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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
“Has a strange or unexplained moment ever made you question something you were totally sure about?”
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We have the option to see everything in your life as collaborative; we are scared to say this because we don't want to victim-blame but we're also scared of the possibilities and transcendence that opens up
OK I’ve tried talking about this before and it always feels impossible, but it also feels super important, so here goes, relatively uncensored (meaning super philosophical, my apologies and hope some of you enjoy!): “We have the option to see everything in your life as... construed from the individual’s perspective and assuming death is the end of the road in some materialist sense; but from the collective point of view i’m not so sure. I really haven’t thought about it a lot so i’m not taking a big stand here.... We need to recover the idea of the Soul from its destruction at the hands of modern metaphysics and its distortion in traditional Christianity.
Modernity dismantled the notion of the soul. It took the human being apart to see how we work and said "well, there's no part labelled soul in here, so I guess that's not a thing." But we actually implicitly live as if there were such a thing as a soul.... - Cara Riane...
What a Clock Actually Measures: Why physics never proved time exists
We are told that clocks measure time. We repeat it casually, as if it were discovered rather than assumed. But pause long enough — and the statement begins to thin. A clock ticks. Metal shifts. Crystals vibrate. Atoms oscillate with disciplined regularity.... I get split here. I think thinking of "them" as beings could just be creating a manifold with which to engage in the supercomputer of the unconscious mind but trying to access this manifold by not believing doesn’t seem to happen much.... yeah so many good weird ideas, plus a lot of emotion and beautiful metaphors while exploring what even is a person, what is consciousness, etc; I watched it when it came out and now I’m fondly remembering it and would enjoy watching it again!... - onI just noticed how the "no-self" doctrine supports the "materialist industrial epistemological complex"by
Hi everyone, happy to be here. A bit of nuance: I wouldn't say it supports it, though it is frequently forced into that direction. I guess one of the main issues is trying to get an epistemic answer to a metaphysical conundrum.... - onWe have the option to see everything in your life as collaborative; we are scared to say this because we don't want to victim-blame but we're also scared of the possibilities and transcendence that opens upby
* For anthropic principle type reasons, universes that never get observed are useless to think about, so from a pragmatic perspective they don't exist.... This is dope, thank you. this evokes in me time as (perhaps) nothing more than a mental arrangement of relationships between states. The "passage" of time is methodology that entwines "subjectivity" with "objectivity" rather than either a subjective experience or an objective... Transcript from Alex Zhu AMA: The Second Coming of Distributed Christ Consciousness
A live recorded conversation on UpTrust between Pete Michaud and Alex Zhu. Watch the recording or see the original AMA post, where the live questions came from. Bridging These Worlds Is My Job Description [00:00:00] Pete: Hi, Alex. Welcome. Thanks for coming and doing the AMA.... Second Coming <--> Positive Singularity <--> Steel-UpTrust? pt 2
Link to part 1: https://uptrusting.com/post/LN01VP Note: Originally written for the participants of the AI alignment X spirituality/metaphysics retreats I’ve co-hosted with Jordan and Anna Salamon, so there may be some references to ideas or people you don’t know.... - IsaiahM...
HI, I died and saw God. It's way more rich than you might think. Think higher dimensional planes and all religions being right more or less. Just diff words colored by historical and cultural nuance.... This is awesome. I have long thought something very similar to this is what was happening on the subtle realm*, with subtle energy. This validates the gist of the hypothesis.... - Editec...
- Jollyroger...
Hello all, very new here. I am currently building a framwork based on the dynamics of how history corrects memory. One of the main cruxes and implications of the framework is that all structures are memories of interaction events.... - Sapoe Verdey...
Hi! i’m a neurospicy philosopher interested in metaphysics and ontology, and systems of ethics and governance. My other fascinations include dark psychology and religious cults— specifically the intersection of cults and true...