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DominatorX1 @ DominatorX1 @thelemmy.club
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I think better when I'm calm. So it follows that getting calmer will make me smarter.

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  • You should write children's books.

    • I think better when I'm calm. So it follows that getting calmer will make me smarter.

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  • What's mindfulness?

    (No links or quotes please.)

    • I think better when I'm calm. So it follows that getting calmer will make me smarter.

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  • Is that a big difference?

    • Do you ever get phantom vibrations on your phone?

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  • Like, distinctive vibration patterns.

    Hmm, surely it's been done. It seems like straightforward good thing.

    • Lore vs Gameplay

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  • Totally not the point but from that picture of cubicles. What a great idea. If we entered the cubicle from the top we could fit way more cubicles in.

    • Viewers like you

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  • Well there's a progressive attitude. I imagine a rainbow swastika.

    • Everybody talks about beliefs like they're this big important thing.

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  • I believe that you are avoiding my question.

    • Everybody talks about beliefs like they're this big important thing.

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  • It was just an example.

    My point is the specific utility of beliefs. You seemed to be offering an interesting one.

    Imagine a landscape made of beliefs. In it you are always standing on some bunch of beliefs. So choosing and navigating is going to be important. To get to the good beliefs and avoid the bad ones.

    • When everybody agrees so perfectly. When conformity is so absolute. When dissent is so rare. It makes one suspicious.

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  • I think that nazi is an expression of trauma, given form by propaganda.

    Take away the trauma and nazi disappears.

    Take away the propaganda and you get, I dunno, less organized bad behavior.

    • Say what you will about totalitarian dictators, at least they’re human.

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  • You people, always so concerned with being right. It gets in the way of conversation.

    • Everybody talks about beliefs like they're this big important thing.

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  • Is the phrase diminished if you leave out the author's name?

    • Everybody talks about beliefs like they're this big important thing.

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  • Are you saying that beliefs are useful (necessary even) for navigating other beliefs?

    For example, I believe that my neighbors wont kill me. I do that to stave off the belief that my neighbors will kill me.

    • Everybody talks about beliefs like they're this big important thing.

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  • Which is more important to you, the phrase or the credit?

    • Everybody talks about beliefs like they're this big important thing.

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  • Yes, I am lumping them together. I see no need to distinguish them into internal and external for these purposes.

    (But if I was going to distinguish them, I might at manipulability, portability, communicability. )

    And yes, one may be guided and impressed by a sight as surely as an idea. None of these takes precedence over any other, naturally, as far as I can tell.

    • Everybody talks about beliefs like they're this big important thing.

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  • And yet getting advice from an expert can be very helpful.

    • Everybody talks about beliefs like they're this big important thing.

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  • Easily said. But the psychological power of authority is so big. Authorities in the role of leader, expert, and the authority of the consensus. It may very well be programmed into our biology to automatically obey and believe. We may find ourselves falling into rigid belief without even trying.

    • When everybody agrees so perfectly. When conformity is so absolute. When dissent is so rare. It makes one suspicious.

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  • That's troubling logic.

    • Everybody talks about beliefs like they're this big important thing.

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  • Oh cry me a river.

    • Everybody talks about beliefs like they're this big important thing.

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  • Eeeee, interesting. I'll check that out.

    • Everybody talks about beliefs like they're this big important thing.

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  • Ok. So there's benefit there as long as the believing is controlled.

    Is there a general benefit or liability to believing? What do we gain and lose simply by believing, no matter what the belief?