Joseph Maynor

Reminds me of stage orange on down the spiral. There's no attempt to build a peer-to-peer relationship which is stage green. The benefits from maintaining relationships is not appreciated -- for everyone involved too, vis-a-vis, people lower down on the spiral.

I love the post on reductionism. The there is no x and x is just y plays have been notable to me in my discussions lately. E.g., direct experience is just sensation, perception, thought.

The reason in the artform at issue.

What do you do as a job or career?

Take reasonable risks. That's the key. Living in a fantasy doesn't make a career. A career is grounded in reality and real value that people want to pay you for. This is where you need some planning and intention. Unless you just do this naturally, then there is no issue here. But most people need and want guidance as to how to monetize an off the grid job or career.

You can make a career out of modeling seeking truth for others that they will pay you for. But then they have to do the unpaid work to seek truth for themselves. Analogously, you can buy a Van Halen album which models EVH's guitar style if you want to learn how to play guitar, but nobody is going to pay you to practice guitar and develop your own guitar style.

It's uniquely you. Nobody can do you like you.

I feel like direct experience doesn't need a definition to be honest.

It's one thing to recognize this, it's another thing to try to define it.

It's the grease between the wheels. It's brilliant!

The subjects thing happened when Universities were created, if not before. I guess -- it's natural to class things by category, as Aristotle was obsessed with, after his disgust and/or reaction to his teacher Plato.

Why? Not really, right?

What is direct experience?

The post about defense and by extension reactivity #342 is aligning with another question (re the context of Truth) -- Why are we so affected/effected by isms? Does Truth have anything to do with philosophy? I'm talking about the way philosophy is ordinarily understood not a re-definition.

@AerisVahnEphelia In the U.S. we gotta pay to live here, especially in California. It's expensive.

It's a fascinating question. I feel like we default to think we have free will and that others do too.

This is the beginning of the path. Welcome.

But why does this matter to your inquiry as to whether there is free will or not?

Post us some samples of your work when you're ready.

What expertise does Einstein have to opine on free will as opposed to anyone else?

I'm curious as to what is not wage slavery when everyone needs money to survive in the modern world?