what is interesting about flow experiences is that they are only ever experienced as memories beautiful experiences are so totalizing that they disable the "self" and its ability to "observe" and selectively influence memory creationhttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1394623807550328832 …
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the essence of voyeurism is that it strives to achieve oneness by minimizing the unworthy self to a mere observer of the worshipped Beauty yet this very act of "humility" is the very source of wrongness. to feel watched is the opposite of onenesshttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1394538549068787715?s=20 …
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to watch without interacting also indicates a "gap" between the observed and the self the voyeur always feels lecherous, out of the league of that which is worshipped but still willing to lick at the crumbs it can find
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this "doglike" devotion is devotion to an ideal. a connection is created but it is a one-way connection of worship that makes someone feel trapped permanently in what was supposed to just be a temporary rolehttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1304696093515476992?s=20 …
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this is because beauty is only a stepping stone to what is truly desired.... Freedom wealth, high-class, beauty, vacations, fast cars ... they are all desires for FREEDOMhttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1349599068033490944 …
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however beauty will never LEAD you to freedom. in many ways it is the opposite of freedom because beauty tends to be high maintenance HOWEVER. that which is perfectly free will theoretically always choose what is most beautiful regardless of price thus beauty FINDS freedom
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the voyeur cannot step forward because of insufficient freedom because it cannot step into the light it is incapable of self-annihilationhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nhtHNqUxqM&t=178s …
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it dooms itself to immortality, constantly repeating the same porn day after day in the hope that THIS time something will happen for real. not realizing that the repetition has so abstracted the scene that behind that door may as well be a plastic dollhttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1394526837968052229?s=20 …
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what is meant by "freedom" is not the wealth to pay any price and get "whatever i want" it is more like having 1000TB of music space so that downloading the super high quality file is no issue except the storage is MEMORY
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because flow experiences cannot be compressed, someone who has a LOT of flow experiences is naturally FELT to be "fuller" and "larger" than someone who contains information that CAN be easily compressed
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a pianist or a surgeon or soldier for example feels heroic because it indicates an accumulation of experiences where EVERY SMALL DETAIL MATTERS
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an engineer or programmer on the other hand doesn't because it's so easy to "fake" knowledge because in 99% of situations only the final output matters and that can be copy pasted like how used car lots are avoided due to a fear of lemons
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other fields like math or ping pong suffer from the opposite problem. it's too esoteric or fast to be appreciated. everything looks the same to outsiders.
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freedom thus is an unlimited appetite for full fidelity beautiful experiences. a "zest" for life. (note that Greed is a near enemy to this as it too has a large appetite)
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the max limit here is someone who lives a life fully in flow. where only ONE memory is created and is recalled ONCE at the moment of death. it is someone who has died before they died it is someone who lives as if they were watching their life flash before their eyes
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this is when i POUNCE!!!https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1384476944528547840 …
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