42/ To the extent that you resent, distrust, or hate yourself, you will tend to undermine yourself. Much failure results from a desperate, fearful, secret goodness inside us, trying to hold us back from harming the world. This can be fixed with sincere effort.
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43/ Ask yourself: Am I the light, or am I the darkness? What do I have to hide? Matthew 5:14-16 attached. (I’m not a Christian, btw. I just have a Bible open in front of me. Does this matter? Don’t be distracted! The ‘words’ of an ontology are its surface. Seek the depth!)pic.twitter.com/WkxPh1yeSc
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44/ Stereotypical spiritual statements (like 'all is one') are degenerate renditions of real insight. They're not 'meaningless' - rather, there's some important reality they clumsily refer to. Still, these kinds of things are not usually helpful unless you already 'get it'.
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45/ People underestimate BOTH how bad they are and how good they are. The default is something like 'you're a really shit person, with the heart of an angel and the potential of a god.'
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46/ No one is unsaveable in principle, but some people are really, really far away. Have to do our best.
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47/ By default, the thoughts, desires, & actions of your past self completely define you. You can overcome this, w/ a truly legendary effort. ...and I'm done?! Will end (for now!) with another cheesy but perfect quote. Thx for reading, friends, & thx
@vgr for making this happen!pic.twitter.com/R5tgTXW680
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48/ Must beware the conflation of balance/equanimity with passivity. Must beware the conflation of exertion/energy expenditure/activation with activity.
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49/ I believe in psychological determinism in the same way I believe in physical determinism - true but never matters. If you ever find yourself not trying or giving up bc of ‘determinism’, this is laziness or despair trying to be clever. Metaphysics ain’t the problem.
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50/ While the ‘determinism means I can’t choose’ perspective is wrong, it’s equally wrong to say that some things are not set in stone. I think everyone knows that ‘anything is possible’ is a pep talk? How freeing it can be to find that a course of action is leading us nowhere!
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51/ For a given ideology, you want to ask: what kind of person is this trying to turn me into? A Christian saint? A world-leaving Buddhist? A Randian hero? An übermensch? These are different aims. Idealized visions, likely only partially instantiated by the visionaries.
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I am trying to reconcile the left hand path of increased agency and sovereignty with the right hand path of love, benevolence and self transcendence. My ideal would be something like "the righteous king."
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