Justin Thelukai

It’s clear that AI will wind up funding universal income. Let’s make that happen ASAP.

Magic and sex are deeply linked but not in the ways most people think. When most people go to a “tantra” workshop, they imagine magical sex is all about making sex more magical. But actually, magic is more about making everything that is *not* sex feel as magical as sex. For most people, sex already feels very magical. That’s because our biological drive has projected our inherent sense of majesty onto sex to incentivize us to reproduce. True tantra and true magic rely on seeing into the emptiness of that projection. Seeing that there is nothing more inherently magical about sex than about anything else. This allows us to transform ostensibly sexual energy into all purpose magic-energy that can supercharge our spiritual path. The bliss, meaning and love we find in sex is something we project onto it, not something inherent to it. And we have the power to project bliss, meaning and love onto anything with the same intensity that we project it onto sex. Actually we have the capacity to experience all this bliss, meaning and love without projecting it onto anything. Anything we project externally is a power within us that we can experience without the object of projection. This not only frees us to always experience the world as magical, it also frees us to treat others as co-subjects of compassionate exchange rather than objects to project our need for magic onto. Sex can teach us a little of what magic looks like. But if we learn the lesson well, we can see that magic everywhere.

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One of the things I found really frustrating about public health guidance during the pandemic was that the public wasn't trusted with nuance, so the communication was often over-torqued. I think health communicators should trust their audiences with nuance. "Friends, stop drinking alcohol. Not cut back. Eliminate." isnt' really nuance. It's absolutism. You're offering a pragmatic defense of absolutism, and it's smart to be pragmatic, but I'd prefer we just be honest: Alcohol is a delicious bit of extremely mild cellular poison and having too much of it is really bad in the long run but having a little of it won't kill you. Everything in the realm of diet circles the issue of moderation. Chronic caloric surplus leads to obesity. Severe caloric deficit can lead to death. I'd prefer we attempt to articulate the principle of moderation in alcohol, too

For language pedantry, my rule is whether a useful meaning is being lost. It's handy to have a term than means 'not figurative', so I bemoan 'literally' being applied to metaphors. But I ask defenders of 'decimate' – how often does anyone want to say 'one in ten men were killed'?