Pander Bear
Bluelight Crew
- Joined
- Jun 29, 2001
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HisNameIsFrank said:Don't flatter yourself,atlas. I actually graduated from college,myself. Your posts are not incomprehensible,just dull. It's as if you're just reading through a thesaurus to choose the words that will make you appear more intelligent. You keep at it,though. One day,it will actually pay off for you and seem natural instead of coming out like an oral bowel movement.
I suppose yougene is also an elitist asshole because he's dropping language like post-postmodern" and "monological second person perspective." Either that, or you reserve personal attacks and negative energy for people who don't see things your way. How very transcendently enlightened of you.
Yougene:
I don't know if I agree that egodeath experiences are really that external to the learning mind. The term creates an arbitrary division, and its completely open to interpretation (what it is, when it starts) because it relies on self-reporting, and a personal understanding of what's happening.
I'm suspicious of ego death for metaphysical reasons. It indicates something, either the mechanics of the mind, or the presence of space and dimension that is accessible only when regular sensory consciousness is stripped away. The indication is a very different thing from meaning, though. And building structures off of something just because the assertions that its primary, or universal, is building on shaky, consensus-driven ground.
People routinely discard inconvenient puzzle pieces when they create systems of meaning (for example, the south pacific near death experience of heaven as a gleaming, pristine, skyscraper filled city). I am suspicious of order, systems, and so forth, because the human mind seeks out patterns, and orders things on its own, without help from the "me" that's typing. That is a context that must be addressed.