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2018-04-19 at 10:24 PM UTC in The Retardest Thread: Fashionably Late Edition.
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2018-04-19 at 10:22 PM UTC in The Retardest Thread: Fashionably Late Edition.
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2018-04-19 at 9:58 PM UTC in Your brain hallucinates reality
Originally posted by gumbo I did ~100mg once, and once was all I ever felt I needed to do. I became a consciousness floating in a loving void for all eternity.
But this thread is still 8th grade garbage.
This thread was never meant to be a work of art. It's about a video I watched while eating my breakfast this morning. Did you even watch it, or is your bias preconceived? -
2018-04-19 at 9:12 PM UTC in Your brain hallucinates reality
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2018-04-19 at 8:20 PM UTC in Your brain hallucinates reality
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2018-04-19 at 6:30 PM UTC in Your brain hallucinates reality
Originally posted by Fox Paws Really?
https://www.quora.com/Was-Albert-Einsteins-quote-Reality-is-merely-an-illusion-albeit-a-very-persistent-one-in-relation-to-Solipsism
Fucks sake
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2018-04-19 at 6:26 PM UTC in Your brain hallucinates realityEinstein was a fan of Spinoza's god, which is the god of all with infinite attributes. All is God. The appearance of you and your apparent free will is the illusion. For Einstein's understanding of the universe was as a mathematically operating deterministic structure. With time becoming just another dimension within space time, Einstein envisioned the universe as a block, where from "outside" all states would already be present and/or implied.
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2018-04-19 at 6:25 PM UTC in Your brain hallucinates reality
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2018-04-19 at 6:14 PM UTC in Your brain hallucinates realityReality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
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2018-04-19 at 4:20 PM UTC in Your brain hallucinates reality
Originally posted by Fox Paws But the problem in your analogy is that your “self” is not distinct from your “brain”. They are the same thing. So I don’t get the analogy about talking to a friend on the phone. It’s not like your brain saw something, then processed the information and delivered it to “you” via Facebook livestream or fucking whatever.
You ARE your brain. So yeah I don’t get the analogy
The self is an illusion, a dream, a ghost. "You" don't really exist. You're just an idea. You are not your brain or your body or the environment that caused these things. You just think you are. -
2018-04-19 at 4:18 PM UTC in Your brain hallucinates reality
Originally posted by HTS Because whether or not it's true kinda doesn't matter and I think about shit like this all the time despite how pointless it is and seeing that other people are wasting their lives thinking about the same stupid bullshit kind of bothers me. People need to just shut up and stop this bullshit mind virus from spreading.
It doesn't matter but that doesn't mean it's a "waste". I enjoy my life and have not wasted it obsessing over this stuff. If anything thinking about this stuff has made my life better. I don't know if this is a "mind virus" and I don't know if that really matters at all. We don't need to talk about this stuff, but we don't need to shitpost or talk about site drama or a woman hate or a whole host of other things either. I don't go around telling everyone I think they're stupid though or that they are wasting their lives.
But you do you. -
2018-04-19 at 1:01 PM UTC in Your brain hallucinates reality
Originally posted by Fox Paws Because her hallucinating brain told her to dumbass.
I honestly don’t understand how you can have all these ideas about the self being an illusions and all that, and still get upset about shit. Like if you legitimately believed what you claim to then why do you let anything bother you at all?
The person you’re talking to doesn’t even exist so why get mad about it
I only want to understand her motivation/intent. -
2018-04-19 at 12:45 PM UTC in Your brain hallucinates reality
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2018-04-19 at 12:10 PM UTC in Your brain hallucinates reality
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2018-04-19 at 12:08 PM UTC in Your brain hallucinates reality
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2018-04-19 at 11:58 AM UTC in Your brain hallucinates realityInteresting video:
Claims that your perception, even your sense of self, is a type of hallucination. -
2018-04-18 at 10:18 PM UTC in So it beginsI like this channel:
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2018-04-18 at 12:30 AM UTC in making amends with stupid noob
Originally posted by stupid noob They have me the option at first and I freaked out and said no then moved to my current city and every dr here said it had to be medically necessary ie gangrenous. Then I gave up for like 10 years.
How did the accident happen? Were you being young and foolish or were you working on the equipment or what? -
2018-04-18 at 12:22 AM UTC in The Retardest Thread: Fashionably Late Edition.I dont know how to delete this post.
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2018-04-18 at 12:21 AM UTC in The Retardest Thread: Fashionably Late Edition.
Originally posted by Malice Happiness is an evil and must be renounced.
A simple illustration is when you choose to do something in an attempt to maximize your own personal pleasure as opposed to an action from compassion, which would alleviate the suffering of others. Play a video game/watch something/eat out/read for pleasure/whatever. Helping others would likely still give you some pleasure, albeit possibly lower, yet you choose not to devote your time to that due to your biological predispositions.
We're also 3 dimensional beings that are trapped in the present in a state or eternal becoming. Memories are nothing but shadows of past experience. If one day you enter a state, such as while under the effects of cancer, where you are chronically experiencing disutility, what good does the past provide you? It doesn't genuinely exist to you. We are perpetually trapped at one point and then it is over for all eternity.
Don't you see the problem with this? What difference is there between 80 years and seconds compared to the infinite. You're always now and then you aren't. There isn't some universal store of how many utility points you've accumulated/experienced over a lifetime, what you've experienced in the past does you no good in the most direct regard, unless it develops you as a person or you derive enough utility from mere memories in times of deprivation, which could be no different from mere fantasies.
It's nothing but being caught in an endless cycle without inherent meaning and then it is over, no different than it had ever occurred.
We lose nothing in death, because there is nothing of us to experience loss. Death is simply escaping the cycle of samsara, of surpassing fear and illusion. Life simply creates a need where there was no need to be met and due to the nature of reality you always run the risk of reaching a point where you will lament having been foolish and weak enough to continue in this cycle when there would have been no loss from accepting the end. Happiness/pleasure is like an addiction.
I'm escaping the cycle and will be free from whatever horrors the future may hold. It is liberation. The only valid reason I see to remain alive is out of compassion, if you believe you can alleviate more suffering than your life produces to others and are able to endure your own personal suffering. I'm stepping beyond that. No more desires, even the path toward a "better" world filled with less suffering, simply the path toward cessation.
I want to stop wanting anything.
I see.
But why do you want that? Why not enjoy the cycle of samsara? If it's just as meaningless as if it had never occured, that what is the difference between ending it or allowing it to happen?
How do you know that if you were to kill yourself now that would actually end the cycle of samsara? What if there is no escape?
