some people are traumatized in the way that makes you really serious and sensitive all the time and some people are traumatized in the way that makes you constantly make fucked up jokes and have really thick skin and these two groups fucking hate each other
Good people have high levels of empathy, but once that empathy is exhausted, they switch to a state of objective observation. They see you for exactly who you are, without the filter of their love. This is why their anger feels so cold, it is the absence of the warmth you took for granted
@StefanMolyneux I get this. Feels right to my bones. My 2nd thought is, being in this state, how fare we in a society where evil was defeated? Would I be depressed after long? Maybe not if I had been a part of defeating it, then pursue other goals of men. Does death repeat cycles bc lost memory?
A slave mind does not say, "I am a slave."
It says, "This is just the way things are."
It says, "Human nature." "It has always been this way." "There is no alternative."
Whenever you hear those phrases in your own head, you should treat them as an alarm.
Someone has convinced you that the current arrangement of power is the same thing as reality.
It is not.
It is only the current arrangement of power.
“He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft, to effeminate. The ideal citizen is the scholar athlete, the man of thought and the man of action.”
- Plato
“The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.”
- Thucydides
Lift weights.
Learn to fight.
Read books.
Learn to write.
@zedekiahmorse @mitsos_corner People get weird when you try to engage in deep critical thinking while at the same time understand you are living under and exist in way of life that is not your own, nor the own of whom you are speaking with. It is important to try but understand odds are low to engage with 1%.
Doc Brown provides a guy with an awakening by showing him how to see and following it up with a perfect metaphor. He knows how make people see some serious shit. It's what he does.
@Pulpnonfictio That would require disarming the gatekeepers. I think you are correct in that it appears like a challenge. Other than physically opening the layers of Eridu to see what is there and where things have been moved, apparently there's inner work to do simultaneously.