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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 5 years ago

until I listened to Alan Watts (around 2015), my attempts at improving myself, fixing my personal issues, etc were compromised by the language of coercion. I made my best effort to be some kind of authoritarian dictator over myself. I made "progress", and fell into a depression https://t.co/3dScHlVK2E

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 5 years ago
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thread https://t.co/yJqHlQ3kau

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 6 years ago

Alan Watts really changed my life when I was inhibitingly depressed around 2014/2015. Life just seemed so bleak - even with a job I liked and a wife I loved, existence seemed like a jail sentence. Alan helped me see that it was funny, in a hearty and nourishing way https://t.co/QazobK21GF

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 5 years ago
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existence seemed like a jail sentence because I WAS MAKING IT SO 😅😩🥺😭 can't believe it. it really happened to me, with good intentions an everything. I suppose all coercion starts out that way. "for your own good"

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 5 years ago
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https://t.co/rjIw2kLPuL

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 5 years ago

you cannot insult, harass, shame, embarass and coerce people into becoming better people. because what they'll learn from it is that insults, harassment, shaming and coercion are how you get things done

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 5 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

definitely seen some of ya'll tweet stuff like this too (this was november 2013) https://t.co/YEaM4q22sQ

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 5 years ago
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now feeling some stomach-churning feelings reading my own writing, it's like watching a horror movie where I'm both the perp and the victim

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 5 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

yikes man, yikes. rough times. grateful that I wrote it down. https://t.co/1N4MlMZkE1

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