That if you zoom out of the universe far enough you get an atom.
That the soul of man hangs in the balance during the class struggle. Capitalism is a void which devours our humanity, our kindness. Socialism will restore our humanity. Example would be Cuba sending doctors to help other countries during COVID while the US engages in piracy and still ends up killing hundreds of thousands.
It sure does feel like there's this grand "good vs evil" battle going on right now.
I'm not sure how many comrades here are like me, like Che, guided by this great feeling of love, but that's pretty much how I got into this. I'm surrounded by petty bourgeois types in my daily life, so if I wasn't gonna get to where I am now via a materialist path, I had to take a moral one.
I’m not sure how many comrades here are like me, like Che, guided by this great feeling of love
I think too little. Marxist spirituality (in the loosest sense of the word, not karma and spirits and shit) should be a thing. Occasionally reminding yourself what you're fighting for is good for you.
Yeah, I'm not referring to that consciousness separate from the body concept. More like the cultural zeitgeist meaning of soul. You're right of course about dying in a more essential way. That's kinda how I view the US right now in a moral sense, although there's a correlation there between the death of the society's soul and the current physical deaths to COVID.
That humans via capitalism have been actively selecting for having a high threshold for callousness. Antisocial behavior can actually get genetically selected for relatively quickly when there's a major shock, like say when the communal life we'd been adapting to for thousands of years is stripped away for market-based "survival of the fittest". As a result, this is why anglos seem to have such a high threshold for callousness and when confronted with it they insist on making up funny-sounding words to deflect from their behavior.
the last bit was ironic, I just had to spend the holidays with extended family who think covid isn't real and masks are bad so cut me some slack
Well, here’s mine. That cats can read my thoughts, so I talk to cats in my head. Like I’ll ask them how they doing and that I love’em. Started when I was little kid, I grew up in an abusive hellhole, but I had a cat. Not wanting to make a noise I would call for my cat with my thoughts, and sure enough she would come. It’s cringe, and I know isn’t possible, but damn I still do it.
My cat is scarily good at reading body language. I have to look away & pretend so hard to not want to cuddle her when I'm working but she can tell...
That my pets genuinely love me rather than a combination of needing me to provide them with food + stockholm syndrome
I mean, there are studies about how both pet owners and their dogs get dopamine boosts from looking into eachothers eyes
I also experience the ability to detect abusive people and people with various mental health struggles, especially people who have suffered trauma like me. It's actually very frustrating because others don't listen to me when I say someone is dangerous until they've seen me be right a few times. And it interferes with my enjoyment of a lot of media because I get distracted by the fact that I can tell someone is an asshole and that I can tell this other person is dealing with childhood trauma and this one is horribly anxious and trying to hide it... A lot of comedians and internet personalities are deeply troubled.
It honestly makes me really self-conscious because I assume that people can read me as well as I read them, and that they can see clearly that I'm faking being a non-traumatized and confident person. I also took up tarot cards as a hobby partially because this whole thing is basically just unconscious cold-reading, and it's a good vehicle for telling people about what I see in them without it being weird or them getting worried that everyone can see their issues.
Similarly, I get an instinct certain people are bad news and should be avoided, and I instantly want to bully and insult them. I avoid doing so most of the time, but every time I've gotten that feeling I should bully them they turn out to be bad people worth avoiding. I've been told I "know exactly who to be a dick to".
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just as the big bang sprung forth this universe starting at t=0 going in the positive time dimension, there is another part of the universe on the "other side" of the big bang ("before" the big bang), with time moving in the opposite direction, with entropy going the same way as well (so its not like borken glasses are jumping onto tables and reassembling each other). as per CPT symmetry, this 'opposite' universe is where all the missing anti-matter is. Also apparently this would make inflation unnecessary which is 👍 in my book because cosmic inflation has always seemed like a grifter's crock to me.
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matter isn't real, energy isn't real, the fabric of spacetime isn't even real, the only thing that actually exists is information, and everything else is just emergent from that. more here
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questions like "do I have free will" come from the faulty premise that "I" refers to a singular discrete thing. My feelings are that the conscious experience that we all perceive as our identity is actually a conglomerate of several dozens/hundreds/thousands/(???) of processes that often but not always coherent with each other. Often times many decisions or acts that otherwise would invoke free will arise from a disagreement between the "zooids" of the mind and whichever part comes out on top is analogous to making a 'free choice'
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i'm not really sure how much i buy it, but Penrose's Orch-OR theory of quantum consciousness is so fucking out there and bizarre but yet pieces seem to keep falling together out of nowhere.
just as the big bang sprung forth this universe starting at t=0 going in the positive time dimension, there is another part of the universe on the “other side” of the big bang (“before” the big bang), with time moving in the opposite direction, with entropy going the same way as well
Isn't this idea being taken seriously by the scientific community as of recently?
i’m not really sure how much i buy it, but Penrose’s Orch-OR theory of quantum consciousness is so fucking out there and bizarre but yet pieces seem to keep falling together out of nowhere.
Something like this is almost certainly true IMO, maybe not Penrose's exact idea but something to that extent. Check out "Why Materialism is Baloney" by Bernardo Kastrup, he outlines IMO very convincing arguments why a physicalist metaphysic is bullshit.
https://www.livescience.com/truth-behind-nasa-mirror-parallel-universe.html
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I'm pretty sure fungi have consciousness that we just cannot understand.
Ever hear about Mychorrizal networks? Fungal webs that permeate the forest floor and allow every connected plant to share resources, literally making the entire forest function as a single organism.
Between things like that and stoned ape theory, I'm willing to believe that fungi have agency in this universe, and a perspective we can only see in impossible gimpses.
Yeah, and we are carrying fungi on and in our bodies, they have turned even humans into a habitat.
we are carrying fungi on and in our bodies
I guess that's why I am such a fun guy. 😎
I agree with your belief tbh. I lived with someone for two years and was very close with them and learned that they almost definitely had narcissistic personality disorder. Now I find it very easy to spot narcissists. It's the way they act, the things they choose to talk about and (this is the least scientific part) I swear most if not all have these wide, kinda crazy eyes most of the time.
There's so many things to describe, different levels that you'll see depending on how close your relationship is, and as you say some things are too hard to put into words and are more just vibes, but I'll go through some that come to mind now. Obviously this isn't scientific but I know/ have known well in the last 4 or so years at least 3 very narcissistic people and these are more or less traits they all share. There's different types of narcissists too, the main difference I've noticed is that they basically act the same but some want pity and others want to be feared/respected.
The main things:
- They want control of every situation and person
- If they see someone who is empathetic they will seek to latch onto them and use them. If they are jealous of someone they will seek to bring them down.
- Are incredibly judgemental while also being unbelievably fragile.
- Often diagnosed with BPD or bipolar or something similar, I can't speak for all cases but it does seem like it can be because they are not honest about their behaviours to their practitioners. I knew someone who didn't respond well to any medication or treatment for bipolar who was clearly a grandiose narcissist. Obviously this doesn't mean they didn't also have bipolar but if they did the medication probably didn't help because narcissism compounded their problems.
- Huge victim complex
On a casual level (ie things you might observe if they're in your circle, rather than a close personal relationship):
- Bringing conversations to themselves, or if that doesn't work forcing themselves to be the centre of attention by talking over or loudly acting out. If that doesn't work starting a separate conversation or a new one that they can control.
- When they tell you about themselves, things that have happened to them, past relationships friendships etc: according to them they've never been in the wrong (at least not in a major way). Everything bad seems to happen to them. They are so hard done by and are completely undeserving of any of it.
- They probably "hate drama(tic people)" yet always seem to be at the centre of it.
- Often have high aspirations and berate the aspirations of others.
On a closer level:
- They don't care about you and your achievements, this comes in many flavours. The ones I've observed are: pretending to listen and care but never being able to bring something you've told them up; saying the bare minimum and bringing the conversation back to themselves; outright putting you down over it as though it's not worth mentioning or even bad.
- Almost entirely incapable of honest self-reflection, empathy, genuine apologies, or self-improvement. Even on a subreddit for narcissists who acknowledge they have it like /r/narcissism you can see despite understanding that they will never be truly happy this way and cause pain to everyone around them, many would still rather chase the high of feeling superior in their own world.
- Will screw you over in some way and guilt trip you into feeling bad for them somehow.
- The biggest way they exercise control that I've seen is through social circles. You can bet every time something happens they will tell everyone they know their distorted version with themselves as the hero and whoever "wronged" them as the villain. This was the most consistent thing across narcissists I've known, though the size of the social circles were different each time.
The worlds and individuals described in fiction actually exist in some sense, and we might be background characters in something that is a fiction from someone/something's perspective.
I believe this because whenever I write fiction, after a brief like calibration period, I never actually feel like I am writing so much as I feel like I am transcribing actions and events I somehow perceive but have no control over.
I always liked this idea as well.
Each individual is essentially some form of lesser god. Able to create and destroy worlds, people, and universes completely at will.
The power is not total however and we can only sustain the reality as long as we are imagining it. The dream collapses when the dreamer stops dreaming.
You can read it both literally and metaphorically as well if you so chose.
I look at it differently to how you do. As far as I'm concerned the things I write exist regardless of whether or not I actually write them, because like..
I don't describe every individual blade of grass, or every moment in a particular societies history that led to it being the way it is in the 'present', but those blades of grass and historical moments necessarily must exist for that society to exist in it's 'current' form.
Accordingly, since these settings need things I didn't write or imagine to exist in the place, there's no reason the bits I do imagine would cease existence if I stopped imagining them.
that if i dont close the door if I sleep I just get pulled to hell
Your ego has a frame rate. what happens between the flickers? You’re dead. Each “flicker” is a resurrection of sorts.
This reminds me of part of this CIA document investigating research on out of body experiences, concerning Planck's distance and how all oscillating frequencies including brainwaves are constantly "clicking out" of time-space.
Here's the pdf, it's fun. Number 19+ on page 11 of the document (13 on the pdf) is what I'm referring to.
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2DixOFG4pofan1twHZbbpD62EFT17NXokttYYobC-p7iH6Bp810UtlLWc
I think it makes sense that survivors of abuse can sense abusive people.
Abusers seem to have an unconscious way of targeting people who have been previously abused, so it makes sense it would work the opposite way too.
