"Twice perfect."
Originally posted by u/mindseal on 2016-05-02 09:48:54 (4hclcb).
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weird (adj.)
c. 1400,
• "having power to control fate", from wierd (n.), from Old English wyrd "fate, chance, fortune; destiny; the Fates," literally "that which comes,"
• from Proto-Germanic wurthiz (cognates: Old Saxon wurd, Old High German wurt "fate," Old Norse urðr "fate, one of the three Norns"),
• from PIE wert- "to turn, to wind," (cognates: German werden, Old English weorðan "to become"),
• from root wer- (3) "to turn, bend" (see versus).
• For sense development from "turning" to "becoming," compare phrase turn into "become."
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The invention of tolerance is the metric by which all of human history is measured. "What do you want?" is the system's question. Answer with "This" and you've just won the game. ALL the games. In fact you're not even playing the games anymore. You've stepped outside of them into another dimension and you can now step back in just past the goalposts at your own leisure.
Stepping out of the system is tolerance. Stepping back in at your desired position is creativity. I question if someone can even perform creativity without first being tolerant of their subject. Otherwise it's a needy urge to react to the system's demands, which isn't creativity.
Tolerance is an interesting binary. It is a midpoint in a spectrum between the poles of attachment and repulsion. But because it is a binary, you can utterly destroy it by placing all ideas on the same point of the spectrum.
It doesn't matter if you decide that everything is equally desirable, repulsive, or neither. You'll end up in the same place. This is for the same reason that you can't have a one-sided coin. The spectrum will collapse and then there is nothing to run to or from. Once there's nowhere to run, absolute expressiveness is in a good place to thrive. You've stepped outside of the 2D world, into the 3D world, and can plop back into the 2D world wherever you want.
Money isn't desirable anymore! Shit is desirable! Literally collecting mounds of feces on your living room floor is the metric of ultimate worth!
That's creativity.
If you have what you want already, then you can just sit there in your 3D world until your decidedly unavoidable Death once again brings ignorance, or you can have some fun with the infinite binaries of reality that you've discovered.
Originally commented by u/[deleted] on 2016-05-16 04:21:21 (d36jwqg)
Stepping out of the system is tolerance. Stepping back in at your desired position is creativity. I question if someone can even perform creativity without first being tolerant of their subject. Otherwise it's a needy urge to react to the system's demands, which isn't creativity.
I agree that tolerance and expressiveness often work best together.
Money isn't desirable anymore! Shit is desirable! Literally collecting mounds of feces on your living room floor is the metric of ultimate worth!
I wouldn't go that far. Shit can be a measure of worth, just ask the dung beetles. But to say it literally is, that's a bit too much I think. Saying "can" or "can be" is often better than saying "is" imo.
If you have what you want already, then you can just sit there in your 3D world until your decidedly unavoidable Death once again brings ignorance, or you can have some fun with the infinite binaries of reality that you've discovered.
I was never born and will never die. It's only the dream body that was born, together with its dream context of a dreamed universe. I am not my experience. I am a capacity to know, to will and to experience. :)
Originally commented by u/mindseal on 2016-05-16 06:20:05 (d36o6nn)