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Is this story made up though?
It does feel a little made up right ? Could be true. Could be maybe a little bit dramatized. Derek Sivers seems to have so many stories like this
This beautiful story is one of the truest things I've read on HN in 8 years.
This guy lived crippled by what the story he told himself about what happened for half his life. Then with a new story, a new encounter, he set himself free. Incredibly brave to tell this tale. Some people live in their story about something for their whole lives. They never do rewrite what they make it mean into one that works better for them. People live imprisoned by things that happened 40 years in the past. It's so sad to see, but so common.
It's true that you can revisit the trauma of the past, and transform it and yourself. It will probably sound like woo, but it's not. Lots of protocols now being tested in studies that combine guided traumatic memory replay, with an adjuvant, like inderol (to create emotional distance), or psylocybin (to help shift perspective), all with the goal of producing a transformative reorientation of your relationship to the past trauma. Powerful stuff. "Plant medicine" retreats run in the Caribbean, the Netherlands, and Central America (iboga, ayahuasca) have similar aims: re-experiencing the traumatic memory through an altered state aids you in rewriting your story about it, and helps you get new liberating perspective and transform what you make what happened mean for you.
If you think you suffer from that kind of traumatic memory, you probably already know what I'm talking about. If not, I encourage you to investigate it for yourself. :)
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Manslaughter is a traffic ticket these days?
Manslaughter charges only happen if the driver is drunk or flees. Otherwise it's a traffic ticket AT MOST. My friend's teenaged son, while biking, was run over by a driver who did it completely intentionally. Zero charges or tickets. From my link above >Leah Shahum from the San Francisco Bike Coalition told the New York Times last year that her organization does “not know of a single case of a cyclist fatality in whi…
This is why it is important to forgive your parents. They interpret events differently and it usually isn’t until you become a parent yourself do you develop enough empathy to see how those interpretations came to be.
Finding and preserving the truth about the past is more important than ever. Truth is under attack from all sides, with politicians moving the Overton window on lying, LLMs, the decline of centralized news, fake reviews and comment farms.
If the author meant to say "History is often wrong and surprisingly easy to set right with a bit of investigation," great, but "The past is not true" is an absurd and harmful statement. How would you feel if I hit you with my car and ran, or tried to overturn an election and then said "I'm not guilty because the past is not true"?
Do you know the concept of space-time, block universe, B-theory of time, etc? How physics assumes that the laws of physics don't know the notion of "now"? And how physicists usually start every calculation with "let X denote the set of events", all the past and future events? Isn't that depressing? The future is true, even if we can't know it. (Even in a finite, discrete and deterministic universe, which we can compu…
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So sad that you missed the point. Open up to it man
Thanks for the concern, but I didn’t miss the point. There is no wisdom in extrapolating absolute statements from fringe coincidences.
But, maybe I'm the one missing your view here--could you explain more what you mean specifically?
Do you know the concept of space-time, block universe, B-theory of time, etc? How physics assumes that the laws of physics don't know the notion of "now"? And how physicists usually start every calculation with "let X denote the set of events", all the past and future events? Isn't that depressing? The future is true, even if we can't know it. (Even in a finite, discrete and deterministic universe, which we can compu…
How could that possibly support the relativity of simultaneity? Different reference frames disagree on what is happening "now."
Is this story made up though?
It does feel a little made up right ? Could be true. Could be maybe a little bit dramatized. Derek Sivers seems to have so many stories like this