My whole life and "reality" is contextualized through five senses and a feeling.
That's pretty fucking limited. And I can't even see the colors "right".
Guess what. Neither can any of you.
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Like WTF is the cat looking at.
Can't even trust that the light that reaches your eyes is the actual state of the thing you're seeing. For all you know what you see was just obliterated in a nuclear blast a split second ago, and you're next. Well, one can hope anyway.
I like your brain 🫡🫂
Dark humor is best humor.
I struggle deeply with the meaning behind the chaos of it all, humor helps, but I waste a lot of my actual present thinking to hard and having existential things bother me.
It's made me a pretty good ranter. But thinking only gets you so far.
It's all infinitesimal and so deeply tragic and beautiful all at once if you're not laughing what are we even doing?
Sure as hell can't take it all too seriously. Embracing nihilism rather than dreading it was the key for me. What keeps me going at this point is mostly curiosity about what's next. Also trying to make other's existence a little less painful in whatever ways I can.
I've embraced it but sometimes to my detriment 😂
This time preference thing is conflicting within me. 🤣
If you want to go hard at this, read these two books. Then you'll see where I come from with my disregard of "reality", and maybe some ideas that leave me with something more rewarding than nihilism.
The Case Agsinst Reality - Hoffman
Existential Psychotherapy - Yalom
Either one of these assumes you've been wandering down this path for a while, have some philosophy under your belt, maybe read Frankl, Kierkegaard, Jung, etc.
In some way it bring me back around to Mises and human action. Praxeology is pretty interesting, and even @knut svanholm's recent book is a good intro.
Bookmarking and screenshotting this. I'm admittedly pretty uneducated. Ive had to embrace audiobooks recently as I just can't read without my mind wandering from once sentence as I continue to read but not process the information.
I doubt you'd find either as audiobooks. I use kindle, and there are defintely nights that I couldn't get through even a page of Yalom before needing to put it down because of mind wander. I totally get it, and going at your own pace is highly suggested.
Actually, it’s mostly contextualized by what everyone and everything else thinks and feels, and that’s a whole lot more than what you listed.
Well I'm not trying to write a thesis, though I do see this rationale as well 😂🤷🫂
Why not? You’d probably be good at it
I observe more than I form hard opinions I guess. Fear? Complacency? There's far more intelligent and intellectual than me to do it?
I don't even really know what a thesis is other than an idea. And I have little ability to focus on one idea. They branch and wind.
I appreciate the confidence in me though 😅🫂
I know Poe, it's so limited it may seem unfair. But at least we can create tools, and tools that can create tools, like Ai. It's like, so this is it? Like just do stuff on Earth? Seems like a kindergarthen playground. Like ants just going around a rock. I mean I am grateful and love my life, but well, it's really confusing what's going on.