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@EpistemicHope
Oct 2, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
I'm reminded of a comment that I made in reading Joseph Campbell years ago: the east has inner peace, but the west invented freedom.
In the west we suffer, we have to deal with sin, we have to take responsibility for our lives and for choosing well.

All of which flourishes in the enlightenment into the idea of political freedom and self-determination.
In the east, there are paths to transcending suffering and escaping the cycle of death and rebirth.

All that is expected of you is that you comport yourself appropriately for each of your social roles. (Extreme example: caste systems.)
Going by Vervaeke, it seems like free will was invented in the Axial age with the idea of an open, influence-able future.

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Pull-ups are the ones where you're palms face out. Chin-ups are the ones where your palms face in.
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I'm putting this on the public archivable internet, as a marker off the date that I switched to using the proper terms.
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(Quickly searching your facebook posts, I didn't find the citation, so maybe I'm mistaken and you never actually said that?)
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