not quietism on the other side. just quiet. quietism is the path / the drugs I suppose
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Replying to @exSJWtruther @Meaningness
hm okay so, not the peppier kind of drugs i guess
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Replying to @chaosprime @Meaningness
sure the peppy ones. I'm not a cryptic poster, feel free to ask for clarification but I guess this is my native model
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you're the one who brought up taoism. greater yin inside lesser yang or some shit. hurricane strength proportional to eye inertia
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Replying to @exSJWtruther @Meaningness
tornadoes made of gods and demons all the way down, sure
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Replying to @chaosprime @Meaningness
eye as in eye of the storm. stillness there has the opposite effect in the whirling area which I'm mapping to the little opposite-colored dots in the yin/yang. do you mean anything besides therapeutic by quietism? bc I see most yanas as having the same goal...
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Replying to @exSJWtruther @Meaningness
i mean "calm acceptance of things as they are without attempts to resist or change them"
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not to devalue calm acceptance of things as they are, mind you i counsel calm acceptance of things as they are with vigorous attempts to change them
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Replying to @chaosprime @Meaningness
this has been semantic. I meant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quietism_(philosophy) … I understand your distinction and I suspect some esoteric taoists have exactly what you're talking about
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Replying to @exSJWtruther @Meaningness
ahh, of course. "Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language." okay very good
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and yeah clearly they must given how the "cultivator" archetype shows up in storytelling
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