Phil Nguyen
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Phil Nguyen
When a word has two unrelated meanings, as with bank , linguists call them homonyms. When a word has two closely related meanings, as with magazine , linguists call it polysemy.
Timothy B Lee • Large language models, explained with a minimum of math and jargon
Poly-semy → poly-semantic → multiple, related meanings; homonyms - same word, different meanings
“Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.” As a couple, you can do one of two things. You can spend your whole relationship laughing at how predictable you both are, or you can spend your whole relationship being offended by your partner’s needs. Those are your two options.
Justin Ross • Men Aren't Assholes, They Just Need Sex
The attitude of spacious passion makes the tantric concepts and methods make sense . It shows why they exist and how they work. It gives you an intuitive meta-feel for them; an automatic natural understanding.
The power of an attitude | Vividness
Tantra can seem extremely complex and technical. However, its mass of details are all just hints about how to maintain the passionate, spacious attitude.
The power of an attitude | Vividness
For humanistic psychology ... religious experience is a direct feeling, rather than the discovery of objective truths. The essential feeling is a oneness overcoming all inner and outer divisions.... See more
However, [according to] the Dharma ... the ultimate religious experience, Awakening, is something else entirely. It is described, not in terms of feeling,
Passionate connections | Vividness
Awakening into the matrix
Romance is dead. You can’t wonder what your crush is up to you anymore because you can just watch their Instagram Story. You can’t wonder where they have been, what music they listen to, what their life is like; it’s all there, listed on their Facebook profile like a product description, their personality packaged into their Instagram grid. And now... See more
Freya India • Rejecting The Machine
And if people aren’t posting, people don’t bother to ask, because it doesn’t cross our mind to. What is real is what is posted, and this is what we think about. Anything outside of this awareness of what we construe as reality is left to the wayside, maybe for the worse. In this case, definitely.
The Thing Is by Ellen Bass
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