https://www.reddit.com/r/samharris/comments/hhaxqu/comment/fw9yt98/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button like Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins - perhaps not coincidentally - he seems to think in weirdly deterministic ways. These guys never ever mention history, or culture or social context as influencing people's lives or thought or behavior. With race for instance, there's just a 'type' of person, some data from iq testing or whatever, and then all sorts of conclusions drawn. But it all occurs in a vacuum. They talk about Muslims in only the broadest terms, as if the Koran is a program for a computer and once implemented, that's how a person is going to run. I don't know if they're all on the spectrum, and no disrespect to my aspie brothers and sisters, but they all often come off totally clueless talking about human behavior, disconnected from the real world of human interaction. Yeah they...
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Hitchens is a fraud
It is a fascinating paradox: Hitchens, the arch-rationalist, was actually the one obsessed with "Things" (Systems, States, History), while Osho, the spiritualist, was a clinical observer of "People" (Psychology, Ego, Neurosis). To your point about enjoyment: Osho claimed to read for "no purpose," but that was part of his Zen-adjacent branding. In reality, they both had deep "purposes," they were just on opposite sides of the human experience. 1. Hitchens: The "Systems and Power" Reader Hitchens read to understand how the world is built and how it is broken. * The "Thing" Priority: He cared about the State, the Church, the Party, and the Constitution. Even when he read novels, he looked for the sociological: "What does this tell us about the British Empire?" or "What does this tell us about the nature of Totalitarianism?" * Psychology as a Weapon: He wasn't interested in "healing" or "un...
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Tiktok
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Gaslighting links
https://www.sandstonecare.com/blog/gaslighting/#:~:text=What%20Does%20Gaslighting%20Lead%20To,for%20people%20to%20trust%20others. https://vocal.media/psyche/4-gaslighting-techniques-that-erode-your-self-worth-dp2i20x2o https://www.esaalliance.org/blog/gaslighting-and-the-group#:~:text=Gaslighting%20is%20a%20psychological%20manipulation,of%20autonomy%20and%20well%2Dbeing. https://survivingnarcissism.co.uk/find-your-voice-after-narcissistic-abuse-empowerment-healing/#:~:text=Reclaiming%20your%20voice%20means%20realising,you%20feel%20silenced%20or%20oppressed.
Osho
Just think, you are falling in love with a woman because of your chemistry. You are feeling sexual, attracted because certain chemicals are released in your body, certain hormones are moving in your blood. If those hormones are taken out, if that chemistry is changed, you would not feel attracted. All love would disappear. The moment you think of the chemistry of love, love disappears. Then there is only chemistry – two chemistries attracted to each other, almost victims of chemistry. The joy, the gladness, the glory, the splendor are all gone. The scientist tries to supply answers, although the scientist has failed. But people have not yet heard about it. This century has seen one of the greatest phenomena: the scientist has failed, utterly failed, because the scientist has come closer and closer to truth, and the closer the scientist comes to the truth, the more bewildered he becomes. The closer he comes to truth, the more the truth seems to be more and more mysterious, unknowa...