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from ordinariness
  • The opposite of specialness. A denial of nobility, basically. A more slippery thing for me, probably because I am guilty of this sin (is this sloth? maybe, although seems more motivated by fear than laziness).
from I’m just not that interesting
  • Hard to acknowledge. Maybe it's a version of the Chapman-Buddhism teaching on specialness. And (in that manner) liberating.

specialness

03 Jul 2026 - 07 Nov 2026
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    • In Chapman's teachings, one half of a bad dichotomy, the dual being ordinariness. And Nobility the result of transcending the dichotomy? Or the more basic truth underneath the delusions. Something like that.
    • He describes it as the belief that you have a destiny that is special, determined by the cosmos, necessarily elitist because not everybody can be special (this exact idea may be found in The Incredibles).
    • Hm, I get it. It's like nobility but false, a sort of competitor in stance-space. Slots into the same mental machinery. The sin of pride, basically. It is easy to tell the difference though, because specialness is state while nobility is a stance.