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Darcey Riley
Aspiring yes-sayer.
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Darcey Riley Dec 28
The doors of perception cannot be cleansed!
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Darcey Riley Dec 16
Replying to @polyaletheia
Huh, what about Book 4? (Disclaimer that it's been years since I read Crowley. But he had a big influence on me back in college.)
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Darcey Riley Dec 16
Replying to @Lacigolana
(In my mind, my moral system is heavily inspired by this Crowley passage. "The universe is the practical joke of the general at the expense of the particular." )
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Darcey Riley Dec 16
Replying to @Lacigolana
My moral system says you are allowed to fight wars. To defend yourself and your people against invaders, not because your people are better, but because they're *yours*. But it says that if you do fight, you should do so honorably.
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Darcey Riley Dec 16
Replying to @Lacigolana
The way that it affects behavior is to teach: if you have to hurt someone or something, try to do it honorably. If you have to kill an animal for food, don't draw out its suffering (and also, raise it in humane conditions).
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Darcey Riley Dec 16
Replying to @Lacigolana
It is a moral system built on empathy and understanding, and also an acceptance that pain is part of the nature of life. It is not a moral system that is built on judgment or guilt or punishment.
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Darcey Riley Dec 16
Replying to @Lacigolana
My moral system encourages people to become strong enough to encompass all these perspectives. To hold within themselves their own perspective, and the perspective of the animals they eat, and the perspective of whatever will eat them.
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Darcey Riley Dec 16
Replying to @Lacigolana
But only those who are very strong, and very emotionally stable, can do this without being brought down by it. My moral system says that, if you are not strong enough, then you shouldn't try this kind of reflection. The point is not to wallow in guilt but to expand oneself.
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Darcey Riley Dec 16
Replying to @Lacigolana
My moral system also encourages people to dwell in the perspectives of whoever/whatever is hurt by their actions. Do you eat meat? Then spend time dwelling in the lives of the animals that died to be your food.
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Darcey Riley Dec 16
This whole thread is a decent summary of my moral philosophy, which basically amounts to "There is no way to live without causing suffering, so instead, try to recognize when the suffering is necessary and when it isn't, and balance your needs with those of others."
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Darcey Riley Dec 10
Unrelated to anything, but I hate the phrase "self care" because it takes ordinary, healthy rest and relaxation and medicalizes it.
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Simon Sarris Nov 7
Tell me, why do you weep and grieve so sorely when you hear the fate of the Argives, hear the fall of Troy? That is the gods’ work, spinning threads of death through the lives of mortal men, and all to make a song for those to come. (Alcinous, The Odyssey)
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Darcey Riley Oct 27
Thinking about "We are civilized because we practice many rituals and customs; barbarians lack rituals and just do what they feel like" vs. "We are civilized because we *don't* practice many rituals".
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Darcey Riley Oct 6
Replying to @Lacigolana
(To be clear I think vaccines are great. Just trying to understand why anti-vaxxing is a popular viewpoint.)
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Darcey Riley Oct 6
Replying to @Lacigolana
It would be like if you could prevent heart attacks by letting a special medical spider bite you once a year. The spider is gigantic and has yellow and black stripes, and you get a big sore welt around the bite every year. But hey, the doctors know best.
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Darcey Riley Oct 6
Hypothesis: one reason that the anti-vax viewpoint is so popular is because injections are a viscerally terrifying thing. People have fears/phobias about injections, and those fears provide a really strong prior of "actually this thing is bad".
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Kelsey Piper Oct 3
The claim that religious kids are less generous made news everywhere. The update that this was a (pretty embarrassing) coding error did not.
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Darcey Riley Sep 15
To what extent is correlation between musical style and lyrics just a historical accident, and to what extent is it determined by crossmodal correspondences?
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Darcey Riley Aug 30
The idea of "continuity of self" is part of the human conceptual system, not part of the actual physical world (map, not territory). As with many concepts that are core to human experience, it works great under normal circumstances but breaks down under edge cases like this one.
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