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excellent piece on social media and your thoughts

if you're into meditation, you'll probably enjoy this piece a lot.
if you're not into it, or you plan on responding below in a way that suggests you didn't read the article -- you'll appear somewhat as proof of what the article contends. but even if you don't meditate or even spend time on social media, you'll completely understand the weird physical feeling you get from a disturbing thought (a remembrance of a past embarrassment, for example), and the similar feeling you get when you are hit with a tweet (or whatever) that irks you.

the analogy fits: the feelings arising from thinking a troubling thought are almost no different than the feelings arising from reading an upsetting tweet.
the conclusion is to operate social media the same way you monitor your own thoughts - which is to examine what the thought might actually be, and then disarm and discard it. which is what one does often in meditation.

https://www.thefire.org/twitter-as-meditative-practice-why-buddhism-is-true-by-robert-wright-wins-this-months-book-award/

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Hey Gutter Miracles good afternoon. 2 things popped up. 1st Harold brought up that Joe Kent resigned from the DJT administration, to defend the Regressives position on the Iranian war. I didn't know who he was. They just announced on Larua that he's under investigation for leaking classified top security documents and showed hi picture! The guy has 3 inch sideburns! Simple Truth Anything over an inch means don't trust me!
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So, where DOES one go when one runs out of Iranian Leaders to kill?
You can't just go to the Iranian Leader Store....so...Amazon?

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This is why democrats can never be in charge. Everyone agrees that Iran is A threat. What kind of incompetent commander would just wait until an enemy strengthened into an "imminent" threat? The moment any enemy becomes a threat they become a target.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gabbard-sidesteps-iran-imminent-threat-claim-under-senate-grilling

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