Connor Leahy on X: "@tszzl Thanks for your response roon. You make a lot of good, well put points. It's extremely difficult to discuss "high meta" concepts like spirituality, duty and memetics even in the best of circumstances, so I appreciate that we can have this conversation even through the psychic…" / X
To view keyboard shortcuts, press question mark View keyboard shortcuts Messages Home Explore Notifications Messages Grok Lists Bookmarks Communities Premium Profile More Post ratan @ratankaliani Post See new posts Conversation Connor Leahy @NPCollapse · Mar 2 The gods only have power because they trick people like this into doing their bidding. It's so much easier to just submit instead of mastering divinity engineering and applying it yourself. It's so scary to admit that we do have agency, if we take it. In other words: "cope" Quote roon @tszzl · Mar 1 it’s okay to watch and wonder about the dance of the gods, the clash of titans, but it’s not good to fret about the outcome. political culture encourages us to think that generalized anxiety is equivalent to civic duty 29 54 535 147K Connor Leahy @NPCollapse · Mar 2 It took me a long time to understand what people like Nietzsche were yapping on about about people practically begging to have their agency be taken away from them. I
Connor Leahy @NPCollapse Replying to @tszzl Thanks for your response roon. You make a lot of good, well put points. It's extremely difficult to discuss "high meta" concepts like spirituality, duty and memetics even in the best of circumstances, so I appreciate that we can have this conversation even through the psychic quagmire that is twitter replies. I will be liberally mixing terminology and concepts from various mystic traditions to try to make my point, apologies to more careful practitioners of these paths. For those unfamiliar with how to read mystic writing, take everything written as
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