• DomeGuy@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Whether or not you’re “really” a real person, or a brain in a jar, or a butterfly dreaming you’re Zhuangzi, you and me and everyone else are still “people” we should respect.

    Wrestling with the unfalsifiable nature of reality is something all thought traditions have dealt with, and I’d argue that you’re not really an adult in 2025 if you haven’t contemplated that all you know could be a hallucination.

    The screwier question always becomes “if this is a dream , what if you’re not the dreamer?”

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      3 days ago

      "We on an ultralight beam, we on an ultralight beam

      This is a God dream, this is a God dream

      This is everything" 🎶

      I see your based Chinese man reference and raise you a Ye one! 😁

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          He’s just mentally broken (and was always a bit frail, but his experience with Hollywood finally destroyed him) and hates the Ashkenazi lawyers that messed with his money, from what I understand, so he said some stupid and obviously morally wrong things because he is and always has been childish as well (“a 38 8-year-old with rich n* problems”). He’s not out there actually promoting/having a hand the death of a whole innocent community like Bibi, lol.

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            Dude literally made a song called “Heil Hitler,” not to mention his “HH88” shirt he sold on his site.

            The guy’s a fucking Nazi, stop apologizing for him.

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              Oh, I wasn’t up to date with all of that, my bad. He’s been off his rocker for a second, but this is a more financially motivated move which makes it all planned and really yucky and immoral. I miss the old Kanye. 😒

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      But… then I’d be compelled to concern myself with those who are getting bombed into the dirt for being born on the wrong side of a DMZ…

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    Even worse what if this is all cold reality and when we die that’s it and one day the universe stops and none of this mattered at all except for the capitalism?

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      Why is that worse? And why would capitalism still have mattered if nothing else did?

      Besides those things, this is basically what I believe and where I find comfort when the world is infuriatingly nonsensical. You mean all the times I fuck up and looked like a fool literally could not matter less? And all the shitheads out there will eventually be eaten and erased by worms along with everyone else? That’s a whole lot of weight off my shoulders’ what that sounds like to me.

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        The capitalism bit was a joke.

        I’m glad you find comfort in the erasure time passing offers.

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      Dream because of the necessary “lower plane of existence”, less ‘solid’ than God, but I’d specify it’s a lucid dream (also due to my beliefs, as it is impossible to have any ‘hard evidence’ about this subject, hehe).

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    been thinking a lot about this lately. especially Plato’s allegory of the cave. pretty sure when you go around that corner it’s just another cave but with it’s own little fire in it. there’s no actual way out. they’re all just more caves. that’s all you get.