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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 3 years ago

on one hand the point of life is to just sorta hang out https://t.co/Ax8aFmscYH

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 3 years ago

the point of life is to just kinda hang out

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 3 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

on the other hand, the point of life can be to - build rockets to space - work towards fusion for energy abundance - help very real people in suffering today https://t.co/no91hUYPes

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 3 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

how to say one is not more important than the other? while acknowledging in their different ways they are it’s that one has public significance; the other may have private signifiance, or interpersonal signifiance https://t.co/gKDBPEMbQd

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago

it is not that the individual, unpublished work has no significance it is that is has no 𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤 significance, and this is a mere statement of fact https://t.co/Dq28RAd3GO

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 3 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

i think the better phasing is that the point of life can just be to hang out it also can be - to help people - to work towards fusion to create energy abundance - etc. it’s just up to you choose a version of the point of life that feels good in this moment https://t.co/sAWus6S4wq

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago

this is one of those transformative tweets since i saw it—the idea of maintaining your local sense of agency, and that as something up to you—ive felt freed in every moment, i can come from an appropriate sense of local agency https://t.co/NktQR5KZxd

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 3 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

if “public significance” is your only metric, then you are a lost soul, and god help you, while you help others

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 3 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

if “private significance” is your only metric, then maybe you still can have interpersonal significance https://t.co/Y1fIHN2KlV

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 3 years ago

there is a world of undeniable meaning to be found in the fact that other people are in pain, or can be made delightful it’s easy to rationalise it away but confronted with it it becomes apparent and obvious

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 3 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

if you are one of the few competent, thoughtful ones . . . could use someone like you https://t.co/D2R9M7IQy3

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago

i met someone inspiring tonight it’s amazing what a well-adjusted home, security, and competence will do to a child https://t.co/URz2i2dPgV

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 3 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

if ur a gifted kid lmao read this https://t.co/SBJDkaCHoL

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• about 4 years ago

"are you saying it’s ok then for oil fields to be left Whole and Sacred and not extracted?" no, son. it’s never ok as long as people are starving, son what i’m trying to say, son, is it's never going to be ok it will never be ok "oh"

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 3 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

when people are healthy, they have access to multiple rungs of meaning and are able to switch between them - private - interpersonal - public https://t.co/3Bqgm3dKw0

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago

that inability provides the looseness (and truth) upon which to maneuver the looseness between right & wrong, between this and that, that allows one to maneuver https://t.co/e33bziHWaD

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 3 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

when people get stuck in one rung or the other, due to trauma, they can spend their life there, not being able to perceive where their problems are coming from gifted kids ~= stuck in upper rung, everything must be understood in terms of public signifiance

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 3 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

narcissists ~= stuck in private rung, everything understood as private signifiance to them, no access to why it might feel meaningful that other people are /real/ and doing things for them might matter

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 3 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

^ reminds me of this https://t.co/pSiMk6R0RZ

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 3 years ago

human beings, trapped in individual close-ended quests of journeying and awakening unable to participate in the larger cultural narratives

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