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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
“When you hit a moment that felt truly meaningless, did sitting with the feeling help more than trying to fix it?”
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Meaning Crisis, or Meaning of X, or ....
I spoke to a friend this past weekend who recently took the package from a federal agency, and is likely going to have trouble finding new employment.... I had this experience when I was in college and one of my mentors was dying and I spent 24 hours in a daze really contemplating what does it mean to die….... I think there's something underneath a lot of the fears about being replaced by AI that is determining our value on something external, like being able to figure out new science, contribute to the world, etc.... Awareness always is (?)
I resisted writing about this partially because I’m afraid it’s boring, and partially because of the inherent limitations of languaging this stuff, and my own limits, but I’ve found the process extremely helpful for clarifying my own thinking.... I love Tom! what does "to get to Being" mean, in a context where Being is whether or not we get to it? Are we "getting to" a moment's feeling or recognition or cognitive overlay or subjective awareness, or ongoing (which overlays some ontology of time and consistent personhood... - Fredwage...
The Bookend Rules of Humans Living on Earth The Ubiquitously Encompassing Macrocosmic Rule of Human Existence: We are all humans, being; living and evolving in a subjective world.... - Amelia...
I think the most vital thing we need to keep (in many cases, recover) is the belief that people are wonderful: unique, exceptional beings who stand apart from all other forms of life. I'm afraid it is too late.... - Taioh...
- Fredwage...
So bringing this concept down to the ground, how does the common human live out the experience of Being? In the past most humans have put on what amounts to a great social/ spiritual cloak, created by those before them, presenting the capacity to live life with most of the... I see two possibilities: 1) God, who put us in charge: Gen 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing... Thank you! This reminds me of Blaise Pascal quote: "For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either....