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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 5 years ago

This is good, and I want to stress: It’s not that your self has inherent worth. It’s you don’t need your self to have worth to love it. You don’t need any reason at all. https://t.co/SCbly4AFQa

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11/18/2020

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 5 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

Your self can be the shittiest self in the world. And you can still love it simply because *it is convenient to you and want to.*

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11/18/2020

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 5 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

So many rationalists got fucked by this. “Love yourself, because you have inherent worth.” Translation: “Swallow this pill that says you have inherent worth, and you’ll be okay.” Fuck that.

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11/18/2020

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 5 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

As a child, I was a Rationalist. I could not compromise on believing truth. I don’t say that as a value to be proud of. I say that as a matter-of-fact about my brain. I could not get myself to buy the self-love pill, and I felt even guiltier and more conflicted for trying.

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11/18/2020

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 5 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

There is no reason needed to love. That we need a reason is a societal psy-op to maintain locally optimal group norms for coordination.

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11/18/2020

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 5 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

💀 societal broke: drill into kids: they better work hard → to be “good” 🦄 liberal woke: tell traumatised adults they have “inherent worth” → so they can be loved ✨ meaningness bespoke: dismantle learned emotional schemas to love yourself because you f’ing want to

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11/18/2020

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 5 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

ʙʀᴏᴋᴇ: get psy-oped 𝓌𝑜𝓀𝑒: psy-op yourself twice 𝕓𝕖𝕤𝕡𝕠𝕜𝕖: undo the first psy-op in the first place

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11/18/2020

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 5 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

Follow-up take: Is the psy-op evil? https://t.co/ULhdpyYIhc

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 5 years ago

Good take from @Grow_Wiser For many of us, drilling into kids “work → to feel worthy” is Evil Our memories of the psy-op are too painful, our undoing of it not yet complete https://t.co/LZXu679HdR

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11/20/2020

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 4 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

Practical v0.1 protocol https://t.co/iMhw3WLWOo

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 5 years ago

Objection in my DMs: “I can’t just choose to love myself!” 🤷 Let’s talk. https://t.co/0zL4QiW8Ij

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1/22/2021

Malcolm Ocean 🏴‍☠️@Malcolm_Ocean• almost 4 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

@AskYatharth https://t.co/oy5FRc0bRE

Malcolm Ocean 🏴‍☠️@Malcolm_Ocean• almost 4 years ago

the idea of conditional love is based on the idea of keeping people deprived of love so that you can control them based on doling out love no other reason there can't be enough love to go around PCT makes clear why this is systematically confused & limited https://t.co/tSia0jntRP

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10/26/2021

james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• almost 5 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

@AskYatharth Yup, essential The difference between something free and gift: free is still a price

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11/20/2020