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hospice nurse with a family who creates nature art.
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2024-08-25 18:25:11

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People who try to convince you that you cannot change the world are either lame or don't want you to change the world.

2023-05-26 22:17:36

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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it's a feather bed.
- Terence McKenna

2023-03-05 07:26:19

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awesome. full disclosure: some time in the next 20 years my goal is to develop a bitcoin philosophers conference to be held in my family’s forest. good news, it’s within a podcast drive from troy cross so i feel confident i can eventually convince him to come down, bad news… it will take me 20 years to build the cabins, infrastructure, etc.✌️🍻😂

2023-03-05 06:48:30

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become a hospice chaplain my dude, you’d be great!

2023-03-05 06:38:35

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and then you add in a wild dynamic with regards to physician assisted suicided.

2023-03-05 06:36:46

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so much about identity. and meaning. and motivated reasoning to justify life choices, suffering, opportunity cost etc.

2023-03-05 06:33:42

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yeah, that’d be cool. i really wish i had mysterious secret knowledge about death. the fact that i don’t, even though i’m around it a lot, makes me feel a little sheepish. it really seems pretty mechanical. death (for me) tends to be much less illuminating to the human condition than observing people taking care of their dying loved ones. now THAT is an education.

2023-03-05 05:15:24

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well now you have me curious, do you have any worries of existential risks?
this perhaps makes me a bad person or a psychopath (or, and this is the actual reason: i am very privileged), but i think i can honestly say i do not worry… about anything.
i CAN make a hierarchy of things that will kill me. and thinking about being dead kinda sucks because i dig this life and have a lot of things on my list to do, and i experience anticipatory grief for my children not having a father. but if i’m being honest, that’s mostly counterbalanced with my curiosity re: there being an afterlife + the fact that in the absence of an afterlife i’m not going to even care about the above…
so i ask, do people ACTUALLY worry about this stuff?
i hypothesize no. and this is informed by my experience with working with tons of dead/dying people and their families. i have a strong suspicion that what we call existential dread is mostly a performative signal to our tribe. it allows us to say, “hey look at me, i know the stuff that will kill us, so put me in a position of power within the tribe.”
or simply competitive victimization. or perhaps the ennui of a westerworldian epiphany where we get to the center of the maze and realize we were deluding ourselves into believing there’s actually a meaning to our sacrifice.
just a thought.