Nikita
@thinklings
Nikita
@thinklings
It time travel will exist at some point in the future, time travel has always existed, therefore time travel does not exist.
This is a move in classical logic called modus tollens. If something is true, it should leave evidence. No evidence? Not true.
It’s also the entire engine of detective fiction. You look at what’s missing and reason backward.
... See moreReading Paley will, I predict, make you better understand the idea that love is attention and vice versa.
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What does a writer leave behind? Scale models of a way of seeing and thinking.
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Paley’s model advises us to suffer less by loving more — love the world more, and each other more—and then she gives us a specific way to love more: see better.
... See moreThe great writer’s gift to the reader are not better answers but better questions, a greater tolerance for uncertainty, a mechanism of transmuting confusion into kindness, and at the same time a way of seeing the world more clearly in order to love it more deeply.
Maria Popova
... See moreWe have thoughts and they self-generate and dominate us. We mistake those thoughts for us. In both Buddhist practice and writing, you have a chance to go, Oh, those are just brain farts. They’re just happening spontaneously, and I didn’t actually create them, and I’m not sure I really want to take ownership of them. At the same time, they’re