seeking_brilliance

This one's really out there.... But that's OK because so am I! Anyone here heard of tulpamancy? This article explains it great... https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/exmqzz/tulpamancy-internet-subculture-892 In a way we are kind of like tulpas. To think that an imaginary being can create their own imaginary beings.... I predict in x number of years we will be having civil rights movement for our imaginary sentient beings...

1 day bump... If there's no interest I'll let it die...

This works for sure. Works much better when not in depression mindset. Does work for anxiety.

Hi, sorry I didn't write this. I will update the post to make that clearer. But here's my answers: 1. Not really sure about this one 2. Awareness and consciousness is a concept because these are just labels by thought to try and understand THIS.

@Serotoninluv haha I guess I'll take my chances... It already has unknown at the bottom but I'll do what you said... Surely someone who has had such a realization wouldn't care about being cited right lol

How about a tulpa

@Nahm @Serotoninluv @SoonHei Sorry guys.... this was a beautiful message, but I after I posted it I was asked not to share it because the person that I got it from can't remember the source..... please remove. Hope ya'll still got something out of it though

The word God can be seen in the turtle shell. The point is that how can I know if it happened completely by random chaos, or if a divine intelligence is having a good laugh? And are the two mutually exclusive?

Haha this is a can of worms.... (At first I thought you wrote 'any name on it' and I wanted to say something witty like 'it's his screen name' ?)

Count from one to one hundred while visualizing the numbers going backwards. Start over if you lose count

haha our planet is one of the specks of dirt on the turtle's ass

Where's my cute animal eating popcorn gif when I need it?

sorry was just having a laugh. So what is your answer to the mind bender?

oh ok, well I stick my hand out of the bubble and it ends up popping in from the other side and scratches my back. very useful thank you!

@1liamo78 There would be no bubble. You can imagine a bubble if you'd like, but even if you stick your hand outside of it, you haven't reached the end of anything. Just the end of an imaginary bubble. I'm not 100% sure of everyone's use of the word "nothing", but I see it as no-thing. Endless form. There is no inside or outside, there's not even an object. And yet we also say that "everything" is contained within it. But if we say that there's no-thing, then there can't be an "every-thing" so the everything is imaginary. Does that help?

@Mulky @Myegolikestacos haha I work with dogs and I envy them too. Interesting though because they can have some severe psychological disorders sometimes that ruins their natural happy go lucky state. It appears they have evolved enough to start overthinking.

@Preetom maybe it's not for you. If it does become religion it could still be preached hundred of years from now and by then we have evolved a little bit more to transcend the (false) need for religion and find true effortless spirituality. The religion becomes a necessary evil, just as Christianity has.

This happens to me about every day. I'll be thinking something or reading something and immediately the word I'm thinking or reading will be said alloud on TV or by someone in the room. So trippy. It's been happening for years

@Truth Addict Thank you ❤️ that's my main goal, although eventually it must be dropped: is to live unconditionally. I want to be an unconditionalist. ? Thank you so much

I know that the following is probably full of word salad and spiritual bypassing, but I think it's fruitful to share a slice of the journey, in case anyone can be benefited and learn better by my mistakes.... I recently received treatment of bone infection in one of my fingers. Seven weeks of intravenous antibiotics, while still working part time. There is no guarantee that the treatment worked, and we literally have to sit and wait to see if it gets infected again. There is a bump there now on the back of my finger, which may or may not go away. Sometimes I think about that I hope it's not part of the story for it to need to be amputated. I tell myself that I will accept it nonetheless, whatever happens. I can tell you what's part of the story, and that's the hope for a particular outcome of the story. In this example, the hope that seeking_brilliance doesn't have to go through that experience. Out of love and respect for that particular character. Even if he's a figment of imagination, there's an attachment to this character. I have an imaginary friend, so to speak. I have a few of them... And I think about, well, who is this I, that is attached to seeking_brilliance, or its husband, or its friends and family? Absolutely, there is no-thing, so there can be no 'I' to have friends. There can be no I, when there are no others to compare to. However, in our limited language, the closest thing to saying ALL is 'me' (or I). (other than saying no-thing) I can say, well, seeking _brilliance IS 'me', so whether it is apart of the story to hope for particular outcomes to the story, or if there were truly some-one to wish for things, it is all the same: Seeking_brilliance wanting a different outcome.......the story of seeking_brilliance wanting a different outcome.........the story of that being a story..........the story of this observance of there being this story of a seeking _brilliance who wishes for a different outcome of the story. It's all one and the same. There doesn't need to be a thing or a someone to hope and wish on seeking_brilliance's behalf. It's all blended together. It just happens. Down to the smallest particle, and up to the largest body. It's a Symphony. One everlasting movement. Absolutely Perfect.

Thank you ?

Thanks for the advice. I definitely agree. Unfortunately I've been nursing my pot addiction a bit heavy lately, and that's mainly when all the overthinking and word salad vomits out of my mouth (or technically my fingers ??) but it feels good to share when it arises. Thankfully I'm not this neurotic all day every day. I have been definitely taking it easy and nurturing myself. That's great advice, thanks. I know my next path is meditation. We'll see what happens.... ?. I've come to a strong awareness of how much I'm avoiding reality. Constantly distracting myself and then complaining that I'm too distracted for meditation. Go figure....

could be either, but would be very hard to verify. Especially with a North Korean lol

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