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Gunnar_Zarncke comments on Negative visualization, radical acceptance and stoicism - Less Wrong Discussion

17 Post author: Vika 27 March 2015 03:51AM

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Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 29 March 2015 07:44:02PM 6 points [-]

I didn't assign probabilities and these words are too vague to decide between. Make your decison:

1) The worst thing I did imagine was that she didn't actually love me (sufficiently to keep our relationship). In my emotional state that was hard enough to wrap my mind around to. Once I did I could compare the reality of her loving me and her not loving me and decide which was real. And in either case I could act accordingly. It was the second.

2) I imagined needing to apply for social insurance. Losing savings and reducing life standards. I decided that even if that happend I could live with it. I didn't need to.