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- david...
Meaning Crisis, or Meaning of X, or ....
I spoke to a friend this past weekend who recently took the package from a federal agency, and is likely going to have trouble finding new employment.... I had this experience when I was in college and one of my mentors was dying and I spent 24 hours in a daze really contemplating what does it mean to die….... but you're also the messiah of this one path. Only one path, out of the infinite, got to exist for this version of you. If this path were sentient, how would it feel being the only survivor in an infinite trail of the dead?... Read the full postBeing manipulated to choose life is strictly better because choosing life is a reversible action and choosing death isn’t. A different frame is that choosing life wins the infinite game, choosing death loses the infinite game.... Read the full postI love Tom! what does "to get to Being" mean, in a context where Being is whether or not we get to it? Are we "getting to" a moment's feeling or recognition or cognitive overlay or subjective awareness, or ongoing (which overlays some ontology of time and consistent personhood... - Taioh...
What comes next?
What does it mean to remain human in a world designed to make you forget your humanity?
Love. A whole lot of it. Patience. Humility.
What do you think?
everything and nothing
I think there's something underneath a lot of the fears about being replaced by AI that is determining our value on something external, like being able to figure out new science, contribute to the world, etc.... Awareness always is (?)
I resisted writing about this partially because I’m afraid it’s boring, and partially because of the inherent limitations of languaging this stuff, and my own limits, but I’ve found the process extremely helpful for clarifying my own thinking.... - on“Since the will is designed for infinite love and the mind for infinite truth, if there is nothing to stop them, they tend to move in that direction” -Thomas Keatingbywilfredtr...
A finite being cannot be designed for anything but death. Thats stops them from loving and thinking. Mythical framework
- onI'm not sure what i'm doing here actually. There's nothing left. I am tired of ads. I am tired of being inconsequential, yet, that's what I am.by
Welcome.
I feel you man. confronting how small we are as individual beings in relationship with the vastness of what's happening, not to mention the incomprehensibleness of the universe, its intense
- Amelia...
Where do we begin? How do we start to know ourselves?
I think the most vital thing we need to keep (in many cases, recover) is the belief that people are wonderful: unique, exceptional beings who stand apart from all other forms of life. I'm afraid it is too late.... - onI’m looking for inspiration. What is one video game that you’d recommend a random stranger on the internet play? Why?byGRosado95...
Outer Wilds
Takes you on an adventure through space all while imparting the beauty of life, the journey, and our eventual death.
- Taioh...
“What does it mean to remain human in a world designed to make you forget your humanity?”
- Fredwage...
So bringing this concept down to the ground, how does the common human live out the experience of Being? In the past most humans have put on what amounts to a great social/ spiritual cloak, created by those before them, presenting the capacity to live life with most of the... I see two possibilities: 1) God, who put us in charge: Gen 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing... Thank you! This reminds me of Blaise Pascal quote: "For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either....