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Like me, you may have long assumed that reality TV shows were not exact descriptions of reality. Still, I thought this was just at the level of selective editing and choice of focus. In fact, reality TV is not just faker than I imagined, it’s faker than I could imagine. — Read on www.atvbt.com/internet-i-still-think-about-house-hunters/
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“If you’ve seen the present then you’ve seen everything—as it’s been since the beginning, as it will be forever. The same substance, the same form. All of it.” -Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
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These absurd creatures live life fantasizing about this or that pair of eyes following their adventures, trials, and development: an absentee mother, an elusive mentor, or “the one that got away” functions as a mentally conjured juror and benefactor whom the person…wants to please, impress, or enrage. — Read on american-innocence.com/p/kundera-hegel-and-the-ais
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Nietzsche believed that life denying philosophies were inferior. This included Platonism, with its rejection of Homeric morality. Christianity, as the dominant force thousands of years prior, got particular attention. Nietzsche believed the ideal was life-affirming: Accepting one’s fate, accepting reality as it is, and still finding joy in it. And I think that according to…
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We are each so atomically numerous and so vigorously recycled at death that a significant number of our atoms – up to a billion for each of us, it has been suggested – probably once belonged to Shakespeare. A billion more each came from Buddha and Genghis Khan and Beethoven, and any other historical figure…
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the way we think about the world—made of separate, clearly labeled “things” that you can depend on to “be themselves”—is an illusion. The universe is governed by physical laws that are all about movement, forces, warping, and never about peacefully existing in a room — Read on planktonvalhalla.com/20251204-purpose-from-first-principles/
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While you can always twist reality to soothe your ego, iron, with its uncompromising physical reality, won’t support your self-deception. It doesn’t give a shit how you feel. As Rollins wrote, two hundred pounds “is always two hundred pounds,” regardless of whether you slept well, had a breakup, want to lift, or want the weight…
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Reading Wikipedia articles from other countries is a good way to escape local bias, because other countries lack the incentives to prop up narratives. French Wikipedia paints the American Revolution as a violent and treasonous riot that started when Britain required the colonies to pay for their own defense: The American Revolution is a period of political changes after…
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“In that instant, as I stared at the gleaming fish sign and heard her words, I suddenly experienced what I later learned is called anamnesis…”
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