Philosophy

Understanding Understanding (Labels)

-Variety, diversity means that objects have different properties. E.g. a cat has fur, it purrs, and is cute. Whereas a tree has leaves, a trunk, branches, and grows big -Existence of variety doesn’t preclude existence of a degree of homogeneity. Two objects can have some different properties — and some similar properties -Thus between two …

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Lifestyle Philosophy

What MORE RESPONSIBILITY Means

“More responsibility” means more responsibility. Therefore “more responsibility” does not mean the same amount of responsibility, and it obviously does not mean LESS responsibility.   What many do is they TRADE responsibilities, They will take more responsibility for one thing — and give up responsibility for something else -1+1 = 0. You didn’t take more …

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Lifestyle Spirituality

Love Your Life and Revile Your Plans

The contrived notion is that you should hustle so hard that you hate your life, then critically look in the mirror and still not be satisfied “no pain no gain” , “tough love”, etc But that your wonderful future, and your wonderful purpose, and your wonderful drive make it all sweet! That you feel SO …

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Philosophy World

No, We Are Not Better Than the Out Modern World

-There’s the mediocre majority -The excellent minority -And the backwards minority -I believe the whole is pushed forward by the excellent minority -The excellent minority, the heroes, the precursors, the visionaries, the saints, are miles ahead -The mediocre majority is slightly behind the average of the whole, because the whole is pushed forward by the …

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Lifestyle Philosophy

Cycle Of Delusion, Pessimism, Enlightenment

It’s a cycle: -delusion, ignorance, denial -acceptance, pessimism, desperation -growth, enlightenment   Examples? –Dunning-Kruger effect –Gartner’s hype cycle –Four stages of competence -and most people you know   Let’s explain the cycle:   DELUSION, IGNORANCE, DENIAL -Anything you’re not knowledgeable about, don’t have significant experience at — you’re basically ignorant about -Since you’re ignorant — …

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Philosophy Spirituality

Thought Is NOT Consciousness

Thought is NOT consciousness. You don’t have to think it to be conscious of it. And thinking it doesn’t mean you’re even conscious of it.   Thought is processing information: collecting it, and manipulating it NOT unlike computers, With the key similarity being that the data we operate on is never THE reality — it’s …

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Philosophy Spirituality

Can’t Solve Delusion with Rationality

When you see an illusion – it doesn’t matter that you “rationally” know that it’s an illusion. You’re still seeing it. The problem is you seeing this illusion, NOT you being “rational” or not. Therefore the only solution is to see the reality, rather than illusion,   Likewise when you believe something — it doesn’t …

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Lifestyle Philosophy

Love Intensely vs Idealize Perversely

There’s reality and there’s illusion There’s the truth and there’s a lie There’s life and there’s fantasy   Anything you perceive of — becomes an image in your mind Now you have both the perceived — and the image of the perceived Therefore now it’s plural and not singular, therefore now you have a choice …

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