Every abstraction is a phallus jutting out into the world Every abstraction is a orifice through which reality is experienced The world does not happen to you You do not happen to the world The world happens through you
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Everybody talking about big their knowledge graph is Nobody talking about the hole in their abstractions Every logical structure is founded on a leap of faith, a decision, an orifice, an assumption Think about the whole picture
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There’s a divine unity of the masculine and feminine in every mind
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The subjective masculine rational mind exerts itself on the world by forming abstractions At the end of the day, phenomenological experience is feminine Regardless of how perfectly you think you “control” your environment, Physics doesn’t care what you think
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The flow of experience must be submitted to each day The rational mind, no matter how powerful, is not in control
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The body, no matter how powerful, is but a grain of sand drifting in a sea of leviathans
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No matter how perfect the system you’re building is Reality is going to penetrate the system
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πάντϵς δϵ̀ θϵω̑ν χατϵ́ουσ' ἄνθρωποι. by Homer. Translates (roughly) as all men need gods. Been thinking about this recently along with your recent tweets on Godel. If all men need Gods and we killed God, then their gods are now their abstractions.
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Thumbscrews. Come to realise all men have a "religion" of some sort. Be it political or ethical. Some guiding light in order to help them live. What gives them most of their psychological utility.https://twitter.com/GRITCULT/status/1018064943009198081?s=19 …
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I like the "thumbscrew" idea. It speaks to the simplicity of it. For all the complex mental edifices that people create, all the rationalizations, everything, the driving force is always simple. The guiding light is always irreducible.
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@Wilhelm_Treffer Sensory organs are nothing but hypothesises about the world, awaiting verification by perception -
(Aus Der Geist fiel nicht vom Himmel aber wohl Gedanke Poppers)
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