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This board is dedicated to philosophy and the meaning of being, specifically absurdism, though any kind of philosophical discussion is allowed.

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Hey /abs/, check out this six pack.
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>alcohol

Ew.
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🗿For our meeting, Grey sat demurely in a lounge of the Standard Hotel. She was outfitted conservatively, in a plaid magenta A-line dress. She looked a bit sleepy. We started our conversation by talking about books, and I asked where she first encountered Sartre. Grey grew up in Sacramento but says it wasn’t until she discovered San Francisco and its bookstores that she was exposed to literature and philosophy. “God, I sound so pretentious, but it was at City Lights,” she says. “I didn’t have enough money to buy a book, and I would just sit there and read. But, actually, the first time I read about existentialism was on the Internet.”🗿
Sasha Grey, 2011
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>>1653
Cheers, I'll drink to that.
I have  a 5even pack
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>>1653
She's a book girl.

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What's the point of philosophy when we have science?
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Abstract motivation.
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You xomplain about philosophy like it's all that bad. They're nothing compared to language experts.
These are real definitions listed by real dictionaries. This is what they're demanding your respect for!
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I use philosophy as self-defense.
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Bah to Empiricism! No different from Because! Another excuse for Certainty, just like Ought. Scientists are still ever the fools, just as like the Philosophers too. In Ignorance, accidental irradiation may taste better than drinking wolfsbane I'd wager.
Two sides of a coin, Science and Philosophy are. The game-piece of the game of Investigation outside the Mind. Good enough only what they are good at and nothing more. But funny enough, noboy ever talks about the Side of the coin. Like two ends of string endlessly flayed, Science and Philosophy seem still to be the same to me. But we are the string and the side, I think. What works, works.
philosophy of science, chechmate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_science

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The sandbox game even a sandbox itself interrelates with the absurdist notion of meaning. It can be seen as a microcosm of the world, the freedom it [can] afford us, and how people react to it.

Let's talk about:
-><- Directions people have drawn from neutral sandboxes
-><- Extension of games to subvert their assumed meaning, or create new goals
-><- Self-imposed challenge
-><- The extension of "mere entertainment" into larger applications

Supplementary viewing: "Line Rider: The Gamification of an Art Medium"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=HJP1lXzm7-c

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What is your philosophy of life?
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>>1569
It's valid to kill nihlists simply for being nihlists.
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>>1570

That's a rather nihilistic thing to say, isn't it?
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>>1571
It isn't, it just sounds that way on the surface.
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Don't trust what is written.

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At what point, specifically, did the objective of science become a means to control nature rather than understand it?
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>>1647 (OP) 
>the objective of science
Never.
>an objective of science
Ancient times. The entire concept of civilization is a bold rejection of nature.
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>>1648
>The entire concept of civilization is a bold rejection of nature.
I've been SAYING this but nobody listens!
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>>1647 (OP) 
>Julius Evola
That dude actually did magick?
>Traditionalist against fascism
How?... wait, he want to turn back in time to roman paganism or something like that?
I remember mussolini was afraid of that dude.

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Can the theory of solipsism be reconciled with the theory that reality is an ultra-simulation?

I have always imagined that Real Reality (RR) is outside the simulation, something like in The Matrix when they are in those capsules, but on a local level. A technologically supra-advanced society that has these capsules in their homes, and when they get into the capsule, they enter the game (birth), something similar to GTA but taken to the extreme, where you think that is reality. Once you die, whether by accident or natural causes (of your avatar in the game), you wake up again in the capsule. For example, in RR hours have passed, but in the simulation you have experienced 80 years (or however long you last in it). Like virtual reality, but on such an immense scale that you enter the game itself (although it would only be your mind) and believe that the simulation is real, but in RR you are inside the capsule. And that is also why the deceased cannot return, because apart from being a simulation, upon re-entering the capsule, you would restart (be born again as a baby). After all, everything is code.

What do you think of my theory?
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Cars are real. Cliffs are real. Cops are real.

Life ain't a damn video game, that's for sure.
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>>1642 (OP) 
>The Matrix
Matrix theories are just Gnostic ideas or Essence primordial outworld ideas (so, schizo but religious) but with more step into modern phenomena of quantum mysticism or psychobabble, computer and code and pop culture and sci-fi like Scientology lore.
So, to me its bullshit.
>Also
Sometimes maybe i believe there's something out of this place but i dont give a shit about it and its inexactly and non-explainable.
Bsck in time i got a schizo moment and ended believing in a lot of things similar to gnosticism and the matrix theories, why? i dont know, maybe the paranoid mindstate or the brain fucked.
Philiph K dick ended in the same way (he created the matrix) but he was more fully schizo and magick maybe.
Just read VALIS.
>>1642 (OP) 
>For example, in RR hours have passed, but in the simulation you have experienced 80 years
I've had a few dream experiences like that, where the passage of time in the dream state far exceeded the time for which I was actually sleeping. It was quite jarring. Hope those capsules come with a warning label and a toll free number to call in case of addiction like they have for compulsive gamblers in need of help.
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I feel reality is weirder than what most simulation theories aptly describe. The idea of there being NPCs or not and things being not really all that real and the afterlife being your real life or something aren't compatible with a few understandings those who have lived can tell you are true:
Life has its own will.
Your own will manifested through the personal, conscious exercise of it can make this will bend to your actions. Sometimes.
Your conscious will is nonetheless in synchrony with the Will. Life is a series of images of moments that have already passed.
Time is weird. Living is weird. Thinking you're inside a computer doesn't even come close to explaining all its oddities. Like meeting a woman and knowing you'll sleep with her. Like saying goodbye to another and nonetheless knowing there's more to come, in some way. Like your imagination showing you what you're meant for, from the moment of your birth, and guiding the way. Like dreams you've already had but forgot either in the future or the past resurfacing at a very exact moment to shock you, to tell you something. Like taking some action unconsciously and knowing it was necessary in a way or another. Like reading the way and the will and understanding them in their senselessness. Like chaos unfolding in order. Can simulations even be chaotic? Can the chaos of sex, of bonding, even be simulated in its entirety, the complete mess of insides turning into an absolute mess, glans coming together, fluids blending, s
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Is dying real?
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No, dying isn't real. In fact, the Bavarian Illuminati have killed a lot of people to try and cover this knowledge up.
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Fretting over the inevitability of death is like worrying about the inevitability of going to sleep at night.
I die every night and resurrect again each day

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Is maladaptive daydreaming an undiagnosed autism trait or is there some deeper shit going on, spiritually talking?

What's your take?
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>>1631 (OP) 
>Is (Maybe) maladaptive daydreaming an undiagnosed autism trait 
dont know, from what know it a syntom of imagination, deppresion, and other things not so bad.
>or is (maybe) there some deeper shit going on, spiritually talking
dont know, back in time i executed a lbrp and my inner monologue and daydreams stopped a little.
Other times i did the GPR in the bathroom and the angryness go away
Other times did a custom lbrp and i ended with a calm quiet and a sensation and cleanliness that started to clean the house and rooms (you're supposed to get a sacred place sensation not this but cool anyway)
One day i just started to chant while meditating and get same effect. if you do metta is (maybe) interesting to do.
Maybe it just the vagus nerve working or some form of placebo, exercise to focus  relaxation and etc, maybe it just grounding techniques
who knows...
>What's your take?
don't know, I not a medic or something.
There are too many variables to know to me.
>Take 1
Check your brain or go to a (scientific) mage called medic
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>>1631 (OP) 
>is there some deeper shit going on, spiritually talking?
Well if you wanna take that approach... but i dont believe so much in these thing
>Astrology
There're some rising/ascendent - Sun - Moon and Houses and planets interaction in some birthcharts that supposed make some people more prone to imagination, creativity and day dreaming, same with dissosiations and addictive behaviour or drug usage or scapism
>What?
Moon in Piscis?, some planets in mercury? I dont remember all the sign, rising and planets and houses etc exactly.
You can check your birthchart with astroseek and your born hour and aproximated location you live.
But this is reductionist and generalization of your personal life, even the personality test are "reality" bacause personality is a mutable things depending some social context.
Good luck pope, may you be healthy and happy.
>>1631 (OP) 
Spiritually eat ivermectin to get the archons out of your bladder
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>>1634
>ivermectin
You need to use a deep organ massage and antibiotics for that.
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>>1635
tfw no bladder squeeze

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Anyone like John Maus? He's a christian anarchist artist, talks about his work exploring the "absurd conclusions" of certain social idioms. Might speak to you guys.
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A differently-worded version of this thread is on Crystal Cafe right now.  What's up with that?
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>>1627
Nice noticing.
Maybe it has something to do with ticket sales?
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>>1627

Marzichan too.
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eh, my view is 'at least they put effort in, and at least it's something different and not politics'
If it's some attempt at marketing, they're idiots.

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