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We shouldn't control because fear could be our primary motivator??

There's a fine, fine line between changing philosophies because of an experience and changing your philosophy to manage an experience.

Sounds like word salad, I guess? But it is absolutely the truth and deadly if you get it wrong.

A philosophy can validate an experience of nature/feelings. An experience of nature/feelings cannot validate a philosophy.

Getting that mixed up is a quick way dowwwwn.

Fear can also be grief, aprehension, anxiousness, bordeom, ennui, ect.

Also the cognitive response intending to control, inspired by fear, is often a cognitive response that fails to identify what feeling it is even reacting against.

The philosophy of letting go of control because of fear, is basically impossible to logicaly validate, as irrational fear is seen as the core problem, and not something else that can be logically related to and discussed.

These things being true, it makes it very difficult to takes these articles seriously, even though I agree with the majority of their points. It misses the broader scope.



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