Joseph Maynor

I'll push back on one assumption here. Is all conceptual story-telling human created?

He has obviously had a huge impact on many of you, so that speaks for itself. I worry if he has too much of an empiricist approach. Reminds me of my same worry with Zen, although this can be good on the path too.

I think the way to frame this is to what extent can my contribution benefit the whole?

People want to project outward and stay invisible instead of manning up and taking full responsibility for their life, this is to be expected.

But I notice people were recommending him as I recall. Now we get a reversal.

I would read it but take it with a grain of salt. He's in the business of selling books.

I should be more forgiving of people who have a marketing-based business model.

Really?

I think his best book is "The Laws of Human Nature" which I read. I think he's overly cynical about human nature though which can taint as much as it can enlighten.

I think is what the Zen awakening gets at. You realize you don't need to cling to theory to be spiritual. But even this in my view is a reaction not a final resting place. It's basically the ability to pick thought up and put it down without that affecting Truth. You can realize you're creating thought.

But politics is inherently oppositional, so we need to make sure we're not imposing a pipe dream on a system that doesn't work that way like politics. It's trying to bury conflict in favor of order. Good luck.

The Feminine tends to look side to side whereas the Masculine tends to look front to back. This is just an insight.

Yes it is.

He gives a lot of advice which is about leveraging power, so I'm interested to see if he can transcend that to a degree. I'm not a huge fan of Robert Greene.

Is Omniscience a goal or a state? Both of these it seems cannot be true at the same time.

Correct.

Okay. I take you at your word. I'm just pointing out if we want to find a defect out in the world we will, and that will only distract us from focusing on ourselves. And that's what we might want -- which is unhealthy long term as well, because we get to laugh and scoff at something as a distraction to doing our own work.

Yeah but there's no need to virtue signal by constantly finding someone to be the immoral scapegoat while also denying that morality exists too. I know this one is a bitter pill. This is a stupid and painful little game. We should be focused on what we're doing or not doing, but that's harder because it requires wisdom and maturity.

Ok. That's the issue. I haven't been following the news. What did he do?

I can understand why you might feel this way.

Ok well you first then.

But you need to get to know someone in person. This is the problem with all this online stuff.

I feel really bad when I see demonizing people because it's been done to me. And not fairly. I've had this kind of treatment happen to me.

How is he an act any different than anyone else? I feel like there's a need sometimes to put down another to elevate anyone's own imperfect ego from criticism.

This is imputing a lot of motive on a class of people instead of actual individuals.