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A good definition of spirituality might be: the way in which you’re sensitive to unsystematized realities.
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A key mistake is to conflate unsystematized with pre-systematic. The original sin of high modernism is to see the unsystematized as only a starting point of a singular future system. The un-pre gap is where illegibility lives. If you can’t sense the gap, you’re locally clueless.
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Contempt is when you can sense the gap but are indifferent to it. Hostility is when you can sense it but feel a reactionary urge to reject it. You’re angry because you wish you were clueless enough to not respond to it.
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I’d say intuition is instrumentalized spirituality. It senses through a lens of actionability. Fingerspitzengehful.
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The first word for "sensitivity to unsystematised realities" that comes to my mind is 'intuition', not 'spirituality' - an intuitive person is in touch with unsystematised realities. This may overlap with spirituality in the population but doesn't seem like the same thing. WDYT?
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No, it takes taste to be a good calculation rationalist. Unspiritual is rule-based mindset, capable of only seeing through rules. It either tries to follow a rule, enforce a rule, or make a rule. It has no non-rule-based responses to stimuli, and no imagination.
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