Give burnout a chance

Do you, to any degree, lead the contemplative life?

Like 8fold? Meditation? Hermit? …?

You’re making a show about killing money men. Good luck convincing the money men to fund it. And that’s how it works.

Otoh, making video is pretty cheap these days.

No, my point is that the human is smart and the system is dumb. Therefore the human is better than the system for running things.

Hate and empathy do not enter into it.

Let that be a lesson. Truth comes from authority, not the evidence of your senses.

Then allow me to enlighten you.

A system of laws is not human. Tho built by humans. Much like a car or a toaster. And as such lacks the intelligence, depth and flexibility of a human. And is subject to gaming, breaking, and all the other problems of machines that interface with reality and humans.

That is my point.

Morpheus : The Matrix has you.

Neo : I’m sorry but I have all of these investment forms to fill out, can we talk about it later?

Not smart, just an absence of dumb. Is this an important distinction?

You should write children’s books.

What’s mindfulness?

(No links or quotes please.)

Is that a big difference?

Vipassana! It makes my head right. I imagine it will fix anything.

I went a similar way, with the experimenting and figuring it out.

I started with concentration. It was my own personal magic power.

Then I found vipassana. Then I did concentration and vipassana together for a while. That was a bit too much.

Now I do just vipassana. It’s great.

Also, as I said elsewhere in this thread, right after free I’d put “it gets you high”. Because everybody likes to get high.

Like, distinctive vibration patterns.

Hmm, surely it’s been done. It seems like straightforward good thing.

Totally not the point but from that picture of cubicles. What a great idea. If we entered the cubicle from the top we could fit way more cubicles in.

Well there’s a progressive attitude. I imagine a rainbow swastika.

I believe that you are avoiding my question.

It was just an example.

My point is the specific utility of beliefs. You seemed to be offering an interesting one.

Imagine a landscape made of beliefs. In it you are always standing on some bunch of beliefs. So choosing and navigating is going to be important. To get to the good beliefs and avoid the bad ones.

I think that nazi is an expression of trauma, given form by propaganda.

Take away the trauma and nazi disappears.

Take away the propaganda and you get, I dunno, less organized bad behavior.

You people, always so concerned with being right. It gets in the way of conversation.