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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 4 years ago

What are second-order emotions? [inspired by convo with @coladaclan]

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 4 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

Second-order emotions are emotions that come up in response to emotions. Second-order emotions are emotions you have in response to other emotions. So like: I might feel shy about something, and oh, it's wrong to feel that.

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 4 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

I found it was really powerful to just short-circuit all of the processing and the apologies and this and that and just be like: Yeah, this is what I'm feeling, and this is it; there’s nothing it means beyond that.

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 4 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

And you're still vibing and you still had the emotion and you still said you had it and still have to respond to it, but it's more direct, with greater simplicity.

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 4 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

It leaves more of an impressionable mark on the other person, and so they can respond more intuitively and naturally, engaged in their social systems, while not having a thing about a thing, or any extra social degree of layering.

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 4 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

You can be so sincere in the way you feel second-order emotions too like shyness and all that it’s so endearing and it’s . . . earnest. Earnestness has a way like that, to make everything feel part of an undifferentiated sameness. https://t.co/QfgbzBnOOn

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 4 years ago

“An earnest being with a terrible quality is not so terrible. It is earnest. Earnestness has that way about it. Of all becoming into undifferentiated earnestness.”

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 4 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

That comfort of having an emotion and not immediately needing to do anything about it. At the same time, it is still there, and needs responding to.

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 4 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

The problems aren’t solved, but the problems about the problems are solved. https://t.co/TcE80GLeSm

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 4 years ago

@made_in_cosmos Self-love doesn’t fix any of your problems. In fact, precisely when you allow self-love to fix none of your problems does it become instantly and boundlessly accessible. https://t.co/3CL2bD8Xxs

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 4 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

It’s not needing to play the minigames around the big game. https://t.co/5O1yJmNXQv

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 4 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

I find the stupider I become, the sharper I become. https://t.co/PobKM2HO6h

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 4 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

It’s part of being a hot girl. Vapid, dumb, hot, pretty, and boom, in the space created by this self-presentation of the fool, there is room to communicate the truth with more honesty, directness, and force. https://t.co/la5Y08SA2G

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 4 years ago

This character came back. So ditzy, fun, and stoopid. What I learned— The fool can say anything. “Fao has truth to share.” https://t.co/Zktr3eoXkW

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 4 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

So much of this is escalating drama. Sometimes creating explicit drama to be with the remainder left thereof. https://t.co/VZP2hcfPHv

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 4 years ago

Drama = LARPing self to match what we think is expected of us. Self = the looking-glass self, when we think of ourselves how we think other people think of us.

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