there is an underlying impulse to overlay a structured, ordered pattern on the unfathomable and…I suspect this is an artifact of perception itself. We are perceiving beings. Which I think means that we are so constructed (bodies with…Mar 72Mar 72
No one can "surf their learned beliefs about the universe."I think most do exactly that, because they mistake their learned beliefs for the universe itself. A better metaphor than "surf," perhaps…Feb 171Feb 171
So, in the end, I can either surf the universe or I can fight it.100%. The trick, though - and the part that flummoxes most - is figuring out the difference between the universe as-it-is and what we…Feb 171Feb 171
I am not really "advocating for social roles" so much as just thinking about how it might be…Feb 61Feb 61
human society is a grid with fundamentally identical yet still individually configured unique nodes.Great question. I would guess this brings us back to our earlier conversation about roles. Husband, father, employee, boss, etc. Part of…Feb 52Feb 52
Yet, what it actually is (beyond the fact that it is not apart from the truth), why it arises…This is what I was getting at in my response to your other piece yesterday. With "why it arises" being unkowable, and perhaps even absent…Feb 21Feb 21
I think the world "self" is mostly unsalvageable at this point.You of course, are not using "self' that way. But I wonder how many people can read an essay like this and cognize "self" as anything other…Feb 14Feb 14
I agree 100%.I suspect, but can't say I honestly know from experience, that there is another layer of freedom - that it is possible for humans to unpin…Jan 261Jan 261
SS, I think you are my longest-lasting internet friend.The everyday world stuff is not complicated. In 2024, a "revolution of one" = suicide by cop. Refusing to participate in Capitalism =…Sep 21, 20241Sep 21, 20241
a guy who claims to not want to be famous and who allegedly hates capitalism yet posts…Maybe not literal clockwork, but close enough. There's an app for that... :0)Sep 21, 20241Sep 21, 20241
