Strive towards what's better. The modern idea is you're supposed to accept yourself. I think that's an insane idea - Really. I can't think of a more nihilistic idea than that... (thread)
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"You're already okay". No, you're not! And the reason you're not is that you could be way more than you are.
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What do you want to be: do you want to be okay as you are, or do you want to strive towards what's better?
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I think of it more like radical self acceptance of the human condition and self forgiveness of the past so that one feels worthy enough to make attempts towards self betterment in the present
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If that IS what it was, I think a lot more of us could get behind it. But I've literally gotten responses to my posts about being overweight and trying to better myself that call me fatphobic and toxic. They aren't setting the groundwork for self-improvement: they oppose it.
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Hey Jordan, would love to see you discuss this idea with Dr.K. he's helping gamers and degens get better and you have opposite thoughts about "you are okay".
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I’m a big fan but think you misrepresent those that teach this deep spiritual concept.Our true selves are deeply ok.They’ve a spark of godliness in them.The work in this lifetime is to uncover this purity.The deep love is for our true selves.The one doesn’t contradict the other
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Perhaps this deeply OK part of us, the Self, is the thing our conscious self falls short of
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and the wiser alternative would be? What? Stay where you are in turmoil?
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You should love yourself though. You're okay enough to be loved. Not okay enough to stay as you are.
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