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Random Thoughts (Natural Hypertrophy and Krishnamurti)

So, I recently watched a video by the YouTube channel natural hypertrophy (which is a great channel you should check out if you have time) titled "I am better than you". In Nietzschean terms he explains how saying that you are better than someone is something society constantly tries us to guilt trip over which is an example of the slave inversion of values in practice. He further differentiates between the humility of the strong will, which realizes itself to be strong and sees itself truly placed compared to all the other geniuses around us compared to weak humility which tries to downplay itself while enjoying the attention it gets from people saying that someone is so good yet remains humble. Instead of accepting the harsh reality of continuous improvement being required, it would rather stagnate itself and others around it even to the point that it starts feeling miserable about itself instead of accepting its true calling and engaging in a sort of Dionysian dance of cre

Stuff I have been thinking about

 I haven't written here in quite a bit and it was like I was bursting at the seams to write about the new experiences I had, so I decided to just compile the things I wanted to write about in one post instead of going through the toil of fleshing out different and detailed expositions in different posts.  I recently started college and in a lot of my first semester courses, we have been studying about logic. The laws of thought such as the law of identity, the law of non contradiction and the law of the excluded middle are good enough crystallizations and approximations for the everyday process of life, but realistically they are like all our systems of thought, nothing but approximations. In a way thinking through thought is like taking a slower and more rigorous approach through the path made by the dynamic flow of awareness. I was trying to read the phenomenology of spirit, and in that it seemed that by very carefully threading language (as also seen in some religious metaphors