who drifted, Sam Harris or me?
I can tell if he stayed sane and I lost my mind, or the other way around.
and I'm not talking about Trump.
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It's been a while since I've seen anything of Sam Harris, and I'm not super familiar with you but high probability it's both.
The tyrants support more tyranny, while all of us became more passionate for freedom.
Covid was the real test.
TDS isn't the disease. TDS is only 1 symptom of a more all encompassing parasitic thought virus. He's lost it.
Definitely Harris.
Probably him
Fragile belief systems
Maybe you now see what he was all along, the king of intellectual-yet-idiots.
seems perfectly sane to me 🤣 
I listened to that episode and that quote was a bit misconstrued. I get that that seems impossible, but it's not.
I stopped listening to his pod a long time ago, his sneering certainty in own opinions disgusts me.
Zionists aren’t in the best mental state
I miss the glory days of atheism, sad all those guys lost their marbles or died. I haven't been keeping up with Harris but our thoughts definitely diverge more now than they did back in the 4 horsemen days.
If you are training or are considering BJJ, Harris' The Pleasures of Drowning is one of the best pieces I've read on nerds training martial arts. That and Professor in the Cage will pretty much cover everything you can learn without actually training. Not much compared to what you learn by training, but still.
that was the first work that put BJJ on my radar as something worth checking out.
agreed with you about the sorry state of post-four-horseman atheism. Dennett is probably still cool. Bret Weinstein replaced them for me, but he's been dabbling a bit into the metaphysical lately. not enough to turn me off, he makes some interesting points.
I do think there is something to the mindfulness meditation that Harris teaches. It is more about practicing the skill of extended focus compared to the scattered thinking of watching tik tok or other super short form content like nostr.
Nothing magical or metaphysical about it, but poorly researched so far. I think the focus of lock picking, reading long form books in dedicated time chunks, or martial arts would probably bring you the same benefit.
Totally