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Adventure Requires Adversity
We labor under the belief that we can influence the future. This belief is both true in one sense and completely deluded in another.
It is true because cause and effect are related. It is delusional because Cause is only knowable after the Effect has occurred.
In other words, the link between a specific Cause and a specific Effect is only absolute backwards in time.
Beware the Backfire Effect
The fundamental absurdity of this cult was obvious to me. And yet my two closest friends were completely taken in by it. Why? Why could I see it and they couldn’t?
Hack Jack’s Brain Podcast 1.1: Aaron Pogue
I’m trying to show the real world by showing a different world. The real world is so much bigger than we can see it as. Just to get through our days, we have to imagine it is small and plain and obeys rules.