ForEverAfter
Ex-Bluelighter
Sorry but there are no entities. You certainly have a vivid imagination though.
Also I'd be careful trusting entities my friend. They have a distinct advantage over you, namely that you can't see them and what their real intentions are. You're a fish swimming in an ocean.. there's sharks out there. We are only the top of the food chain in this physical dimension on earth.
these are all basic questions addressed in philosophy 101... and basically the only thing you can know for sure is that i think therefore i am....
That is the single most over-quoted philosophical statement of all time, to the point that I roll my eyes whenever I hear it.
It has no bearing on whether or not I am / you are / we are the same consciousness.
While these concepts are touched on - briefly - in Philosophy 101, they aren't explored in sufficient depth.
The questions have yet to be answered.
Define "am" and "exist"
When you can you are ready for Phil
201 ☺
Define "am" and "exist"
When you can you are ready for Phil 201
yea that shit isnt sooo easy
Ha....Grumpy Smurf says:
"I HATE tertiary Philosophy classes."
*Groan*
lol my professor said something very similar the first day of class and i was like wtf really?? but yea that shit isnt sooo easy
Ha....
Smurf philosophy-
Everything is Smurfy
N.k.- If somehow u can manage to get your brain around it will dissapear when you try to explain it.
this is my fav erowid report which addresses some of the big questions that trippers may start to ask, who may have become disillusioned and disassociated with reality.
http://www.erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=88620
trozzle said:Fuck off mate, how can I be a figment of YOUR imagination when you're all already a figment of MINE?
YEAH BITCH WHAT NOW
And somewhere deep in here lies the truth, fellow selves.
And somewhere deep in here lies the truth, fellow selves.
Hmm, some comments i read here kinda remind me of a story i read not to long ago. Basically, a guy dies and goes to the afterlife and meets god. The afterlife is completely empty and he inquires about this. God explains when you die you stop in there for a while and then you reincarnate. The guy ask who he's going to be reborn as and gid tells him he's going to be reborn as a female peasant in ancient china. The guy is from modern times and is confused as to how he'll reincarnate in a time before he was born. God tells him time is just an illusion and that he can reincarnate at any point in "time". The guy points out that this means he could have meet an incarnation of himself and god confirms that he has many times. I forget how the conversation goes from there but it ends up that everybody on earth is the same person reincarnating over and over again. The same soul in 7 billion bodies plus everyone that had died before and everybody that is yet to be born. Everybody that you've ever been rude or cruel too, that was you in a different life. Everybody that you've been nice and generous too, also you. Jesus? Buddha? Ghengis Khan? Hitler? The people Khan and Hitler killed? You. One soul living billions of lives moving to the point where it becomes a being like god. Think about that. :D
To quote a wise man, "you just broke my mind".A friend who forwarded me this story some time ago said she got it off 4chan, of all places.
But I think there's truth to it, or that it's one way of telling the truth.
Though I'd add to it. Suppose you do / have reincarnate(d) as every human who ever lived and will ever live. In this thought experiment, the next logical step is: Why stop with humans? What about all the insects? The birds? The lizards? But only those. Not the echidnas and the snakes and the monkeys too.
No, wait...
... THOSE TOO. And then every other living thing as well. Down to lifeforms we can't perceive and forms of consciousness we don't even recognise. The collective will of planets and stars. Planes of reality in directions we humans can't imagine. States eternally hellish and transcendentally heavenly. All of it. Suppose the entire universe is in fact a process. A process analogous to what we call birth.
The birth of what? Of you.
What that means exactly, you'll have to keep going to find out. It seems there's no other way. See you all on the other side.
A friend who forwarded me this story some time ago said she got it off 4chan, of all places.
But I think there's truth to it, or that it's one way of telling the truth.
Though I'd add to it. Suppose you do / have reincarnate(d) as every human who ever lived and will ever live. In this thought experiment, the next logical step is: Why stop with humans? What about all the insects? The birds? The lizards? But only those. Not the echidnas and the snakes and the monkeys too.
No, wait...
... THOSE TOO. And then every other living thing as well. Down to lifeforms we can't perceive and forms of consciousness we don't even recognise. The collective will of planets and stars. Planes of reality in directions we humans can't imagine. States eternally hellish and transcendentally heavenly. All of it. Suppose the entire universe is in fact a process. A process analogous to what we call birth.
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