@reasonisfun @DavidDeutschOxf @CurziRose @metaLulie I think this is being viewed from an angle that's causing debate behavior and a more fruitful behavior would be to rotate it to an angle that causes analysis behavior instead.
@reasonisfun @DavidDeutschOxf @CurziRose @metaLulie "There is nothing wrong with you" is a helpful but false statement from within a frame that reifies personal wrongness. But we can just decompose personal wrongness into its components!
@reasonisfun @DavidDeutschOxf @CurziRose @metaLulie There's approval and disapproval. There's error and disease. There's a particular parasitic behavior complex that involves reifiying disapproval as something like a permanent blemish and conflating that with error.
@reasonisfun @DavidDeutschOxf @CurziRose @metaLulie Every criticism of error processed through that complex will implicitly posit personal wrongness, and will correspondingly imply a nonsensical causal pseudomodel. ("The Buck Stops Here" or "Original Sin.")
@reasonisfun @DavidDeutschOxf @CurziRose @metaLulie There is no good-faith way to try to correct one's errors by condemning oneself (though there are some very clever ways of harnessing bad-faith to produce a sufficiently faithful simulacrum of error-correction to yield actually good results).
@reasonisfun @DavidDeutschOxf @CurziRose @metaLulie (Judaism imagines reality as an infinitely dominant male who hates anti-epistemology more than anything else. Calvinism cultivates the self-fulfilling expectation of being helplessly drawn towards the attractor of mimicking good, productive behavior despite one's badness.)
@reasonisfun @DavidDeutschOxf @CurziRose @metaLulie Blaming yourself for a demonic infestation is like blaming yourself for having a cold. It harms you and those around you. You can act to reduce the harm it causes. Maybe your decisions made it more likely. You can investigate this and make better-informed decisions in the future.
@reasonisfun @DavidDeutschOxf @CurziRose @metaLulie When I learned to stop dissociating from symptoms like a sore throat & sleepiness, I went from weeks-long frequent intense colds to rare mild days-long colds.
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