08-17-2019, 02:01 PM
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#188
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Radical Centrist
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Cottage of Prussia
Posts: 31,423
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He does a great job of explaining these things. Today he discusses the quote/idea that "Feelings are just visitors... let them come and go."
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(on emotions)
I suppose much of this is our way of adapting to living in, kind of, peculiarly comfortable prisons all day. All of these impulses were designed for different environments -- designed to protect us when we lived very, very different lives; and motivate us, control us. They would, like, kind of "jet fuel" jealousy, to protect; envy, to strive.
But now look at us. Where do we live? In this peculiar zoo, when we're not even really able to correctly analyze what's happening to us...
...the story of who we are so expertly controlled it's very difficult to witness the outer world. The first system that you have to learn to overthrow is the system inside your own head. The system that's been implanted . The system that we see as "the self".
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Five minutes:
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