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This is the channel for the discussion of metaphysical and parapsychological subjects. Please keep discussion of these topics to this channel and out of the rest of the server.
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I feel like this should be at least the one place on this server where we don't have to fend off skeptics because if we don't have that space, then where do discussions flourish?
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I do believe there's a connection in the brain to something beyond space and time, but quantum is an inappropriate automatic conclusion
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it's not the conclusion though
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I don't think there should ever be a place where beliefs are completely unassailable. Those are comforting but dangerous.
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it's just the latest thinking in science more or less, and every time this happens, it's later supplanted by still deeper thinking about the topic, it's inevitable (edited)
5:43 PM
so science always is in pursuit of the reality in which we are immersed
5:44 PM
but it's never quite there, is it.
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what imposed visuals I posted earlier seemed to be implying is that emotional energy works by the timing and placement of some part of atomic or subatomic particles and the stimulation we feel is an illusion
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So then you have the option to build your beliefs based off of that which we can presume through rigor to be mostly true. Or you can make up your own beliefs based on little more than what you feel to be right.
5:45 PM
Sometimes you don't have a choice and must default to the latter when there are gaps.
5:45 PM
But I'd say the former is more valuable as a modelling structure.
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I think there is a lot to be said for intuition.
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I agree. But there is also a lot to be said against it.
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not really.
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Chiefly that it is designed to produce valid results without understanding.
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without the illusion of understanding that which you obviously don't
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I've come to the conclusion that there's a time for science to guide philosophy and a time for philosophy to guide science, but insisting rigorously on one or the other inhibits progress
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I actually think I seperate philosophy and science entirely. Science is pragmatic, it pertains to truth. Truth is amoral or even immoral.
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i think you guys need a #skeptics channel or something
5:48 PM
none of this has much to do with metaphysics
5:49 PM
but it sure is grinding up all the energy that would have gone into such a delightful metaphysical conversation
5:49 PM
so again, point of order, are you on topic and if not would you please move along k'thx'bye
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I'm not sure what metaphysical conversation you think I'm stifling, but by all means please have it. I would be curious to see where it goes.
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sorry,
5:52 PM
as i have already just now explained
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you precluded that from unfolding
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and I'm moving on
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I hope next time I try
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you're offline
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Zen
I actually think I seperate philosophy and science entirely. Science is pragmatic, it pertains to truth. Truth is amoral or even immoral.
one is the hard fact and the other is the implication, but I think you can also go from emotional ideals to hard facts through deduction if the universe truly is a reflection of some higher order or set of ideals
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On the point of philosophy though. My conclusion scientifically is that morals are essentially arbitrary in nature. Just another pragmatic construct we have inside our heads to make us work better together. That being said, I kind of think it is important to indulge this mechanism. Even if it's just for pragmatic reasons.
5:53 PM
Ethics should be important. But just to us.
5:54 PM
It is important to believe in things you want to be true, as death would say.
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Zen
On the point of philosophy though. My conclusion scientifically is that morals are essentially arbitrary in nature. Just another pragmatic construct we have inside our heads to make us work better together. That being said, I kind of think it is important to indulge this mechanism. Even if it's just for pragmatic reasons.
in either case you're still using morals if your morals are to ignore philosophy. If using morals is arbitrary than choosing not to use morals is also arbitrary
5:55 PM
the idea with philosophy is that you can sense when something is missing about a certain idea, whereas with science you can only work on what you already have
5:56 PM
if there are parallel universes then there also has to be a set of higher ideals that intersects all possible universes so that each universe can be an expression of that
5:56 PM
just in different forms
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Zen
On the point of philosophy though. My conclusion scientifically is that morals are essentially arbitrary in nature. Just another pragmatic construct we have inside our heads to make us work better together. That being said, I kind of think it is important to indulge this mechanism. Even if it's just for pragmatic reasons.
Is that your scientific conclusion. That "morals" are something innate to us, inside us? XD
5:56 PM
morals aren't real,
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reality is amoral
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cope.
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? That's literally what I just said.
5:57 PM
what you literally just said was, literally, and I'll quote you
5:57 PM
My conclusion scientifically is that morals are ... (just) another pragmatic construct we have inside our heads to make us work better together. (edited)
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Something can be an illusion and still be important?
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You need to step up another level of abstraction
5:58 PM
and look at "morality" as a whole
5:58 PM
otherwise, you're not really being scientific
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I am aware that morality is cosmically irrelevant, that's not what I'm saying.
5:59 PM
I'm saying purely that it is a functional construct that is vital for our cohesion.
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And therefore needs to be reinforced.
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you're talking about these keywords endlessly (edited)
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waving its flag
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"here, think about morality" (edited)
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"think about how everything's deterministic" (edited)
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"think about how humanity sucks" (edited)
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i mean, it's basically anti-science anti-meta propaganda
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theology almost
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Humanity's great.
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I'm not sure what you're getting at.
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i'm saying you really don't belong in here doing those things
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the way I interpret emotions is that it is the expression of chaos itself, but that chaos originates from something deeper which we can't control, and that result is the same in all people
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I don't know how to do this formally
6:02 PM
but please would you stop and go away until I no longer associate you with broad-based skepticism ?
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Hmm. No.
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6:05 PM
If you are so angry. Perhaps you should go and calm down, rather than attempting to lash out and essentially exile someone else on a public forum? I do not believe I am harassing you, and I have dropped the subject of the previous conversation. I do not intend to leave to gratify someone else however.
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I'm pretty aware of what I'm doing, it's kind of funny, but I apologize. My imposed visions started to show me emotional voids in people like planets around them and I realized you can just focus in on when somebody's showing greed or fear until something breaks
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A curious thing to say. That's essentially how people describe learning to read auras y'know?
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drawing on your emotions in visual imposed form like that is probably the best occult power I've found and is much better than the other occult practices I've studied
6:09 PM
yeah pretty much. I found it was just me drawing on my own unconscious though and I experimented with it until I got to the conclusion I hold today
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I can see it being useful. I imagine it must be based on something, even if it's just translating subtle ques into something more dramatic. Not perfect of course.
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Zen
I can see it being useful. I imagine it must be based on something, even if it's just translating subtle ques into something more dramatic. Not perfect of course.
it's exactly that. Basically it's like art being a reflection of the artist, but you can also use it to compare ideas visually and see what happens
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even though it made my visualization skills top notch this didn't seem to have any effect on me or the world in the order of chaos magic no matter how I projected my will, emotions, and so on
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I tried doing the same feeling I use in my head toward my heart and body and it seems like it was pumping out emotions into my room, which I'm pretty sensitive to
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but I couldn't seem to manipulate it outside my body
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I'd say the best possible usage is as a telescope or map into different ideas or as an accidental suggestion as to how something could be solved
6:16 PM
I'm not sure what form the emotional energy takes outside my body but I've come to the conclusion that crystals aren't a better conductor of it than your favorite t-shirt with all its emotions on it. From there I came to the conclusion that its all in the timing and placement of particles because that would be typical of something that doesn't interact with anything else in any way. It's reactive rather than proactive, like a "ping" not a magic gas
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Well it would stand to reason that "arcane" materials would only work so far as you believe in them. Whereas you describe a strong resonance with art, so if something is artistic I imagine that would be sufficient for you.
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chroma
none of this has much to do with metaphysics
Unfastened Belts 7/16/2021 6:18 PM
Outside of the tulpa community, "metaphysical" just means general observations about the nature of life/the universe
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As well as having history with it
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Unfastened Belts 7/16/2021 6:19 PM
Meta talk about physics
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:p
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with that the only way to "charge" something is to focus your will on the intended emotion, then merely interact with it normally, and every part of it eventually synchronizes with your emotional will
6:20 PM
and that could be why things look like they've been placed "angrily" or so on for no obvious reason
6:21 PM
it's just a case of the higher fractal creating the form of the lower fractal accidentally
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Interesting, almost sounds animistic that you essentially get emotional resonance in that way from objects. But the way you describe it sounds more like an imprint of someone else's emotional state.
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I wondered about it a lot because it doesn't seem like it disperses or interacts with things, but I indeed get strong impressions about people just from wearing their clothing and so on
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Unfastened Belts 7/16/2021 6:23 PM
Hey yaya, 1. How would you define "enlightenment"? 2. Is the definition I gave above (the continuous absence of a psychological narrative of resistance/uncomfortableness) something that you would say applies to your experience?
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Unfastened Belts
Hey yaya, 1. How would you define "enlightenment"? 2. Is the definition I gave above (the continuous absence of a psychological narrative of resistance/uncomfortableness) something that you would say applies to your experience?
I would somewhat agree. I'd more describe it as confronting resistance until you're completely free, emphasizing the fact that it is a struggle and not easy. Then, you feel one with all things because you are liberated from emotional need
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Unfastened Belts 7/16/2021 6:25 PM
Well yeah, this "completely free after the struggle" is the continuous absence I'm talking about
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I didn't say it was easy :p Roger says "you can't do surrender, you can only be surrendered by life" (edited)
6:28 PM
By the way Roger makes a distinction that emotions don't really figure into the question of peace of mind. Even after the psychological narrative has dropped away, there will be emotional pleasure/pain in the moment, such as joy, excitement, sadness, anger (edited)
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I agree completely. For example, while I'm free of need for sexual desire I still would describe myself as wanting and enjoying it, its just that I'm in complete control
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Unfastened Belts 7/16/2021 6:29 PM
I would agree with all of that except for the last word :p
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Unfastened Belts 7/16/2021 6:31 PM
According to Roger (sorry I say this so much I know it sounds lame), the psychological narrative of resistance is really the result of believing that humans are in control of what we say, think, feel and do, rather than understanding it all to be an impersonal happening
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exactly. The more I grew the more I saw that I was just surrendering to what already was. Then, my emotions were flowing in me and guiding me seemingly at random, but always based on something that is true
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Unfastened Belts 7/16/2021 6:33 PM
Haha nice! 🙂
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that's also why I say it originates with the unconscious of the universe- I have no control over what emotions come up, it's almost like my whole being has become the incarnation of higher power flowing in me
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