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Hey, @HeidiPriebe1 and I are running a writer's retreat just after the New Year. We'll talk about Zen, creativity, and maintaining the discipline and structure needed to keep a daily writing practice.
We'd love to have you!
We'd love to have you!
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hate conversational bad faith. i’m trying to understand u and you’re trying to defeat me. we are participating in two entirely different activities
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The thing to understand about psych diagnosis is that mental health "disorders" are as much alike as they are different. The diagnosis gives you a small measure of control and the practitioner a place to stand.
Then you get to work on facing the truth and growing up.
Then you get to work on facing the truth and growing up.
have tribal autists ever worked through the implications for their community formation of the basic fact that all neuroatypicalities are meaningfully comorbid
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Prayer is one of the oldest and most research-supported interventions for trauma and mood disorder symptoms across cultures and faith, but y’all aren’t ready for that conversation yet. The human brain likely adapted to mindfulness and biofeedback since we worshipped the sun.
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@Chris_Smeder @chrislakin Shiva Tantra was very clear about getting your shit together in mundane ways if you want to take a serious run at awakening. Big part of the appeal to me.
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Do not ignore your anxieties.
Instead, look so deeply into the energy they are constructed from that it reveals itself to be a luminous empty bliss that is formed of the same fundamental stuff as awe, wonder and excitement.
The bigger the anxiety the bigger the pay off.
So, if you want to get super high, look deeply into the eyes of your fear of death.
Instead, look so deeply into the energy they are constructed from that it reveals itself to be a luminous empty bliss that is formed of the same fundamental stuff as awe, wonder and excitement.
The bigger the anxiety the bigger the pay off.
So, if you want to get super high, look deeply into the eyes of your fear of death.
If, instead of ignoring them, you peel off the thought and stay with the feeling, you will eventually arrive at a face-to-face confrontation with your fear of death
On the other side of that is real life
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I think everyone’s lost the plot with dating tbh
You’re looking for home. That’s the only point of any of it. A flickering hearth, a bountiful table, a passion that will wax and wane as unalarmingly as the moon. Deciding to love a person ideally involves the same simple blend of logic + intuition that goes into choosing a place to live: you have a short list of what you absolutely need, some things that are nice to have, but mostly it comes down to if it feels immediately instinctively NICE.
When you’re paying attention to how you feel that recognition comes pretty quickly imo. People overcomplicate it a lot, mostly by trying to look to others to figure out what they should care about.
You’re looking for home. That’s the only point of any of it. A flickering hearth, a bountiful table, a passion that will wax and wane as unalarmingly as the moon. Deciding to love a person ideally involves the same simple blend of logic + intuition that goes into choosing a place to live: you have a short list of what you absolutely need, some things that are nice to have, but mostly it comes down to if it feels immediately instinctively NICE.
When you’re paying attention to how you feel that recognition comes pretty quickly imo. People overcomplicate it a lot, mostly by trying to look to others to figure out what they should care about.
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Feminism kills me because literally every time we discover a technology that enables women some freedom from the tyranny of nature, we also change society within a generation to make it happen.
Men have never oppressed women. We love you! We're on your team! We always were!
Men have never oppressed women. We love you! We're on your team! We always were!
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The 19th amendment was passed by an all-male electorate! As soon as society was ready for women to vote, we made it happen within a generation.
Still waiting for someone to prove me wrong and not just attempt to shame me
Still waiting for someone to prove me wrong and not just attempt to shame me
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It is 2055. The conversion of the asteroid belt into a massive data center, powered by the Musk Dyson Sphere, has enabled ClaudeGPT to plan the human colonization of Alpha Centauri. The only disease left to be cured is ennui. Google Chrome still can't autofill a credit card
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If, instead of ignoring them, you peel off the thought and stay with the feeling, you will eventually arrive at a face-to-face confrontation with your fear of death
On the other side of that is real life
On the other side of that is real life
If you are a neurotic/anxious person, you must ignore most of your worries.
91.4% of them never come true.
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I think You Can See Everything is freaking ppl out cause they cant hold multiple things in their head at once:
1. Both the ppl in the couple are evil
2. The guy is evil in immediately recognizable ways
3. Theyre both actually fully in love
3. Nate is also kinda evil
1. Both the ppl in the couple are evil
2. The guy is evil in immediately recognizable ways
3. Theyre both actually fully in love
3. Nate is also kinda evil
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Look, I'm a former escort AND slut
Men straight up cannot get hard if they think you're not into it
Men hesitate mid-sex if they suspect you so much as winced
I promise my sample size is higher than yours, and no, most men are not into sex a woman doesn't want
I am not here for women who pretend most men are passive-aggressive predators, cuz they're not
Men straight up cannot get hard if they think you're not into it
Men hesitate mid-sex if they suspect you so much as winced
I promise my sample size is higher than yours, and no, most men are not into sex a woman doesn't want
I am not here for women who pretend most men are passive-aggressive predators, cuz they're not
@lizisamused @AposematicHate Men want to have sex with women, regardless of whether she wants it or not. Sometimes it leads to rape, although generally the fact that she is unwilling doesn't add to the enjoyment.
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Something that seems true about the culture war is that the right has fully internalized the fact that America now has two cultures. The left hasn't, so they haven't figured out how to be liberal and humane toward their opponents, which hamstrings everything that makes them strong
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I like how the Chinese do this. If you’re going to eat an animal, you should have no illusions about what you are doing. Mindfulness of eating, mindfulness of death.
Haven’t figured out yet why an animal’s head is so frequently served with the rest of it here in China.
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if you want to first-hand understand how relative happiness is
go on a 10 day silent meditation retreat where you are allowed to do zero things
i have never had so much joy staring at a leaf blowing in the wind lol. and my attention span was actually functioning
go on a 10 day silent meditation retreat where you are allowed to do zero things
i have never had so much joy staring at a leaf blowing in the wind lol. and my attention span was actually functioning
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Before stepping into the ring, Cus D’Amato would repeat to Mike Tyson that you don’t exist, only the task exists.
The moment you internalize what this really means, all self-doubt simply ceases to exist, because there’s no longer a self to doubt.
What’s left is total immersion in the task, which is what the flow state actually is, where there’s no “you” left to interfere, and action arises by itself, like second nature, faster than conscious thought, through the sheer genius of your unconscious mind.
The moment you internalize what this really means, all self-doubt simply ceases to exist, because there’s no longer a self to doubt.
What’s left is total immersion in the task, which is what the flow state actually is, where there’s no “you” left to interfere, and action arises by itself, like second nature, faster than conscious thought, through the sheer genius of your unconscious mind.
No exaggeration, this guy might be the best interview in pro sports right now
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