I really like your framing of home—it seems very close to how John Vervaeke describes it, but somehow your description made something click for me.
I wish to be annealed by this process.
I’d like to share a similar framing of a different concept: beauty.
I struggled with what I should call beautiful for a while, as there seemed to be both some objectivity to it, but also loads of seemingly arbitrary subjectiveness which just didn’t let me feel comfortable with feeling something to be beautiful. All the criteria I could use to call something beautiful just seemed off.
A frame which helped me re-conceptualize much of my thinking about it is:
Beautiful is that which contributes to me wishing to be a part of this world.
Of this framing, I really like how compatible it is with being agentic, and also that it emphasizes subjectiveness without any sense of arbitrariness.
Thank you.
I really like your framing of home—it seems very close to how John Vervaeke describes it, but somehow your description made something click for me.
I’d like to share a similar framing of a different concept: beauty. I struggled with what I should call beautiful for a while, as there seemed to be both some objectivity to it, but also loads of seemingly arbitrary subjectiveness which just didn’t let me feel comfortable with feeling something to be beautiful. All the criteria I could use to call something beautiful just seemed off. A frame which helped me re-conceptualize much of my thinking about it is:
Beautiful is that which contributes to me wishing to be a part of this world.
Of this framing, I really like how compatible it is with being agentic, and also that it emphasizes subjectiveness without any sense of arbitrariness.
Your description is beautiful in the sense that you use the word :) thank you for sharing