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@TylerAlterman "If you feel lonely it might be that you havent accepted the truth of interpenetration We have never been separate. At all times a human is a medium for ideas microorganisms divinities cultures signals and the qualia of others to swim through. If you are feeling separate it is because you have created a cyst inside your mind to wall your consciousness off from this disgusting and glorious truth"
X Link @TylerAlterman 2025-10-14T22:32Z 23.2K followers, 10.5K engagements

"Have u watched a friend get into Buddhism & then become passive withdrawn and boring I think Western Buddhism is turning many of us into NPCs 😬 I suspect this is because of (a) a critical mistranslation and (b) failure to import a very important concept: chanda Firstly we messed up big in the 19th century by mistranslating one of the Noble Truths as Desire is the root of all suffering. Wrong This mistranslation NPCifies ppl. They start cutting off all forms of desire & then there's no motivation to do stuff Tanha the key word here in Buddhist scripture apparently *does not translate to"
X Link @TylerAlterman 2025-10-11T13:48Z 23.2K followers, 69.2K engagements

"LLMs are the new source of facts for many people whether we like it or not Problematically LLMs still make stuff up. But since they're not going away what are the best epistemic habits for using LLMs Personally I try to at least ask multiple LLMs the same question"
X Link @TylerAlterman 2025-10-15T15:39Z 23.2K followers, 2717 engagements

"In the middle of a "forcing party" where friends and I are forcing one another to do the things that we've been avoiding So far: A passport has been filed for An inbox has been zero'd A personal website has been created &more I recommend this format"
X Link @TylerAlterman 2025-07-15T01:15Z 23.2K followers, 4.3M engagements

"Today I learned that the sort of Christian-Buddhist synthesis I had in mind already happened hundreds of years ago The Chinese "Jesus Sutras" were written between the 7th-9th centuries CE as an attempt to make Christianity intelligible to Buddhist & Daoist audiences God "the spirit of the void"/the Dao Jesus a bodhisattva/buddha Holy Spirit qi/prana/vital energy Salvation liberation/nirvana/aligning w the Dao Sin resulting from ignorance & delusion Satan Mara (the personification of the forces antagonistic to enlightenment) I think these rough conceptual translations are wonderful"
X Link @TylerAlterman 2025-10-15T16:04Z 23.2K followers, 18.3K engagements

"The more I learn about the history of religions the more my faith increases in mysticism as in: direct phenomenological exploration into the nature of reality Each religion is full of tons of random beliefs that morph radically over the centuries. In each century the orthodox believe that their current historical version is THE truth. They often persecute the people who think otherwise. Meanwhile rites and rituals get tangled up with power structures that enforce whatever version of the religion keeps them in power. No me likey 👎 Meanwhile the mystics across most religions seems to be"
X Link @TylerAlterman 2025-10-16T20:37Z 23.2K followers, 11.9K engagements

"I want to make a cartoon called Multiverse that incorporates fictional characters as they enter the public domain. It would start with Sherlock Holmes Alice Dracula Tarzan Popeye Tintin and 1928 Steamboat Willie Mikey Mouse It would be inspired by Adventure Time with XX minute shorts that explore the emotional and spiritual lives of these characters and their relationships"
X Link @TylerAlterman 2025-10-06T19:02Z 23.1K followers, 1975 engagements

"For most of human history skills were transmitted via apprenticeships. High-trust relationships where the apprentice lived close to the mentor & also helped w their mundane chores. I kinda want to hire for this but it feels anachronistic. Why don't we do this anymore"
X Link @TylerAlterman 2025-10-13T15:07Z 23.2K followers, 26.5K engagements

"I want to host a MAGA + libs party where the two sides are not allowed to talk politics. Instead they do an activity like boardgames. I want to witness the dawning horror as they find themselves getting along"
X Link @TylerAlterman 2025-08-04T16:50Z 23.2K followers, 7M engagements

"I wonder what would have happened if the dems ran with an actually popular candidate like Michelle Obama instead of Kamala Harris"
X Link @TylerAlterman 2025-10-09T22:04Z 23.2K followers, 1266 engagements

"Also fwiw regardless of whether you plan to gain and wield power to actually affect the world its probably healthy to grieve out loud. Then you either move on & enjoy your life or you do something specific about it. Both options are valid"
X Link @TylerAlterman 2025-10-10T11:57Z 23.2K followers, 53.2K engagements

"Maximally cute moment at my new group house in Brooklyn today (turn audio on for K-pop demon hunters soundtrack)"
X Link @TylerAlterman 2025-10-11T23:03Z 23.2K followers, 10.3K engagements

"I went on a 9-day metta retreat that is still transforming something fundamental about what I am. It was with @dhammanomad and a wonderful Hong Kong-born nun named Ven. Obhasa. I put my day-to-day highlights & insights in this thread 1/n"
X Link @TylerAlterman 2025-10-13T21:15Z 23.2K followers, 10.6K engagements

"I'm in a theology arc where I'm finally getting deeper into bible study to grok what makes Christianity so compelling. My blasphemous bible study kit is: The Word For Word Comic Bible (NIV translation) LLMs to understand the many ambiguous proverbs & contradictions"
X Link @TylerAlterman 2025-10-15T19:21Z 23.2K followers, 2611 engagements

"From what I understand though: there were still many varieties of early Christianity influenced by James and Peter that present-day Christians would find very heretical Early strands that got outcompeted include Ebionites Nazarenes Gnostics Marcionites etc These were then outcompeted by Pauline Christianity"
X Link @TylerAlterman 2025-10-16T19:32Z 23.2K followers, 3548 engagements

"@jujubileen Oo Im intrigued I actually met Sophie in Kingston and have one of her books about rethinking masculinity"
X Link @TylerAlterman 2025-10-17T11:43Z 23.2K followers, XX engagements

"@AaronPogue @nosilverv Seems true 😞"
X Link @TylerAlterman 2025-10-17T13:44Z 23.2K followers, XX engagements

"How did you learn to disentangle your self-worth from your usefulness"
X Link @TylerAlterman 2025-10-09T17:52Z 23.2K followers, 25.5K engagements

"IMO ppl r unhealthily obsessed with the state of the world. This scale of focus makes sense if you are eg a billionaire philanthropist famous person or policymaker. If youre not I think its ok to just focus on the state of YOUR world. How are your friends & fam doing"
X Link @TylerAlterman 2025-10-09T22:13Z 23.2K followers, 1.1M engagements

"One term for this is anxiety theatre. Theatre because u r worrying about things outside your locus of control often for self- or social-signaling Is ur plan to gain power to affect things on larger scales If not its better to fully grieve & then refocus on your loved ones"
X Link @TylerAlterman 2025-10-11T10:59Z 23.2K followers, 12.4K engagements

"Ppl who have figured out how to use their phones beautifully - without addiction or narrowing - should really guru up and teach the rest of us ASAP"
X Link @TylerAlterman 2025-10-14T15:19Z 23.2K followers, 57.8K engagements

"Amongst dancers its well known that theres a pre-dance that you have to do before each time you dance. You have to bear 10-30 minutes of dancing in a way that feels awkward before you really hit your groove If you didnt know about the pre-dance phenomenon then you might give up dancing at minute X right before you were about to hit your groove I find that anything involving creativity is like this from writing to schmoozing at a party to working through my own complex emotions If you dont know that all these things require an awkward pre-dance then you lose confidence too early. You conclude"
X Link @TylerAlterman 2025-10-14T20:18Z 23.2K followers, 151.4K engagements

"Where did @Grimezsz go The timeline needs her"
X Link @TylerAlterman 2025-10-16T13:23Z 23.2K followers, 1494 engagements

"I know some ppl would say that Jesus was speaking not as himself a human named Jesus but rather as the personification of what Richard Rohr calls the "Universal Christ" which is the cosmic principle of divine presence pervading matter or of incarnation Taken this way Jesus is saying "No one comes to God except through recognition of God-in-matter which I am an expression of" I haven't found any scriptural evidence that Jesus regarded himself as an embodiment of a timeless principle in this way. But as a non-Christian this framing is nonetheless a useful way for me to transform many of Jesus's"
X Link @TylerAlterman 2025-10-16T16:04Z 23.2K followers, 1450 engagements

"Is it bad that I like Italian brainrot"
X Link @TylerAlterman 2025-10-16T18:16Z 23.2K followers, 9770 engagements

"Is this common knowledge That the Christianity we have today is a religion which quotes a Jewish reformer named Jesus but which was largely created by: (a) Paul a guy who never met Jesus and (b) a council convened by a Roman Emperor This is blowing my mind"
X Link @TylerAlterman 2025-10-16T19:12Z 23.2K followers, 48.1K engagements

"Ok I actually have an Italian brainrot manifesto First of all what is Italian brainrot Its a bunch of ai-generated characters that have gone megaviral amongst Gen Alpha. Characters star in videos with nonsense Italian narration. These now weave into an emergent cinematic universe I argue that Italian brainrot returns us to the roots of collective storytelling: Its public domain: As with ancient mythology nobody owns any of the characters. Its participatory: anyone can generate a new song or story. Its democratic: the most compelling & well-distributed stories become canon. Its dream logic"
X Link @TylerAlterman 2025-10-16T20:14Z 23.2K followers, 8163 engagements

"Two extremes: X. Never give people feedback unless they ask for it X. Proactively offer feedback from a loving place Whats the wisest spot on the spectrum between these two extremes"
X Link @TylerAlterman 2025-10-17T16:02Z 23.2K followers, 11K engagements

"One thing I never realized as a non-Bible-reader is how aggro Jesus was - flipping tables wielding swords and roasting ppl with sick burns The cultural version of Jesus I got is Mr. Peace & Love All The Time. How did this happen"
X Link @TylerAlterman 2025-10-17T16:29Z 23.2K followers, 31.7K engagements

"It seems like when you make the core of your religion scripture youre creating conditions for violence down the line between groups that want to interpret your scripture differently"
X Link @TylerAlterman 2025-10-17T18:53Z 23.2K followers, 2474 engagements

"Some of the most traumatizing features of modern Christianity are downstream of mistranslations and conceptual drift from Jesus's time: Sin Original: Meant "missing the mark" an archery metaphor. Essentially an error Today: Moral failing worthy of guilt Repent Original: the Greek "metanoeite" meaning "change your mind" or "go beyond your understanding." In Aramaic which Jesus likely spoke it would have meant something like "return" ie return to God. So the line "Repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand would have been something like "Return/change your mind for the kingdom of heaven is at"
X Link @TylerAlterman 2025-10-18T14:24Z 23.2K followers, 26.2K engagements

"Look also into what these terms meant in Jesus's time: The Logos/The Word Heaven Eternal Modern "belief" as in "having the right belief" vs the ancient Greek equivalent of Jesus's time "pisteu" aka "to be persuaded of" or "to place trust/confidence in""
X Link @TylerAlterman 2025-10-18T14:24Z 23.2K followers, 2082 engagements