You know what repetition is about right? How all songs do it? When you pay attention to the same thing over, and over, and over, and over and over you'll notice that it becomes nearly impossible to pay any attention to it whatsoever, until eventually bam, it becomes unfamiliar and brand new.

Of course it is, much much stronger, and that it's harder to be good, and self-handicapping is the point. To take on those stronger, not weaker than you. The whole thing wouldn't be of interest or valor of it were easy, or what you're up against is weaker than you.

like, like, like, like lol.

I have that thing were I'm cursed with awesome, in that I have like zero visual memories. At like super pivotal moments of my life I've had like vision like imaginings of ideas, like "what that would look like" in an artistic way. I remember once seeing a bunch of pods vibrating out frequencies a few years ago when I was walking home from work.

Usually my memories or thoughts have no visual or structural content whatsoever, I think mainly audio and touch. Not awesome on tastes or smells either.

Proper attachment is visceral, intuitive, bodily. Attachment to images blinds one to what one is actually learning about a person while spending time with them. You absorb parts of them begin to synchronize in thought and feeling. You become a way with them, and they become a way with you, and when they are absent, or you know that they're gone, a literal piece of you has to die with them. The image is protected from harm, but harm comes to you merely by the absence of those you like, and particularly those you love, and even more harm comes to you when they are harmed.

I just know myself well enough that I can discern what feelings and thoughts aren't and are mine.

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I think there is a very real sense in which everyone is wrong about literally everything! — Barry Etheridge

There's a self referential paradox there... personally I solve those by being two people. I get to be the one that's always wrong, but keeps forgetting about that part.

Sorry about the tone of that, of course people known what plenty of things are, I was in a bad mood. Blah blah blah "I have sole access to the truth" blah blah blah "strongest in the world" blah blah blah.

It's wrong foundationally, which is why most everyone is wrong about literally everything. They have no idea what anything at all is.

In this case, it is always wrong because it's a sky hook. Utopia always means you swooping in to save the day, and telling everyone what's best. It's always just the wish to populate your own little fantasy world with real people. We should definitely do the best we can, individually, but we can't make anyone else do that. We can't force freedom, or command happiness.

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Covert attacks are a yin release. You must have a poor relationship with your father.

Attachment is good, and pain is necessary. You can avoid it, and not feel the pain of absence, or you can protect yourself from the pain by either focusing on their flaws, or eulogizing them -- none of which I think is healthy. I think that you should love fully, and miss deeply.

You'll always be delusional at the cost of any protective strategies about people's true natures otherwise, in my view.

I heard on the radio the other day that he hasn't made a comment about it, nor returned their calls. Lol

Oh, I think that it's quite possible, but lets all just hope that it never happens.

I haven't done it in awhile either, but I throw and catch things a lot every day usually. I saw a documentary once that argued that we're so awesome at math and coordination because we got so good at throwing spears and rocks. Jumping over things, and doing various physical activities teach you plenty about physics and math, whether you have the words to express it or not. Another interesting thing, is like Homo Erectus and backwards couldn't rotate their wrists, as none of the other contemporaneous primates can. The mind follows the body, and the body follows the mind.

Been awhile then, eh?

I doubt it.

Oh, and maybe you guys rely too much on your eyes, you'd have to have some in the backs of your heads to see what I see.

Learn how to throw a rock well, and precisely. That takes some pretty hardcore math skillz. Once you're good at doing that, you'll be good at math, and then you just have to learn all of the stupid formulas, memorize them, and then they'll click eventually. I'd suggest throwing rocks while trying to solve math problems rather than thinking about it.

Also, synthetic a priori, kind of meaning half in the world, half in you. Like jigsaw puzzles, you just have to find out how they all fit. There is much pretending, and competition though, and the voices in your head are not your own, they're other peoples... and those people are all out for themselves and not you. You need to follow your nose, as it were to the right voices that inspire rather than repress you -- inspiration is energy which can be utilized for adventurous thinking and behavior.

I don't know why I replied to you particularly, I guess for the first part, but then just kind of trailed off to general comments.

Kant also knew what delusion does to you, so he wanted to empty the spirit world of content, but retain the mystery/wonder... all he did of course was change the game, rather than end it.

Actually getting past the wanting phase and getting on to the trying. There's a million different opinions on it, and if the tools necessary to succeed are innate then just assume that you have them. Try everything, and if it feels dishonest, like pretending, ineffectual then stop and try something else. There is no "right way" but there's always a better way... remember not to wait too long though, and no one is perfect... just be good enough for you, and that's all that matters.

Can't use geometry for carpentry unless you want to do a shit job. Can't infer lengths and widths because things aren't symmetrical.

Space and time, obviously (Einstein clearly ripped off Kant for relativity of space and time, just externalizing Kant's insights about reason, he also has a suspiciously similar quote, and says that the secret to originality is knowing how to hide your sources... not well enough I fear.)

Logic is all about timing, and intuition all about space. I can tell by looking at someone which they'll be better and which they'll be worse at. People that have no sense of time dilly dally, are indecisive, take fucking forever to do anything, and talk a lot.

People that have no sense of space are least viscerally aware of their surroundings, stop right in front of people behind them on the sidewalk, or can't drive for shit and things... yeah... what were we walking about again?

Kant made pains to show that mathematical principles don't pan exactly well onto the world, but only roughly, and thus must be innate, or behind the scenes in some sense.

Dictionaries don't define words, they circumlocute them... they defer, to different words.

It's simple, when there's a problem you can either change yourself, or change the world. When you're stuck in paralyzes it means that you're trying to do the former. That's good to do, we need that -- but sometimes people are wrong, and ultimately you have to go with your gut. The thing is to wait. Most of the things that people do are covert, and attack you on an unconscious level, so that your feelings about it are themselves unconscious. Flipping the fuck out, sending out glares, and things are overt responses that you may not even be aware that you're doing. Retreating inside, trusting them, and doubting yourself is another response. It is only after a certain amount of time, after some digestion that the truth will be revealed.

As the Buddha said, just like the moon and the sun, the truth never remains long hidden. Why are you stuck in paralyzes? Because you think that something is wrong with you, that's why you won't stop thinking. You're constantly being attacked, and you can't figure out why, and that's your response to it.

But maybe they're wrong? The idea is to find a good balance between things, not to not give a shit what people think, but to just absorb it, digest it, and the truth will be revealed, and trust those instincts.

If you find yourself at one end of a spectrum try inverting it, and doing the opposite, the middle will then become more obvious.

The way it was proven was by dropping little iron balls into clay, and they said she was so arrogant for daring to dispute Newton.

Science is a bit useful to me, it does in fact matter to me that falling from a two story is four times the force of falling from a one story.

Everything is different, that's what make them different things. Some things are qualitatively different, as it is to break a rock is different than breaking a squirrel. The adrenaline that the predator feels and the fear that the prey does are qualitatively identical, even they know more about what they're doing than the cold, slaughter of billions and billions a year from such a distance.

They also rape and kill their own species without repercussions, and often rewards -- are they then cool too? Everyone's got a Trump.

Do what you want, I just said what I did, and why.

I didn't just state it, as Kant suggested, "ought" implies "can". When you think about "equality" you think of it in an idealized general kingdom of heaven that is never actualized by angels, but corruptible humans, none of which individually treat people equally, so it cannot reasonably be suggested that it somehow emerges to be so on the macro scale...

It's not about equality, that's ridiculous. There's a wide margin between loving someone so much you'd give your life for them, and not giving a shit at all. It's impossible to treat everyone equally, not actionable.

I care about rock formations, and see no need to destroy them just because I can, and feel more and more repelled by the notion the further up the ladder of self-determination and consciousness. Why do you have that destructive impulse in the first place? What are you sublimating?

How do I draw a tiger than without utilizing it's flesh and bones? What part of a tiger necessarily goes into the representation of it?

Though your rebuttal of "nope, nope" is quite sophisticated.

Descartes knew that form was distinct from content, and that the overwhelming vast majority fallacies were informal, as logic is easy, but people don't know what words mean. He might mean something different, and perfectly coherent, but if his intention is to link the word to its literal meaning, then that's what it is.

You know, "spirit", "atman", and "chi" all come from the root meaning "breath".

Of course I do, I don't think everyone should be good, except for women, they get to be evil because I like them more, lol.

I guess you turned your hears off.

I definitely like women more, and are more prone to falling for their shit, but history seems to be silent on them since the first immortals.

They only sell so many kinds of things, and few people make their own totally different cloths than anyone else. Categorization is built right into the system of options. Freedom within restraints.

Women dress the way they do to fit in, and be like their role models, and consumerism and marketing manipulates that, and before then some other asshole arbitrarily did.