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big_fat_fluffy

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  • There Is No Safe Word: How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.

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  • First, people love to burn witches. Screw any moral, logical or aesthetic implications. They can't even spell it. They just want a witch to burn.

    Second, people love to cut down anybody taller then them. And Neil Gaiman is a very tall fellow.

    All that love, it's inevitable.

  • Fiction is basically a drug.

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  • Surely drug use is as old as eating. From the first time that you eat a strange berry or funky apple.

  • Fiction is basically a drug.

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  • Sure. I'll put it up top

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
    big_fat_fluffy @leminal.space

    Fiction is basically a drug.

  • Accurate programming movie

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  • All programmers are goth supermodels.

  • It’s not censorship to stop hateful online content, insists UN rights chief

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  • Well it depends on the definition of censor.

    If you define censor as, "to suppress or delete as objectionable" (Webster) then it fits just fine.

  • Anyone have solid, tried and true strategies for improving communications with engineers?

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  • Engineers are, as a rule... well, you've seen what they're like. You gotta loosen them up with drugs first if you want a decent conversation.

  • What are some things that everyone should try to master?

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  • In that first technique you hold your attention on a thing as perfectly as you can for a time.

    That thing can be a visualization or it can be any of a hundred other things.

    My favorite is the feeling of breath in the tip of my nose. It's a popular one. No visualization required there.

  • What are some things that everyone should try to master?

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  • We have 2 techniques. The Buddhists call them samatha and vipassana. They go by other names, in other traditions, too.We start with samatha, because it's easy. Just takes diligent effort.In samatha you hold your attention upon a thing (called your "object") as perfectly as you can for a time.You can use pretty much anything as your object. But some work better than others and some work differently for different people.So experimentation is called for there.Popular objects are mantras (a repeated word), visualizations, sights (like a candle flame), sounds (the wind in the trees), the feeling of breath in the tip of your nose. Lots of room for experimentation there. I like that last one especially.Here's a nice overview : http://fleen.org/fluffy_cloud (he calls the techniques "shrink" and "grow"). A couple nice books on the subject are "Journey of Awakening" by Ram Dass and "Meditation, the First and Last Freedom", by Osho.Ultimately you will need to do your own research, perform your own experiments and become your own expert.

  • What are some things that everyone should try to master?

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  • Experiment with different techniques. There's a method there that you can get a handle on.

  • What are some things that everyone should try to master?

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  • Control of your attention. Because it is the axis of reality.

  • It's called semantic processing differences

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  • you see dicks everywhere?

  • It's called semantic processing differences

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  • Amazon logo looks a bit like a dick

  • A delicate balance

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  • Yeah but it isn't the key central focus of the deal anymore then. It's just a convenient accessory.

  • A delicate balance

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  • We can still observe and discuss methods for making observations.

  • A delicate balance

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  • Yes. Hypotheses. Ideas.

  • A delicate balance

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  • But the point of the scientific method is to get us high-quality ideas. How would that cure the derangement of an idea-centered perspective?.

    Maybe if you removed the model-making part. Leave the primacy of observation and the utility of peer-review. Maybe.

  • A delicate balance

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  • There is also the assumption of the central importance of ideas, which is a rather deranged perspective when you think about it.

    Don't get me wrong, ideas have high utility, for memory and language and such, but still.

    An idea is just a little thing, and any association between it and the rest of reality is purely contrived.

  • Do you often dumb-down what you say on social media?

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  • I relate. I edit, then edit again. How anybody can come up with the right words the first time is beyond me. And ya, brevity is power.

  • Do you often dumb-down what you say on social media?

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  • You want real-ass harry potter magic? ADHD/Sperg/Autist is the gateway. I think that this is missing from the alternative. Like you have an itty bitty piece of 3d matter embedded in your 2d, flatland-living, flatland-society self.

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
    big_fat_fluffy @leminal.space

    Do you often dumb-down what you say on social media?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    big_fat_fluffy @leminal.space

    Do you prefer a polite request with an implicit punishment-threat or an outright demand with an explicit punishment-threat? Also, why?

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
    big_fat_fluffy @leminal.space

    What do you worry about the most?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    big_fat_fluffy @leminal.space

    Reality is made of the physical world and talk, but talk has recently gotten much bigger. How has this changed reality?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    big_fat_fluffy @leminal.space

    Are the dreams of youth the regrets of maturity? Really?