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hard pill to swallow that more domains reward gusto than perfection

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like look at this shit and tell me they wouldn't be perfectly at home at a ridgewood club

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early 2000s video game character designs really were the pinnacle of fashion

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my sister was really onto something when I showed her some music I like and she said "this is just sounds"

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they live in blessed ignorance and it would be cruel to deprive them of this gift

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prime directive: do not uplift the normies
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A lot of people on here have what I'd call a "Noble Savage" view of "Normies"
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There isn’t anything wrong with me (happy)
There isn’t anything wrong with me (sad)
There isn’t anything wrong with me (angry)
There isn’t anything wrong with me (very, very sad)
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untangling the cyclic dependency of spiritual freedom and deep connection requires making risky acausal bargains with your future friends

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but to connect with others, you must first take the risk of letting them see you; you must wear your heart on your sleeve, let out all your cringe, not shy away from the contents of your soul

Cause no one's gonna find you
When you're hiding in the dark

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a tight-knit cluster of friends who know and love each other is the most powerful social force there is; no outside influence can corrupt their bonds nor usurp their right to self-determination

pursuing deep connection is, ironically, the path to spiritual freedom

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spiritual ossification entails the loss of this quality; many equate this with adulthood, but it need not be so.

those who are young at heart remain free of sin

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cybernetic ossification is a terminal state

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youth is a quality of the spirit, a perpetual maintenance of alchemic optionality; an ergodicity of the identity dialectic

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identify reification precludes evolution of personal narrative

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this gift is one of ways we can maintain our spiritual freedom into adulthood, to hold onto the springtime of life deep into summer and fall; you need not fear change if you know you'll always have a home to return to, that you cannot wander so far as to become unrecognizable

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paradoxically, the deeper you are known, the freeer you are to explore your Self, the more empowered to self-actualize, being, as you are, unchained by social expectations. your worth has been validated by another giving you root access to their heart, trusting you w/ their soul

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it must be appreciated how significant of a gift letting someone into ur heart is; a simulation, just as any cognitive process, is metabolically expensive, scaling supralinearly in proportion to model res

each ratcheting of interpersonal closeness costs dearly in opportunity

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this means that being Seen by someone deeply can counteract the regulating influence of myriad low-res observers; this is part of why we crave close connection, to free ourselves from social chains

those with a few real friends are free from the judgements of greater society

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our tulpic network is heterogenous, with nodes varying in resolution, and correspondingly the weight afforded to their observations and hence contributions to intersubjective mutual surveillance

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often, we're left with a choice between social recognition and self-actualization; isn't it tragic that there's a tradeoff here to be made?

I can't fault those who choose the former, but that can lead to a life of quiet desperation

there is, however, a way to get both

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this typically generates dissatisfaction stemming from the dissonance between their natures and the social role they've been locked into, held in place by the bonds of mutual observation

consider how judgemental people get when one of them goes thru a crisis & starts changing

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