148 - Should I Go to that Wedding?
Godsplaining
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The Importance of Intention
Actions are not just mental events, but they're embodied realities. If you are punching someone in the face, you are intending to harm that person. Your bodily state has almost nothing to do with it because your bodily state is expressing your actual intention. So what is my action in going and sitting in that pew or going and smiling and being at that wedding? What not my mental state, but what am I expressing? Like what am I saying with my body? Because that's what we do in action. And I think that that helps you to be sober in what you can expect of the other to act on.
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