https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4166378/ … "Sense of foreshortened future" is a commonly attested symptom of PTSD. Lots of useful concepts in this article.
likewise, in order to move your arm to pick up an object, you must believe in a certain amount of intelligibility in the universe, and you must not be paralyzed by the belief that you don't "deserve" to move your arm.
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This seems like a strange definition of benevolence. The universe merely being *stable*, if not particularly invested in my success wouldn't qualify in my book.
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Especially since the stability doesn't actually exclude outcomes like "a meteor hits the earth and kills everybody" or "runaway greenhouse gas emissions literally destroy the biosphere". The traumatic shearing away of one illusion forces trust of deeper principles e.g statistics.
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