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The loneliness of the one

CrackAndScrabble said:
Zero is the loneliest number. Once One enters the picture than there is a dichotomy. 0 and 1. Are we trying to talk about the philosophical significance of 1?
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0 is nothing so it cant feel lonely
and 1 cant see 0 since its nothing,
but 0 can divide 1 into 2 part: + and -
if you go from 0 to 1 you get +1
and if you go from 1 to 0 you get -1
only then can 1 feel lonely (-) or not (+)
 
I think the state of consciousness that the OP was digging at is addressing the concept of one-ness that is being constantly referred to in the various new age spiritual movements around the place at the moment.

The concept seems to be that on the largest dimensional level there is an awareness of being, and that perspective of awareness would be sure that seeing as it is "all that there is" that by definition means that there is nothing else.
And if there is a conscious awareness of existing at that level does it ever lead to the reflection that would cause a feeling of loneliness ?

Which goes some ways to explaining why the game of life in 3d with all its dualism and separation is happening, it answers the question "why are we here ?", we are here because it is something to do that creates the opportunity for there to be more than just ONE, even if it is all an illusion, a drama played out by fragments of the whole, the reason for the drama is what else is there to do ?

How would you come up with a solution to the problem of eternal loneliness, what could you do about it ?

Perhaps you would use your imagination to invent a game you played with yourself, a game where you pretended that you were not the ONE but forgot that in order to have adventures, and you keep going further and further out into the imagination until you find yourself here, on planet earth right now, playing at being 6 billion humans and a whole bunch of animals and plants, why, because its fun, because it's something to do, it's a distraction from the endless nothing of complete eternity and the hell of infinite loneliness.

Just a thought.
 
CrackAndScrabble said:
Zero can be everything. You can look at zero as being nothing or everything.
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yeah i agree
but you cant feel lonely if you are nothing or everything
if you are in your mothers womb you dont feel lonely because you dont know what it is to be lonely, but once you get divided from her after birth then you can know the feeling

you are "1" and then you get divided (by creating a zero line between the 2 entity), sometimes shes there with you (+) and sometimes shes not (-)
sometimes your girlfriend is there with you (+) and sometimes shes not (-)
sometimes your friends are there with you (+) and sometimes they are not (-)

if "You can look at zero as being nothing or everything." then zero could do the same, but why would he choose one over the other ?
 
alasdairm said:
being alone and being lonely are far from the same thing.

alasdair
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exactly. I am almost never lonely when I'm alone.

Also, I get focused lonliness, as in, "I wish I could listen to this song with someone else who loved it too."
 
Interesting idea about conciousness and reality. Its entirely possible that we are pure consciousness and the physical world is just a dream. Scientists have long known that the physicl world is an illusion. Physical matter is composed of atoms but atoms themselves cannot be reduced to their smallest constituents - that is there is no smallest sub atomic particle - they just spiral off into infinity. Not only this but atoms are 99 percent empty space. Its quite realistic to expect that we are the only entity in existence and this is pure fiction - or equally plausible would be that all consciousness is one but manifestation into the physical world creates boundaries and individual identity - who knows.
 
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