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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 4 years ago

Thinking about what we use relationships “for.”

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 4 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

Some dissociative, some integrating, really just exploring. Not much judgment or universalising.

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 4 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

We use a date/partner as a way for our body to tell itself it is valuable and status-worthy and loved.

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 4 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

We use relationships as a way to spatially and sensually distinguish a place we can call home and be our most troubled selves in, versus a world in which we can’t always.

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 4 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

We use partners to co-entrain and become as one computational substrate, processing, dampening, and harmonising the variations of our days or moments together into one. https://t.co/N2zayqw51O

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 4 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

We use dates for the simple thrill—all the tingles—in the right places. I squint enough, and it feels like meditation. A coming home to my senses.

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 4 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

To use another human to hold yourself is not much different from using your own self. Your own body is but disparate cells and systems, united in proprioception. https://t.co/uocRpghfH3

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 4 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

To dissociate into relationship is no less than dissociating into masturbating. To integrate with relationships is no less than to integrate by oneself.

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christian@cxgonzalez• over 4 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

@AskYatharth This is one of those things I’d prefer not to think too hard about. I don’t want to make explicit in my head the utilitarian purpose for a relationship. I’d prefer to operate with the assumption that it’s an end, not a means; even if I know deep down it might not ultimately be.

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 4 years ago

Replying to @cxgonzalez

@CXGonzalez_ ⚠️ Info-hazard warning then! Don’t read on.

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 4 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

@CXGonzalez_ Reminds me of The Elephant and the Brain and this. https://t.co/GMsS5L9mPX

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 4 years ago

The problem isn’t that you’re not bound by morals. The problem is the best way to signal to others you’ll abide by moral norms is actually be bound by them, and you can no longer convince them of that. https://t.co/WiiuZEIuMe

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christian@cxgonzalez• over 4 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

@AskYatharth Ahhhhh 😫

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 4 years ago

Replying to @cxgonzalez

@CXGonzalez_ @AskYatharth relationships are for being human

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christian@cxgonzalez• over 4 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

@visakanv @AskYatharth *me reading your comment* https://t.co/45GIMUViO7

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 4 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

Some discussion of the antecedence of the relationship or dyad. https://t.co/N6v0M0VtYA

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 4 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

Some discussion of the bereftness of teleology. https://t.co/C8OmifDcai

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