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!!4iV4HF9R34g said:
fridgebuzz got it, my question.
And DeathDomokun, I think, nearly nailed it.
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That's because we're good, Australian lads.

What's this all about anyway? Anything can't exist without what isn't? It seemed FinalRest went off on tangents about hedonic calculus and epicureanism, but I'm just as confused as he is. Are you asking whether the universe judges us because it's blameless, or that it's vicious and dissolute in nature? In retrospect all the great philosophical ideas have come about through converging opposing ideas, so the universe is probably both. Like when FinalRest said ordered creation can return to chaos, but chaos can also spawn ordered creation.

Philosophy is really a big joke and changes just as often as social contexts do. Yet Kant's Categorical Imperative may apply here, in that it's simply a spin-off of the Golden Rule. It says that in a given circumstance one should act in a way that is everyone's universal maxim, meaning one should only act a certain way if they are okay with everyone acting that way. Also, Kant stressed that there is no way of knowing the consequences of one's actions, so morality should be based on rationality, and if morality is based on rationality then there must be a moral absolute. He supposively fixed moral inconsistencies, like relativism, by claiming rational conduct is moral conduct, and philosophers before asserted everyone has access to reason so nobody had an excuse. Kant said it is the decision maker's duty to do the "right thing" even if they don't succeed, because ultimately they will never know the outcome of their actions.
 
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I'm not really asking much. I'm just thinking aloud about the structure of our cosmos.

I guess I believe thought is tangible, like it's the stuff that makes up our worlds.
So, first, if the universe is made up of all the thoughts ever thunk, that's can set the course of our lives.

And then I got tangential drawing lines to these ideas' implications to the pursuit of enlightenment.
 
!!4iV4HF9R34g said:
I guess I believe thought is tangible, like it's the stuff that makes up our worlds.
So, first, if the universe is made up of all the thoughts ever thunk, that's can set the course of our lives.
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There may be an element of truth in this. I had an experience I cannot explain where I killed someone with negative thoughts, yet that someone was really me in another life. I was on drugs, but it still hit home at the time. Everyone was just another version of myself I had yet to live.

That is all.
 
I posted a thread in PD about this.. Magic? Haha.
You can find it through my started threads, or it's probably on page 2.
It's entitled "Psychedelic Infrastructure Employed in Reality Tunneling".

Psychedelic being literal, and not intrinsically relating to the drugs.
There's also a great thread regarding The Hero's Journey.
 
I guess that's like, sarcasm.
But I don't mind, cause that's not how I read it first.
The first way it felt was like almost confirmation that it's working.

Besides, you'll get what you make by putting it out there. (+
 
alasdairm said:
finding a $1 bill in an old pair of pants is a +1
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Made me LOL. :D Finding a $1 bill in an old pair of pants: the least exciting positive event possible.

Anyways, I totally get your point. Negative and positive events cover an equally wide range of intensity, so for every negative event there is an equally emotional positive event.

Maybe what MyFinalRest is saying is that the average daily negative event is more emotionally involving than the average daily positive event. Which might be true.
 
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