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[–] w3ird_sloth@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Incorporated corporeal flesh for the fetishes of murderers and molesters. Hyperfixation and masturbation as AI girlfriends fuck the bosses who laid us off. This could possibly be real.

Nobody knows what’s real. Your reality is subject of your illusion.

[–] fysihcyst@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

-PKD

[–] untorquer@quokk.au 30 points 1 week ago

Now this is podmemeing

[–] agentshags@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

probably the best phrase that makes moderates willing to stay. lol

[–] orc_princess@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago

My view is that we may not necessarily know or agree on reality itself or religion but we can agree on following a materialist analysis as it clearly has predictive power and people who suffer materially need a material solution

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

i'm real because i'm here.

can't vouch for everything else though sorry.

[–] emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You're not real, you're just some text on a screen.

[–] athatet@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 days ago

Text on a screen gang rise up.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Way to assume there is a perceiving subject, you're it, and its assumptions are reliable smh

[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 4 points 1 week ago

I smh, therefore I am

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

i'll have you know i'm very reliable at existential dread.

[–] Vupware@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 week ago

Maslow’s hierarchy of dweebs

[–] disorderly@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Where is "nothing is real, but good luck making use of that information"?

[–] BellyPurpledGerbil@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nothing is real. Nothing matters. There is no man in the clouds judging your goon session. There is no inherent meaning to our existence. So the only things that are real and the only things that matter are what you do.

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 8 points 1 week ago

There is no man in the clouds judging your goon session.

Well, there is, but not in a religious sense.

where does [reality is not but you are] fit? probably the DMT or be not afraid?

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 3 points 1 week ago
[–] sangeteria@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

Reality is whatever is going on in at any given point in gay bathhouses and everything around that is imaginary set dressing and lore to getting there

[–] doleo@lemmy.one 2 points 1 week ago

I miss Terence McKenna

[–] Supervisor194@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I've been through pretty much every stage shown here and now I'm firmly in the "I don't know" camp. It feels like I'll be here until I'm dead, tbh. Not that it matters (maybe).

Now that is some quality philosophy shitpost.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Also in case somebody cares, my definition is that reality is time, space, matter and energy.

Everything that is measurable; everything that is subject of laws and that a lord would possess.

Like, i believe the word "real" literally comes from the root "re-" which means something like king-like (latin "rex"), so it describes everything associated with a worldly leader, which is mostly the possession of land areas and the (measurable) things that are thereon, such as kilograms of wheat produced.

[–] AlfalFaFail@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, "property" as in something that can be discussed in court and the kings (or feudal lords) basically were the court as they were the ones enforcing the law. So it was a king-related (or rather feudal-lord related) affair.

[–] AlfalFaFail@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago
[–] folaht@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The only things that are not real that people think is real are time and space, especially space.

An illusion is when an object that is thought to have a certain shape,
turning out to have a very different shape and that usually means that
what one thinks it is seeing a solid three-dimensional object, it in reality is
just mere "smoke and mirrors".

The moment you try and touch the object with your hand, your hand goes right through it.
Now one needs to use objects to create such an illusion, and those objects are real,
it's the object that's perceived to be real that isn't.

Space is not an illusion, but it is misdefined as having the properties of an object
therefore turning something that merely conceptual as something that is real.
Yet even the most prominent scientists of today are too daft to realize this simple thing
and actually think that space is real and define it having dimensions.

And they define it as such: "You can travel through it three-dimensionally,
therefore it has three dimensions."

While it may look like space has three dimensions, it doesn't.
It doesn't the same way mathematics doesn't have
any place-value notation as a property of mathematics.
Sure, you can use the decimal system in mathematics,
but you based that on the number of fingers you have.
It's not a property of mathematics, it's just the preferred system we use.
And the same goes with space. Our body has three dimensions,
therefore we think space does but in reality space has no dimensions.

Dimensions are defined as the limits to where an object stops being.
Your length, height and width are the limits to how much you are.
You are not defined by how much an object can travel through you.

Space is not an aquarium with imaginary glass panes and infinite volume,
that auto-magically get an extra set of panes the moment one of the fish that swim in it
suddenly grows a new set of limbs that protrude into the next dimension.

Space is nothing. It is zero-dimensional as it has no height, no width and no length
and therefore is not real in the same sense that you and me are.
And thought of space having such qualities is the ultimate illusion.