now that the first day of christmas is over i feel pretty good weighing in on the “what do you tell your kids about santa” situation. im going to tell owen jr “i dont know” and use it as a learning experience for figuring out something society wide and mythological for yourself.
a big part of our theory of children here comes from steiner, so, on one hand the magic of childhood thing and kids living in a somewhat imaginary world and experiencing things on those terms is relatively central, yet i also am not comfortable “straight up lying”, to be harsh.
therefore i am extremely confident in this approach. told my wife to do whatever she wants. for the record i used to work around kids and this was the approach i took if they asked about certain ancient stories or mythology, in certain situations, if it was prudent to do that.
after a while i did just start telling kids when i thought things were real though. yeah kid fairies are real. tell ur parents i said that idc im not getting fired

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28 Dec
one of my favorite closed loop / back door thought implications that is never discussed is that telling someone they dont have the credentials to fully understand or analyze something cuts both ways. its used to dismiss doubt but it also consequently dismisses certainty.
said more simply, if someone doesnt have the background knowledge or degree or credentials to question something, that also means they dont have the means to accept it - intelligently anyway. “you’re not equipped to analyze this” goes way farther than the way its normally used.
ie if im questioning something about the geological record, and i say, does this really make sense? and someone says, well, youre not a geologist, what do you know- thats actually an admission that you’re asking me to take what you perceive to be true on faith, to just believe it
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23 Dec
e-guru: your thoughts create your reality

guy trapped in a burning car: my bad
new age never really went away it just became the default spiritual system. explicitly identifying with crystals and people channeling entities from the pleiades then leading seminars in holiday inn conference rooms just became tacky but its the same continuum and heritage
when that tony robins doc came out a while ago i almost wrote something about it because at his seminars, he uses the term God sometimes. this is actually very interesting because no one would describe it as religious, but it fits and works because of the larger spiritual system
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22 Dec
- pathologizes everyone (everyone needs it)
- no null hypothesis (it never [doesnt work], you just need a different one or didnt do something correctly)
- personal eternal eschatological endpoint that relieves any further responsibility (yes, im working on it, im in therapy)
if everyone needs to be in therapy (not saying no one needs it), then that means that every single person simply by virtue of existing requires a institutional + accredited trained merit badge holding experts just to function

thats why. if thats true then that changes everything
in that way its obviously a type of parallel priesthood. i mean its basically confession right, ur just confessing to someone with a degree or special training instead of someone you view as an officer of God

anyway gm
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15 Dec
every single persons worldview has this built into it, its just that you deploy it or skepticism of it selectively
if someone feels an antithetical way about catholicism they’ll say something like this and then instantly turn on a dime and say the vatican and church authorities were systemically covering up XYZ for years, which, if you take their view of it, would be as vast as anything else.
its fun irl if youre that kind of person to see how fast you can get people to flip on this stuff without them realizing it. for example someone will go on about how insane such a concept is and then if you ask about trump/russia will explain the exact concept back to u perfectly
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14 Dec
friendly PSA reminder that most people u talk to dont have any larger framework that their ideas are hooked into and theyre just saying whatever comes to mind in that instant, so you literally cant reason with them. these two replies were posted within 60 seconds of each other:
99% of people will take something as evidence for their view, but if that same evidence was presented for a different view, they would reject it outright. if u tell them this theyll just get mad and reach for whatever comes to mind first to pathologize u to dismiss what ur saying
hate to bring it up twice in one week (actually i love it) but thats what happened when i spoke with daniel pinchbeck. when i just point blank asked him if he would take the evidence he’s putting forth for his view as evidence for christianity or other religions he couldnt answer
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posted this morning: you may have heard about the tornado situation in kentucky. in my friends town like 70 homes were destroyed. its not much but we are selling some stuff here to raise money for it. we’re like 30% of the way to todays goal here already (~$1100). check it:
hello i will now tell you things that i know about kentucky to raise awareness for our little micro operation here

did you know kentucky has an esoteric connection with japan (its real). in fact colonel sanders went to japan many times (did u know this)
in fact although i can not find my own photos or the tweets at this time, on one esoteric americana roadtrip i went to the grave of colonel sanders. it is tucked away in the back of this nice cemetery. notice anything interesting here btw
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