Julia

The visible is downstream of the invisible | ☦️

[Julia @platulia]

Being sensitive follows an inverted U-curve.

Only up until a certain point does it make your life richer (you notice more nuance, beauty, meaning, atmosphere, moods). Beyond that, it becomes a retreat into yourself. You're not actually feeling more things. You're just experiencing yourself.

The senses offer a useful analogy. Imagine the person who has such an impossibly strong sense of smell that he can smell his own nose. Or the one with such hyperacuity he can see even the cornea of his own eyes.

However, once the nose becomes perceptible to itself, its own smell would become the dominant odor in the olfactory field. Because it sits at the source of smelling itself. Likewise, in the same way that ringing in the ears can drown out all other sounds, if the cornea were visible to the eye, it would partially obscure everything else we see.

So every faculty has a point past which more intensity stops increasing contact with reality and instead starts interfering with it. In fact, a faculty works best when it disappears into its object.

Being excessively “sensitive,” although often romanticized, can turn you into an accidental narcissist, insistent on pointing the perceptual “camera” at yourself, when in reality it should be turned outward, in search of the hidden wonders of a world beyond (and greater than) you.

In this way, you have to let go of your eyes to see. Let go of your emotions to feel. Let go of yourself to be.

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Always wanted a study like this 🏹🏛️📚🗝️🕯️

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@AugustineInUSA Removed hundreds of photos off of my phone. We were never meant to be able to see/access nearly so many disparate memories at once D:

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Weeding out things from your life can be hard but the alternative is to remain in a constant state of low grade nervous system overload

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You have to migrate all the knowledge from your head into your heart

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@LemusaDavid This is what I get for being open minded at a “French” restaurant. It was terrible

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Oh great. So gazpacho is just liquid chips and salsa. Got it

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Walking down the street and a guy approached me
He said I looked so calm :)

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Sephora is Cocomelon for women

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It used to be that weaker men were resentful and envious of stronger men.

Now they’re resentful and envious of the WOMEN who those stronger men are with.

They feel defeated by other men, so they subconsciously start competing with women instead:

Fantasizing about how much easier it would be to “win” if they were a woman instead

Weirdly certain they would succeed as the opposite sex even though they can’t as their own

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Ways to "break the spell" of technology by deliberately EXAGGERATING ITS MECHANICS:

- Scrolling rapidly through your feed, watching how it literally. goes. on. forever. all the individual posts indiscriminately blur into an endless stream of “look here look here look here”
- Asking an LLM absurd or incoherent questions one after another just to see the machine's blank willingness to keep producing "answers"
- Playing a song and restarting it at the same point again and again, until the loop becomes eerie and the illusion collapses. the music is not a live (i.e., living) performance. it is a recording, endlessly repeatable. the same ghost, summoned again and again

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If you’re so sure you’re above a task, you’re likely actually below it.
(e.g. flabby office worker who sneers at physical labor but couldn’t survive a day on a construction site. or “correct” woman who scorns the ditsy party girl but lacks a single fun, charming bone in her body)

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Combing and dyeing my 90 year old grandmother’s hair in the same spot where she used to braid my hair every morning before school

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@MagnusVigso Because you can’t 🙄

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Love seeing all these soccer fans in the street. Like yes. Go Norway

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Have some class and wash your dishes

[Zara Zhang @zarazhangrui]

I hoard X bookmarks and never read them. So I built an extension that injects a bookmarked post into my main feed every time I open X (almost like an ad). Now I read my bookmarks.

The trick was hijacking real estate I already check 50 times a day

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Realized “Hellfire” and “Heaven’s Light” from The Hunchback of Notre Dame are both about Esmeralda. The same exact woman is seen obsessively by one man as a demon and innocently by another as an angel. Who you are in someone else’s eyes entirely depends on their own soul. Especially true for women

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Actions that spring forth from guilt rather than love are false virtue.

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@MagnusVigso Because you can’t 🙄