amos-burton

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by amos-burton 1y ago
> I’d like you to keep in mind that we can train ourselves to feel more compassion rather than more empathic distress. having compassion in a world that lacks functioning sensory machinery to realize the pain it creates to achieve its go
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by amos-burton 1y ago
> ... cognitive empathy requires that we make a conscious effort to imagine ourselves in someone else’s shoes, to adopt their perspective. it is a pain in the ass to be empathetic in today's world. Got to put myself in the choose o
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by amos-burton 1y ago
I have not read the book, i only read a short at editionsdufaubourg[.]fr/livre/la-doctrine-invisible it definitely speaks out to me. though, it looks likes another of those illusions to entertain you, us. You may want to consider
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by amos-burton 1y ago
> Unless you're a big fan of cosmology, there is no sign of our universe doing anything particularly interesting at a "the whole universe" scale. to me it happens at such scales that i simply cannot fathom about it, only i
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by amos-burton 1y ago
Repeating scientific facts does not engage people internal structure so they behave better than the system that host them. wishful thinking.
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by amos-burton 1y ago
we would not have this narrow vision of losers/winners IF the inequalities were reduced, it would not be as strong as it is today in our world view if this parameter was adjusted. In turns, "winners" would not feel like they
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by amos-burton 1y ago
feel ! speak what you feel ! tell me how alive you are. embrace it. let it go. act here and now. what do you see from there ? how is it to detach ? there is the purpose i ask you to bear with you for a while, if you d like to share this jou
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by amos-burton 1y ago
Remember, try, harder, it looked so beautiful, so nice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP02FUbsn3w
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by amos-burton 1y ago
I cant tell if the first video is true not, my brain somewhere screams to the fake, i could search, can i trust ? hard to tell. I can only share the thrill it give me, my surprise to see those cars moving around, emptiness of those places,
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by amos-burton 1y ago
good news, IF that is true, i am not qualified to say. The real difficulty is about fighting the trail of progress, now, for 8 billions people, with some of them armed with nuclear weapons, to name only one example. the society much increas
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by amos-burton 1y ago
... consider you are equally fantasist, if i were to search i would found many pieces of articles on your website that says that climate change is bad; really bad; agreed; yet, here you are, polluting against all the claims you are pretendi
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by amos-burton 1y ago
no, not religion, mechanical activation of our reward system for a given amount of effort. to be rewarding implies you find some good into it, so you will rinse and repeat, whatever it is. some people likes sado maschism and explore this ac
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by amos-burton 1y ago
how do you account for the fact that, at best, you co evolved with the surrounding environment to be who you are, to find reward in what you do ? At best, because otherwise you are nothing more than the unexpected guest of a show you only w
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by amos-burton 1y ago
If the incentive is the culprit, then the airport employee acted out of her mind because her own survival was more important than to act human... therefore, she is biologically similar, but spiritually guided differently. she would never te
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by amos-burton 1y ago
bend, dont break
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by amos-burton 1y ago
> Our ideas become Oscillators it is the muscle working, the tide going back and forth. i liked reading it, lots of things to unpack, new descriptions of the elephant in the room to absorb. The conclusion itches me, (sorry for the spoil
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by amos-burton 1y ago
this is a side effect that the society has got hyper efficient into delivering to the market. it is so fast that when things move, they swamp in and they might be crippled with bad decisions we figure out only too late.
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by amos-burton 1y ago
yeah, words are more powerful than we usually suspect they are.
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by amos-burton 1y ago
it was not the end of the world, you literally got disconnected of the machine that helps you eat, drink, navigate, work, f.... in one word, to live. They call it the "wake up" scene https://www.youtube.com/watc
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by amos-burton 1y ago
https://ourworldindata.org/electricity-mix > ...Globally, coal, followed by gas, is the largest source of electricity production.... As long as this is the case we can hardly even the debate of the impacts of those new t
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by amos-burton 1y ago
you just had a taste of the ordinary tyranny.
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by amos-burton 1y ago
next step, people saying out loud their thoughts and feeling in comments below the media to intentionally explain ais what it really feels like beyond the electronic sensory. popcorn time.
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by amos-burton 1y ago
> I disagree with the partition of people into winners and losers. I honestly had not the courage to say those out loud... i suppressed those thoughts. you cant really mean such things unless you abandoned your individuality. few people
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by amos-burton 1y ago
As an outsider i am surprised by the fact that all along this very good writings nowhere is questioned the cost of change. Getting a totally new belief, one that is not dissonant, needs zero analysis, is costless and easy to integrate. Thin
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by amos-burton 1y ago
that begs the question, do you believe the beliefs you believed you believe ? great posting, thanks for it.