People who are focused on specific things seem to have better judgment than people who focus mostly on vague abstract values
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I seem to have settled nicely into "wildly abstract" (writing/reading about self-authorship / meta-narrative / God-and-the-universe / symbols-and-meaning) vs "wildly concrete" (I'm making another spoon soon, I swear) There is nothing in-between for me Heaven and filth Heaven a
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that seems like me too - the concrete stuff grounds the high-flying stuff (my favorite kind of abstract writing is lousy with concrete metaphor)
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that’s a question that my first instinct is to pass to
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It seems like the whole point of marriage is to develop something in your life that feels very big and very specific
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Love this bit from All Things Shining about restoring meaning through seeing what you actually already care about.pic.twitter.com/SFW2xuodgc
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I’ve been obsessing all month about “objective, context-independent” stuff being fake and bullshit, I love to see this!
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the "cosmic view" that makes abstractions real and the real meaninglesspic.twitter.com/4og7jDjWRX
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I don't know if it's about abstract vs. specific as much as just not wanting to feel like one is killing time until their own death I assume the answer involves recognizing that certain ways of killing time (hobbies, friends) are actually the whole point of being alive
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