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We get off on our own suffering

said by Nevena

“We are actually oftentimes, and I would say all of the time, the root cause of our own suffering. And I would take it a step even further to say that we actually get off on our own suffering.”

Nev's core claim behind the existential kink.

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portal to the unknownEp 9 · with Nevena
Listen at 9:47 Read it in the transcript

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