”When someone repeatedly uses a word/phrase as a signifier it’s probably helpful to question that term, and look at our reaction to the usage. What do I/they mean?” • what do I think x means? • what do I associate x with? • how are they using x? • idiosyncratic? technical?
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Meditation eg/s: • I know a dzogchenpa who uses ‘Truth’ in a way unlike my associations with the word. Took me ages to look at that, notice how it changed my perception of what they said. • Shinzen refers to The Source. I’m still not sure what he means. • ‘Awakening’
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Sometimes this opens up new avenues of thought, sometimes it clarifies an argument or makes it seem obviously stupid, sometimes you notice that a term is being used as in-group code to gloss over specifics or areas of tension/dissonance (eg: ‘problematic’).
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Anti-intellectualism is antithetical to my desired direction and invokes a peculiar sense of antipathy.
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