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    1.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 19

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      main difference between china and us culturally is their concept of god. whether or not it is possible for someone to be "above some law" vs "above THE law"https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1370927944458113025?s=20 …

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      chinese governance is likely far more rooted in chinese culture than communist ideology. communism was the equivalent of wokeness. a well known moral supremacy framework to mobilize the masses. the end result though always reflects the culture of those who end up in charge.
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    2.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 19

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      the half life of desirehttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1371503300726591488?s=20 …

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      consumption is the bottleneck of a modern economy’s economic flow. pay and desire control this demand. however, there’s now a third parameter:
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    3.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 19

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      the heroic (egoic) vision of self is like a market bubble.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1371512789089480706?s=20 …

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      but its weakness is that you can crash. if your heroic vision of self becomes too out of hand, the entire vision pops and collapses and enter a depressive spiral. you psychological credit score is too low and ur brain won’t allow you to project heroic visions anymore
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    4.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 19

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      a market crash is similar to the long period of loneliness after a separation. the story pops and the price freefalls until saved by someone who *does* see value.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1371958828166565889?s=20 …

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      many people stay in relationships the same way market bubble crashes work. when the price of a stock "crashes" its heroic story pops and it goes into free-fall until someone shouts "I SEE YOU & I LOVE YOU" and buys, thus catching the fall. https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1371512789089480706 …
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    5.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 19

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      anthony de mello quotes A https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1372082964033544194?s=20 … Bhttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1372213543177580547?s=20 …

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      Part II https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1372082964033544194 …
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    6.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 19

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      "i am meow"https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1372265445395292160?s=20 …

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      there is an ancient saying amongst my people: “i am meow, i am meow, i am meow.” roughly translated it says “two cats cannot give each other hand jobs”
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    7.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 19

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      america is like the avengers except they refuse to assemblehttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1372449494134976516?s=20 …

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      the biggest us export is its companies. but these companies are so private that they don't contribute to the power of the central governing entity (http://www.obela.org/system/files/GVC%20US%20missing%20exports.pdf …) pic.twitter.com/nhE2hut7Wf
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    8.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 19

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      RNA as reactive information, like the distribution of money and cashflows.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1372584553689149440?s=20 …

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      capital is lik DNA, inert. money is like RNA, a representative of DNA encoding the same information that can act as a catalyst producing real world effects. factories and stuff are like proteins. they do the 'real' work. but everything is coordinated by DNA/RNA
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    9.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 19

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      summary of "Act of Creation"https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1372611866887819269?s=20 …

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      don't want to oversimplify koestler's book act of creation too much but 'ideas can date and have sex' seems to cover it. https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/05/20/arthur-koestler-creativity-bisociation/#posts:~:text=term%20bisociation …
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    10.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 31

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      seeing "victims" in authoritarian states is a self-serving narrative. most common side-effect is toppling a tyrant to be replaced with an inept tyrant. (conveniently, the ineptitude can be taken advantage of)https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1373642788227616768?s=20 …

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      unlike commonly held belief, authoritarian systems are not composed of sheep capstoned by a minority of tyrants. it's a recursive structure of repressed resentment as everyone waits their turn to BE the tyrant
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       🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 31

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      rationalism is a tool, not a moral philosophyhttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1374047857703940096?s=20 …

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      rationality as a core virtue is problematic b/c it requires calculation. a finished calculation isn't possible except for toy problems or stripping the world into caricatures. rationality thus requires analysis which is correlated with IQ which is 'unevenly distributed'
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        1.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 31

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          quotes on social class (labor/money interestingness/culture elites/power)https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1374050574333669377?s=20 …

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          Assorted quotes: https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1374039737544056834 …
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        2.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 31

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          men are from mars, women are from venus, cats were on earth first so gtfohttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1374235713617620994?s=20 …

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          i am told that when the hooman male tells the hooman female "i need love in my life i can't find it" she immediately recoils and retorts "well being lost together won't really help will it" and runs away
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        3.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 31

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          if u stop at "o lol lol desiring to not desire is like, a logical paradox haha now i get it" you're just lying to yourselfhttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1375343131508404225?s=20 …

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          the point is not to have no desires, the point is to be able to desire things without having a certain outcome be necessary for happiness.
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        4.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 31

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          all neediness is needing to be happyhttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1375821104439119875?s=20 …

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          the point is not to be happy ALL the time but to not NEED to be happy the strategy of ' i NEED to be happy b/c otherwise i WON'T be happy' *seems* logical but makes about as much sense as only breathing in b/c you love breathing SO much.
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        5.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 31

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          anyone who thinks 100% coverage leads to enlightenment should be slapped to death by catshttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1376055715924566017?s=20 …

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          trying to literally achieve Perfect Understanding is like trying to watch all the youtubes "100% coverage" exists as a theoretical concept but w/ 500 hrs of video uploaded every minute u r going to be depressed if u actually measure ur progress
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        6.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Mar 31

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          the halal-kosher method of killing godshttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1376551335403814917?s=20 …

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          finding God requires killing God. you need to kill YOUR god, your PERSONAL god. the one most closest and dearest to you. (killing other's God's is easy in comparison and is often a displacement cope hobby)
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        7.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Apr 20

          ====== April 2021 =======

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        8.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Apr 20

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          a high fidelity rendering of a dog brain:https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1384545366041759750?s=20 …

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          April 1st fool's day 2021 pretending-to-be-silly-doge:
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        9.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Apr 20

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          fear is terrible motivator:https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1378589887222272005?s=20 …

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          training a dog to drop something is a good example of why fear is a terrible motivator. the dog will just learn to swallow it as fast as possible, the exact opposite of the desired behavior.
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        10.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Apr 20

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          wasted youth:https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1379159718162141184?s=20 …

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          the son is raised right when he does not have to spend the first 30 years of his life trying to prove himself the daughter is raised right when she does not have to spend the first 30 years of her life life trying to find love
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        11.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Apr 20

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          wanting to want to want to want to want to want to live:https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1379678398658703362?s=20 …

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          self help books that are like "you need to WANT it!" are stupid *the* problem is lack of desire. and that can't be solved by desiring desire. or desiring the desire to desire. etc...
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        12.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Apr 20

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          you *are* your "world":https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1380026349838983171?s=20 …

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          the environment maintains the basin “you” reside in. physical env triggers are a big part of this. prior to every city becoming homogeneous, travel could anneal the mind by rejiggering into a new local minimim
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        13.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Apr 20

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          hardcore meditation:https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1380165839744167940?s=20 …

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          if your goal is to be reborn then go to the monastery as if you were leaving home FUREVER. meditate as if you were sitting down to DIE it’s your planning for your return journey as the Great Rebirth that is interfering with the Story as you already have a Happy Ending in mind
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        14.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Apr 20

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          cults are like tic tacs:https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1380309306000560128?s=20 …

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          every group is maintained by a boundary and every boundary is maintained by the threat of physical or psychic violence. a cult ironically is a group that is built on NON-VIOLENCE as it disowns its violence into a shadowy border
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        15.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Apr 20

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          hooman hunting:https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1380796575518138378?s=20 …

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          when hunting the hooman you must keep in mind its two main fears: 1/ the fear of thinking for itself 2/ the fear of being accused of not thinking for itself that is, it wants to FEEL special, but does not actually want to BE "special"
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        16.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Apr 20

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          society vs family:https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1381262103592361985?s=20 …

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          the Father yelled "i don't want no daughter o mine being the world's masturbation tool no matter HOW much it pays!" she shrieked "but this makes me popular with the boys AND the girls! i don't want you stupid dad jokes and mom's broken attempts at love!"
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        17.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Apr 20

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          lucifer was an asshole:https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1381503134325829633?s=20 …

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          u think your feature set is bloated? i was in the room when that light-bringing dickhead of a PM wrote on the whiteboard in all caps "Consciousness" "Consciousness??!!" the engineer yelled. "it's a fuckin monkey brain wrapped around a lizard brain , we need to refactor first!"
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        18.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Apr 20

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          virtuous slaughter:https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1381859662753001475?s=20 …

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          raise your trauma/pain-body as you would a pig for slaughter. do not pet it. do not find it cute. and most of all, do. not. give. it. a. name. especially not YOUR name.
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        19.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Apr 20

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          The One True Thing You Really Really Want:https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1382062127918194696?s=20 …

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          maybe the One True Thing you’re REALLY looking for is not NEEDING to have a One True Thing limiting you
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        20.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Apr 20

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          to be or not to be an advanced michael scott, that is the question:https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1383650590782156802?s=20 …

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          an interesting thing i've seen on loser/clueless/sociopath is how the clueless ladder is considered "bad" but in michael-o-church's article instead of "detachment-from-reality" it is "interestingness". https://alexdanco.com/2021/01/22/the-michael-scott-theory-of-social-class/ … pic.twitter.com/RVr0hhAfcL
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        21.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Apr 20

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          https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1383686472721522688?s=20 …

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          quotes from "Awareness" by anthony de mello:
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        22.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Apr 20

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          the flip side of belonging is ownership:https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1383836791401181193?s=20 …

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          "i want to BELONG to someone/something. meaning! love! togetherness!" "oh yes! so virtue!" "i want to OWN someone/people!" "oh no! so depravity!" i don't understand the hoomans
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        23.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Apr 20

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          thoughts on indra's net:https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1384147240617345024?s=20 …

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          what if consciousness is like dew and brain is like grass it’s better than “brain as antenna consciousness as signal” bc signal implies intent while dew is emergent and traces back to moisture, temp, earth, universe, etc... pic.twitter.com/734yiaZBVj
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        24.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat May 12

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          you wouldn't invite a clown to a funeral to distract from the sadness. you want someone who can guide everyone THROUGH ithttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1385471222519984131?s=20 …

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          if someone is selling you the secrets of the universe here is litmus test for authenticity imagine u r giving a speech at a funeral for a coming to terms. it can be ur parents, ur child, u as a ghost at ur own suicide, or ur pet hooman, etc.. would this someone be helpful?
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        25.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat May 12

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          suffering as Real pain that isn't "Real"https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1386329863775088640?s=20 …

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          suffering can be defined as “shadow pain”. it’s when the thought of a thing is more scary/painful than the actual thing e.g. the giant needle for drawing blood. there’s both the physical sensation but also the looming dread prior to any physical sensation
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        26.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat May 12

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          assorted thoughts on groupthinkhttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1388219438781005826?s=20 …

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          bubble collapse & cult implosion seem very similar. they take over the public(your) mental space and create the illusion that market activity meaningfully reflects reality. however once they can no longer ingest new members, the credit dries up and prices fall
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        27.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat May 12

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          assorted test runs with gpt-3https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1392584117003325444?s=20 …

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