c cat claws are sharp." everyone ends up using paper extra hard b/c no idiot would use rock. then everyone screams whenever anything sharp appears in the world