fuck to this "enlightenment is quietism" shit thohttps://twitter.com/goofbone/status/1024055474449051649 …
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did you think that was *metaphorical* water you were gonna carry or *spiritual* wood you were gonna chop, motherfucker
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But those will in turn fail before those who throw all ethics out the window and don't even bother with justification, either before or after the fact.
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there are consolations, such as they are, yes
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The place where this falls down is that all that psychological integration will also keep you from making stupid costly decisions based on pattern recognition, passions, or rationales with giant gaps. You take longer to choose, but you avoid pitfalls.
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(By the same token: actually planning & strategizing instead of being a human markov chain leads to doing things no human has ever thought of before when those things are appropriate. When you do something nobody's done before, you have no competition & win by default.)
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You might get outcompeted in the game they are playing (in the short term). But you are playing a different game with longer term payoffs
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When still a student, the Zen monk, Fa-yen, was going on his pilgrimage. A Zen teacher, Ti-tsang, asked him what he thought the purpose of pilgrimage was. Fa-yen paused, and answered, "I don't know." Ti-tsang said, "Not knowing is closest to it." Fa-yen had an awakening.
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