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How do I claw my way our of the epistemological void I find myself in?
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2018-10-23 at 10:44 AM UTCLucy loo
I wish I had the perfect advise for you, but alas, I don’t. I am not in your shoes and I do not know how it feels. I can only try to understand. It would be so easy to say just do this or that, but sometimes it seems you restrict yourself. It saddens me to see you put yourself down, so I think you can be your own worst enemy.......been there.
But here’s what I see. A kind hearted young lady with a level head. A person who does not put herself first, but puts the welfare of others first. I know you have a passion in your heart, but maybe, just maybe, you need to concentrate on YOU! You need to love yourself, such easy words to say, huh? Doing it can be so tough. I guess small steps would be necessary. Maybe set small daily/ weekly goals. I used to write mantras to push myself forward daily; then I’d tape them on my mirror. Look in that mirror and accept who you are, fuck the rest. This is your life and no one can take your power.
Embrace the distractions, they could be there for a reason.
You deserve good things, but you have to believe it and KNOW it. Good luck my d e a r😘The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2018-10-23 at 10:44 AM UTCPeople take and take and take all their lives. They take so much that they get tired and bored of taking. They never tried giving. It's the giving that makes you feel like you're worth something; without it, you are just an empty shell.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-10-23 at 10:54 AM UTCA man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold of the root of a wild vine and swung himself down over the edge. The tiger sniffed at him from above. Trembling, the man looked down to where, far below, another tiger was waiting to eat him. Only the vine sustained him.
Two mice, one white and one black, little by little started to gnaw away the vine. The man saw a luscious strawberry near him. Grasping the vine with one hand, he plucked the strawberry with the other. How sweet it tasted!The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2018-10-23 at 12:05 PM UTCMaybe the distractions are life? We think there is more to life than this...there isn't. This is it.
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2018-10-23 at 12:09 PM UTCGet your focus off of your woes.
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2018-10-23 at 12:11 PM UTC
Originally posted by HTS Serious question. Is this hell?
I've been trapped in an absurd solipsistic nightmare for like 13 years. I want out, but I also don't want to get on "the bus" with Malice and Hydro. Do I just… uhh… keep doing what I'm doing? Do I just keep on having weird, vaguely transcendental experiences with synchronicity - which I'll never truly understand - and content myself with distractions? Should I try to "make something of my life", even though ultimately nothing I accomplish matters and it'd only ever just be another form of distraction to me? *sigh*
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2018-10-23 at 6:48 PM UTCif you're stuck in the void they obviously need a bigger episiotomy. just claw harder...it'll open up.
next time use more lube and bigger salad tongs. -
2018-10-23 at 6:49 PM UTCby donating to my patreon accountThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-10-23 at 6:56 PM UTC
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2018-10-23 at 7:06 PM UTCThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-10-23 at 7:45 PM UTCTry to get pregna...OH WAIT YEAH
Seriously just fucking live life and aspire for things to get better. I don't know you but unless you're a billionaire in the virgin islands with a haram of hawt young roshambos, life can get better and it will if you want it to and actively seek the measures to make it so. I don't know what that would look like because it's completely subjective.
As long as you're striving to better your circumstances, gain more insight into yourself and seeking truth you will never be bored entropic and complacent. I have different types of existential crises' weekly and my life situation can barely be described as living but I have hope in the future because I believe in myself and that I can still create my own destiny from within these parameters.
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2018-10-23 at 11:55 PM UTCDid you even read Meditations on First Philosophy HTS?
The answer is obviously through GOD. It's right there in the first volume. Are you even trying to have an epistemological crisis right now?
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2018-10-24 at 12:08 AM UTC
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2018-10-24 at 1:13 AM UTCDis nigga can't even Kant
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2018-10-24 at 1:26 AM UTCSLEEPING DOESN'T FIX ANYTHING
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2018-10-24 at 2:53 AM UTC
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2018-10-24 at 2:54 AM UTC
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2018-10-24 at 3:19 AM UTCThe universe itself is a void.
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2018-10-24 at 4:02 AM UTCWell, Cartesian doubt presupposes a subject. That idea melts away very easily under the slightest scrutiny. There is no subject, no Cartesian "theatre" of the mind, no "watcher" to call your self, no point where it all "comes together" in your head to be presented to some ghost in the machine: you don't perceive your sense impressions, actually getting your sense impressions itself is the act of perception.
The easiest way to test this is simply to cause a touch sensation in your feet; no matter how you look at it, the experience does not happen, nor is experienced, in your head. There is simply no element of that experience itself in your head. The experience itself is the perception. This is what is called naive realism.
All "you" are is a useful but ultimately flawed concept for coordinating all your sense impressions and formulating a response to what you construct of your environment.
Run with that realisation, what you come to see is that solipsism isn't even tenable, because even your mind doesn't really exist in any way that's more meaningful or real or true than any other potential minds you may encounter. You cannot even establish the existence of a self to justify anything to.
You are a flesh robot, just like everybody else. You don't have any grounds to distinguish yourself. Just relax and let it sink in, it's not so bad once you just accept it. In fact, it's a little liberating. -
2018-10-24 at 4:23 AM UTC
Originally posted by Anal Turing Well, Cartesian doubt presupposes a subject. That idea melts away very easily under the slightest scrutiny. There is no subject, no Cartesian "theatre" of the mind, no "watcher" to call your self, no point where it all "comes together" in your head to be presented to some ghost in the machine: you don't perceive your sense impressions, actually getting your sense impressions itself is the act of perception.
I've heard this argument before but I never really got how it was supposed to work. Like what is free floating thought without a subject to think? The idea of thought without someone to think is obviously something that's never been encountered in our experience but OK, we're Cartesians, so is it logically invalid? Like it kinda seems like that to me but let's try and abuse the notions of "subject" and "thought" or "doubt" as much as we can and postulate the thought which happens without a mind to conceive it. So what? That thought exists, perception exists, would Descartes even be bothered by this? He just says "ah, that thought over there without a thinker, that's what exists, that's the cogito" and bam, done. And I'm still not convinced perception without the subject is coherent, I think the idea of a subject is embedded in perception and necessitates it, but even if it doesn't what thesis built on cogito ergo sum is overturned?The easiest way to test this is simply to cause a touch sensation in your feet; no matter how you look at it, the experience does not happen, nor is experienced, in your head. There is simply no element of that experience itself in your head. The experience itself is the perception. This is what is called naive realism.
What exactly is this supposed to be a test of?All "you" are is a useful but ultimately flawed concept for coordinating all your sense impressions and formulating a response to what you construct of your environment.
Descartes would seem to disagree, maybe coordination of sensory information is also a function of the subject and the fact that we experience a variety of qualitatively distinct streams of perception is further evidence for the subject (i.e. the fact that there seems to be something which both sees and hears, even if these perceptions don't reflect reality, suggests there is at least a subject in which they are unified or integrated), but that that is something which "you" do doesn't seem like any kind of argument against "your" existence.
