वितर्क तर्क (Vitark Tark )

Advaita, Hinduism and a bunch of unrelated stuff. Not morally superior to anyone else. Contrarian ideas. Arguments for/against.

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[Swami Paramarthananda]:

Five Features of Consciousness:

1. Consciousness is not a part, product or property of the body.

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@Camp4 A good portion of that criticism came from verifying that the post was entirely AI generated.

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People who rave about this will happily trust politicians.

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Thomas Carlyle
Giacomo Leopardi
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Soren Kierkegaard
Friedrich Nietzsche
Carl Jung
Viktor Frankl
Jean-Paul Sartre
Albert Camus

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90% of self-help posts are direct or recycled versions of philosophies from one or more of these people:

Cicero
Cato the Younger
Seneca the Younger
Musonius Rufus
Epictetus
Boethius
Michel de Montaigne
Blaise Pascal
Baruch Spinoza
Immanuel Kant
Arthur Schopenhauer

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@jechacas @jiratickets Yes, *after* you make it or at least get some traction, not before that. Paul had his first kid when he was 41, I believe.

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@paulg If a 14 yo is asking about a politician who is in a different country separated by a vast ocean, that politician is either doing something exceptional or something terrible.

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@basilYam It does work.

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Two bangers:

Living in any way defended can't ever see this dying all the way down, the last of the fire out.

Even broken wheels have momentum.

[Wystan @WystanTBS]

You know, for the longest time, even hearing otherwise and accepting it on a conceptual level, large parts of me were really hoping awakening would nuke in one shot all my unresolved social-emotional and attachment wounds and all related maladaptive behaviors without having to open up vulnerably, within and without, fully feeling and releasing all my pains both alone and in relationship, through and through, nothing left out.

No escape.
Not like that.
Ah, well.

Remainders, reminders.
Living in any way defended can't ever see this dying all the way down, the last of the fire out.

Suddenly gradual,
Would that it were easy,
Seeing I'm the only difficulty.
Even broken wheels have momentum.

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@HynesDm The full quote:

"If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs and maybe even your mind"

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@visakanv Are you implying that consuming content directly from content generators is not slop? Why is downstream consumption worse than direct consumption?

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@oog84__ Similar message from @camp4.

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Case in point:

https://t.co/0UsmFK1Eoh

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@chrislakin Dropping this quote a second time today. A person who just "is" is looked upon is often as "complacent".

https://t.co/l4uTa7iiwh

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When influencers post something well known, it suddenly becomes "great insight".

You don't need to have two kids to recognize this. Just look at someone else's kids or even pets. Or better, just ask a schoolteacher.

[Matthew Berman @MatthewBerman]

Having a second kid will show you it’s 95% nature and 5% nurture. It was a major realization within ~3 months of my second kid being born.

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@chrislakin A person is sitting on a park bench on a Monday afternoon.

The "busy" ones make their conclusions and it tells more about them than that person:

- She/he is homeless
- She/he is rich
- She/he works the night shift
- She/he is retired
.. etc.

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@chrislakin Dropping this quote a second time today. A person who just "is" is looked upon is often as "complacent".

https://t.co/l4uTa7iiwh

[Krishnamurti @K__Quotes]

The action of being is so revolutionary that society rejects it and concerns itself exclusively with the action of becoming.

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There are exceptions to this. And people are not aware of it. Not all knowledge is prescriptive.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“The purpose of knowledge is action, not knowledge.”

— Aristotle

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@harshsaver What does it do?

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@unrenormlizable This might be *you*:

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Many got triggered by @naval's recent interview about how his time is not managed. This is the reason:

https://t.co/l4uTa7iiwh

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The action of being is so revolutionary that society rejects it and concerns itself exclusively with the action of becoming.

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@TheAncientSage Falsehoods that appeal to the ego (specifically those that induce fear and FOMO) are most likely to be the culprits.