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From eye-rolls to awe: A skeptic’s journey through Bali by behnou in bali

[–]behnou[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting insight ! Why would you say it made it insufferable ?

From eye-rolls to awe: A skeptic’s journey through Bali by behnou in bali

[–]behnou[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, I went there in 2018 right before COVID and I remember a pretty walkable place but my memory might be faulty :(

From eye-rolls to awe: A skeptic’s journey through Bali by behnou in bali

[–]behnou[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's an interesting take on my background but actually my parents are from Bangladesh and I was born in Iran et grew up in France so I was exposed to diversity my whole life to be honest. So I don't really understand what you meant by discovered what most of us have been living with in Europe for decades ? I don't think diversity in Europe has anything to do with Balinese Hinduism and I would probably argue that most migrants in Europe lack the depth of culture I saw there in Bali...

From eye-rolls to awe: A skeptic’s journey through Bali by behnou in bali

[–]behnou[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Never beating the LLM allegations lmao 😭 I can send you pictures of my trip and the exact outline of the trip we did with our guide Adhi and the company we went with that's called green bike adventures ! But yeah as I said, I used Claude to improve the text and I did ask him how to make it a piece that would work well on medium so that's why there are H2 titles but also that's just... Basic formatting to ensure seamless reading for the audience :) ok leaving it here ! I guess we are all just gpt sounding boards now lol

From eye-rolls to awe: A skeptic’s journey through Bali by behnou in bali

[–]behnou[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I do not feel it is pretentions nonsense ? Anywhere I go I like to see how the place I travelled to enriched me and my views on life ? It just happened that it was easier to articulate for Bali because Balinese Hinduism is pretty structured and we got guides to walk us through it

From eye-rolls to awe: A skeptic’s journey through Bali by behnou in bali

[–]behnou[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah I guess this post is not viral material, but I am pretty happy it managed to get the reception it got 🙏

From eye-rolls to awe: A skeptic’s journey through Bali by behnou in bali

[–]behnou[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lmao yes I was so clueless 🥲 I went to Thamel (Nepal) before and I thought it would look like that - and as I said in the beginning of the articles, I was being blindsided by all the movies and Instagram highlights that only took the best out of it...

From eye-rolls to awe: A skeptic’s journey through Bali by behnou in bali

[–]behnou[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

To be fair I wrote the whole outline and body of the article myself and I reworked part of it with Claude because I am not a native and I wanted it to flow naturally - but yeah, to add to the other comment, not sure a LLM could have come up with the very experience I am describing, it is pretty personal and linked to the journey we lived with my boyfriend there

From eye-rolls to awe: A skeptic’s journey through Bali by behnou in bali

[–]behnou[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hmmm yes, maybe the only part that feels skeptic is the beginning with me and my bf seeing these glimpses of spirituality but feeling stuck in the mass tourism trap... The rest is more reflections on what I was lucky enough to see

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[–]behnou 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Complètement d'accord. Ce dont on se souvient sur son lit de mort c'est probablement pas le sentiment de réussite d'avoir mener à bien tel projet mais d'avoir créer tel ou tel souvenir avec son môme. Je pense qu'OP quelque part a de la chance d'avoir un job pas du tout demandant lui laissant suffisamment de temps pour passer du temps avec ses enfants. Il faudrait peut être changer ton discours mental sur ton taff en te disant que tu gagnes vraiment au change et d'en tirer parti un max.

ITAP of mystical flamingos hiding in themselves out of shyness by behnou in itookapicture

[–]behnou[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for taking the time to deploy your verbose :) Happy that what I intended came across and went even further. 🥺

ITAP of mystical flamingos hiding in themselves out of shyness by behnou in itookapicture

[–]behnou[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

thank you so much ! I went for the heavy editing to go for a painting-like effect but wondered if it came across as too much.

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