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Re:The Quiet Art of Attention by keybored on Sunday October 13, 2024 @01:50PM (#41829985)
These contradictions (?) may be rooted in the reader’s assumptions about the world: the writer says A and B, but to the reader B implies (not A) because of their world view. In short they might not be actual contradictions.

This might seem very vague but a discussion on something so first-person as the mind is ripe for that kind of thing.

Which is resolved with dialogue. If the contradictions are brought up.

Re:The Quiet Art of Attention by mistermann on Sunday October 13, 2024 @05:34PM (#41831825)
> Which is resolved with dialogue. If the contradictions are brought up.

In my experience noting contradictions usually leads to evasive memes and anger/unhappiness.

Re:The Quiet Art of Attention by keybored on Monday October 14, 2024 @04:42AM (#41835512)
Then mum’s the word.
Re:The Quiet Art of Attention by mistermann on Monday October 14, 2024 @10:25AM (#41837838)
Cutting off access to an entire region of potential upward utility...perhaps permanently if no one is willing to fight the consensus.
Re:The Quiet Art of Attention by keybored on Monday October 14, 2024 @11:32AM (#41838468)
I don’t understand what you are saying.
Re:The Quiet Art of Attention by mistermann on Monday October 14, 2024 @05:54PM (#41842419)
Contradiction is socially disruptive, and ignored/policed quite thoroughly, denying access to Humans of pretty substantial portions of reality which is instead represented by illusory proxies/heuristics.
Re:The Quiet Art of Attention by keybored on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @11:08AM (#41849421)
You’re talking in riddles even more than the most hermit mindfulness practitioner.
Re:The Quiet Art of Attention by mistermann on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @05:30PM (#41853318)
An example: if religion shut down early practitioners of science, do you believe humanity would have missed out on any valuable knowledge?

Or, how about if science had only received 1% of the total funding it has?