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   Message 169,758 of 170,335   
   Ed Cryer to oldernow   
   Re: Blessed are the peace makers   
   24 Feb 25 19:16:19   
   
   From: ed@somewhere.in.the.uk   
      
   oldernow wrote:   
   > On 2025-02-24, Ed Cryer  wrote:   
   >   
   >>> It's more peaceful to act in accord with the meta-reality   
   >>> of as many individuals' models of reality as possible than   
   >>> to insist there is precisely one reality, and consider   
   >>> all who don't see/know it less than oneself.   
   >>   
   >> Take a practical example.   
   >> How do you solve Gaza or Ukraine with "the meta-reality of as many   
   >> individuals' models of reality as possible"?   
   >   
   > Personhood/individuality (which is a modeling) being   
   > the problem, individuals embracing said remodeling of   
   > reality experience the peace directly. That might lead to   
   > more generally peaceful behavior with second order social   
   > effects. But the remodeling can't force itself on deluded   
   > individuals: they must come to and embrace it, or remain   
   > in the modeling mess of their own making.   
   >   
      
   It sounds to me like "flower power"; Turn on, tune in, drop out -   
   Timothy Leary in 1966.   
      
   Do you use hallucinogenics of any kind?   
      
   Ed   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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