• InternetLefty [he/him]
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    7 months ago

    The latest internet spiritualism fads seem to be so invested in a no-rules type of spirituality that is ultimately very solipsistic. I think it's a result of our late capitalist isolation - some people want to push back against it but others fully embrace it. The idea that you can create a whole different reality based solely on your OWN decisions where other people are essentially just objects in your new reality while you maintain subjectivity is very solipsistic. 21st century cults are reflective of our new stay-at-home reality - why go to the compound with the rest of your Brothers and Sisters? Stay at home, microdose mushrooms and colloidal silver, and have your cult delivered to you over the Internet!

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      7 months ago

      what if these internet based solipsistic mushroom cults begin to refine themselves until eventually someone creates internet based monotheistic islam

  • ElectronNumberSeven
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    7 months ago

    I can’t even dunk on shit like this it just makes me sad. I so understand just wanting to be in another world and hoping beyond hope that you’ll just one day wake up where it’s better and not hell world

    • Parsani [love/loves, comrade/them]
      hexagon
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      7 months ago

      Yeah same, that's why I didn't put it in the dunk tank. I've also wanted to just go somewhere else, to some world which is less shit. I get where these people are coming from.

  • Big_Bob [any]
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    7 months ago

    People who have no connection to material reality will make up all kinds of bullshit ideologies and world views.

  • Parsani [love/loves, comrade/them]
    hexagon
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    7 months ago

    I've read through some posts and it's a bit sad. Similar vibe to readings posts people write about their AI girlfriends.

    • booty [he/him]
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      7 months ago

      Reminds me of this subreddit I came across once called /r/twinflames. As far as I can tell it's like the concept of a "soul mate." I was introduced to it by a user posting about how their life sucks because their "partner" or something (I can't remember what word they used) won't spend time with them. And everyone was like "dude this person wants nothing to do with you leave them alone" and I checked their post history and it was full of this twin flames stuff where they had convinced themselves they had some kind of supernatural connection with some random person who literally did not even want to be friends with them. After a little bit of pushback from people outside that sub they deleted their entire account. Probably made another one and just hang around in the creepy echo chamber after that.

      (Oh god one of the top posts right now mentions shifting, there's a connection scared seriously though this stuff is freaky)

      • Great_Leader_Is_Dead
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        7 months ago

        Twin Flame is literally a cult run by some creepy ex-tech bro and his wife. They literally arrange marriages for people and if they marriages don't work out they tell them it's due to some "spiritual failing". Netflix just did a documentary about them.

        • booty [he/him]
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          7 months ago

          Nah, that's just one specific cult using the term. It's not the whole "community." There are several of these online delusion echo chambers.

  • mayo_cider [he/him]
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    7 months ago

    These kids are gonna be fucked when they discover dissociatives

  • underwire212@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    Believe it or not it also happens whenever you jerk off. Your alternate reality version jerked off to something much less disgusting.

  • LeZero [he/him]
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    7 months ago

    What reading too much isekai does to a mf

  • HornyOnMain
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    7 months ago

    i hate that i already knew about this because a relative got really into it like a bit over 6 months ago or so, tbf she's also 13 and realised it was bullshit after like two weeks so i think she can be forgiven

  • davel [he/him]
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    7 months ago

    shifting is moving your consciousness from one reality, the one your currently in, to a reality that you want to be in.

    Manifest destiny.

  • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]
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    7 months ago

    I'm reading their FAQ and it's pretty crank. The thing I've noticed is that everyone has a desired reality (DR) but since it's extraordinarily unlikely that people will share the same DR due to differences in what they consciously and subconsciously desire, the vast majority of DR would be populated by clones with only the shifter as the "real" conscious agent, which is pretty depressing. Almost nothing that happens in the DR transfers over to current reality (CR), which makes the DR pretty pointless outside of experiencing a particular psychedelic experience or, as I suspect, as a form of escapism and coping in a harsh reality. Something bad happens in CR, you shift to your DR as your clone in CR eats shit, and you shift back to CR after the dust has settled.