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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.

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.

https://www.samharris.org/blog/the-pleasures-of-drowning

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vinney...axkl 10mo ago

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.

Bill Cypher 10mo ago

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.

vinney...axkl 10mo ago

Totally