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jump to expanded postall narratives are false, at all times, forever, never forget this; all things can only be truly understood by regarding them from multiple perspectives; each perspective is its own lie
your memory is only as trustworthy as your ability to remember the caveats and consider them carefully
there is no sane person who doesn't delude themselves, and there is no insane person who is totally deluded
there are, always and forever, more things in heaven and earth than exist in your philosophy
these are such fundamental beliefs of hikari_no_yume that absolutely nothing can be learned of her mental state at any particular time by seeing them tweeted, unless, i suppose, they suddenly are full of especially bad grammatical and spelling errors maybe
i do suspect something happened to us in 2023/2024. we have always been rather open-minded, after all we love learning languages, and that's a fundamentally mind-opening experience, but there was something that made the open-mindedness fully entrench itself in us philosophically
what we think happened was, a manic arc at the end of 2023 threw us immediately into the tpot/ratsphere, which we'd previously been almost existentially terrified of. and then we had the manic hubris thing for a bit of thinking the rats might be right about everything, y'knowโฆ
upon calming down afterwards and coming to our senses, one way to process that would be to totally reject it all, right? that's a valid way to deal with it, we won't begrudge it. but we realised instead that having a foot in one world, a foot in the other, is so much healthier.
@hikari what's the one world, and what's the other?
@esoteric_programmer those can be many thing! but in this case i guess it would be a moreโฆ i don't know how to describe it, but more โnormalโ mindset? there isn't just one opposite to the rationalist thing, but the rationalist thing is very very โweirdโ in particular ways