parthianshotgun

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   by parthianshotgun 4y ago

   Is there supporting evidence for this? I'm sympathetic, mainly because I didn't grow up in a comfortable environment either
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   by parthianshotgun 4y ago

   Have you ever read Ted Chiang's 'The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling'? What if forgetting is a part of forgiveness or healing? Eidetic memory seems fraught to me, but I'd love to know your thoughts on this.
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   by parthianshotgun 4y ago

   Yes I'm starting to understand a little more and I agree with you in broad strokes. But I guess to parley with 'society' requires some degree of compromise. Casting your own ego into the mix might be self correcting on societ
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   by parthianshotgun 4y ago

   I haven't really listened to Watts seriously in any capacity, but can you explain what you don't like about him? If I had to guess I'd wager that you explaining it might undo your own philosophy, which is something I'm s
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   by parthianshotgun 4y ago

   I'm not quite sure how to parse this or if this was even meant for me, but I do hope that this isn't some pretense to dispair or annihilation (the bad kind)
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   by parthianshotgun 4y ago

   Or a carrot farmer!
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   by parthianshotgun 4y ago

   Are you a hermit?
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   by parthianshotgun 4y ago

   My perspective is velenced by my own biases, just like yours. My function here was just to provide a countering force to your force, and let the OP atleast be presented with the opportunity to be skeptical (mirroring the discourse around th
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   by parthianshotgun 4y ago

   I'd really look into the validity of the book, a cursory google search reveals that's it's basically a load of shit. Also the book is narrated by Stefan Molyneux, which, I wouldn't say is a 'happy accident' whe
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    by parthianshotgun 4y ago

    I think you are trying to fit the narrative to your own bias and experience. Tolstoy thought the opposite, to offer a countervailing outlook. > I cannot now help seeing day and night going round and bringing me to death. That is all I s
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    by parthianshotgun 4y ago

    Relevant David Foster Wallace > As I see it, it probably really is good for the soul to be a tourist, even if it’s only once in a while. Not good for the soul in a refreshing or enlivening way, though, but rather in a grim, steely-eyed,
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    by parthianshotgun 4y ago

    I think he missed Shamanistic rituals, to hold together the tribe the leader needs to also perform atleast some amount of animal sacrifice
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    by parthianshotgun 4y ago

    ITT someone who hasn't heard of Obsidian