tokenpreneur

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by tokenpreneur 5y ago
You do not need information on their meditation practice to support the idea that secular meditation is on the rise and proof of that rise is at the very least evident in a secular meditation app getting such a large amount of installs.
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by tokenpreneur 5y ago
Worry not, for secular meditation does not get that far. Otherwise we'd have seen a psychosis pandemic vis-à-vis Calm.com's 40 million app installs.
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by tokenpreneur 5y ago
It's not the Tree of Knowledge that is a 'bad thing', but rather Adam and Eve did a bad thing by defying God's command not to eat from that tree.
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by tokenpreneur 5y ago
> By building too much of an information hierarchy do these sorts of templates over-fit to imaginary use-cases in a way that makes them useless for real world use? Yes.
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by tokenpreneur 7y ago
> Ah ok that's the misunderstanding then, because earlier you said "If there's lust involved, it's by definition not unconditional", which is obviously something different so I got confused. I didn't reall
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by tokenpreneur 7y ago
I'm not making the case that sexual attraction is a necessary pre-requisite for love. I'm making the case that in a love where sexual attraction is the pre-requisite, that love is not unconditioned. I meet a woman. She's beau
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by tokenpreneur 7y ago
We're talking about romantic love where lust is a dominant factor, if there was no sexual attraction bringing the two parties together, then how could there have been any subsequent love to arise? The sexual attraction (lust) is a cond
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by tokenpreneur 7y ago
You can't call a (romantic) love unconditional, if there's lust involved. The lust conditions the (romantic) love. This is not the same as saying lust is a necessary condition for love (but is usually a factor in romantic love), w
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by tokenpreneur 7y ago
> An expectation of unconditional love is often abusive. It often boils down to expecting slavery and servitude from another person. I agree. I realized this, when my wife told me she would love me unconditionally, and I later pressed he
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by tokenpreneur 7y ago
Lust is conditioned by pleasurable sensory inputs and the prospect (or consummation, if you're lucky) of the sexual encounter.
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by tokenpreneur 7y ago
The GP was making a distinction regarding the application of the quality of unconditional to romantic love. At the minimum , if there's lust involved, it's by definition not unconditional. You snarkily leave me to parsing adjecti
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by tokenpreneur 7y ago
It's not unconditional if it's also lustful.