My Latest Solipsistic Insight

[Mellowmarsh]

3 hours ago, Joseph Maynor said:

What is solipsism pointing to?  

It’s pointing to this that cannot point to itself.

 

Words are pointers - a word by any other name is still a word. The pointing can only extend outwards from the pointer, if you want to know what pointing is pointing to, keep follow the pointing outward to where this pointing ends.  Wherever there’s a pointer there’s pointing, but where does the pointer start and the pointing end? They don’t because they are 1 conjoined twin. 

Why does pointing point only outwards? … the same reason split milk cannot put itself back in it’s container.

Nothing contains infinity. 

[Carl-Richard]

3 hours ago, Nemra said:

You just proved that it can be talked about by that sentence,

Our buddies over here will point you to the basic spirituality videos you perhaps have watched 10 years ago.

[Natasha Tori Maru]

@Carl-Richard ItS tO HeLp YOu fOR yOUr eDuCaTIoN 

Noob

Need more concepts 

Edited 2 hours ago by Natasha Tori Maru

[Carl-Richard]

6 hours ago, Willy Phallicus said:

Man is a social animal an as such will always be subjected to social conditioning.  The quality of that conditioning will determine the quality of human life within the society.  The quality of the conditioning will be determined by the level of refinement of the social values as well as the degree of enlightenment.

In case you haven't noticed human civilization didn't learn anything from history and any day now its going to be fascism on techroids on account of the culture already being fucked - solipsism need not enter into it.  Man is largely fucked in his head and his heart and the world around him is a perfect reflection of this.  To be hanging it on a word while ignoring the substandard material working with it is to not understand what the real problem is.

"We've seen a big increase in thefts around this neighborhood, is there perhaps time to do something about it?". — "But what about the increase in insurance fraud?" We'll tackle that too. I have a hierarchy for dealing with fuckedness; I've spoken about cases where I don't use the word "God" for example.

 

6 hours ago, Willy Phallicus said:

Yeah you're given it way more credit than it deserves.  Using solipsism to describe God isn't going to save the world or bury it.

Its just a way to describe the experience of being the only being in existence which manifests itself as the monkey suit ride light show with billions of other monkeys in it.  No one is using solipsism to get laid (not on this plane anyway).

I would in fact claim many people on the forum use solipsism to have the ultimate form of metaphysical self-copulation.

[Carl-Richard]

As for posting a video people should watch, this was once posted by @Mellowmarsh but for some reason the page it was on no longer exists. It deals with the subject of philosophies and convenient fictions in relationship to the absolute. I disregarded it as obvious when it was first posted but when I look back, like the podcasters, I can see that I wasn't always in the same boat and that it was due to a development (particularly my education in university, both due to the actual courses and the timing of when I took them, which fortunately helped me touch on those topics perhaps more directly than most). I remember I once refrained from talking about solipsism exactly because I knew that most people probably wouldn't have had that same development but at some point I just stopped caring much about that.

 

It also goes into the common pre-trans conflation that @AtmanIsBrahman likes to make about me: that because I like to be rigorous philosophically, I must not know what I'm talking about or I'm "stuck in rationality", ironically in response to a post where I'm calling out the limitations of rationality.

[Nemra]

1 hour ago, Carl-Richard said:

Our buddies over here will point you to the basic spirituality videos you perhaps have watched 10 years ago.

Don't be so concerned about what people think.

I could easily say that God is BS just because of the beliefs people have about it.

People want to see what they want to see. People love to fight with their demons.

You still have the time to engage with the subject matter and respond to my post properly.

Edited 1 hour ago by Nemra

[Willy Phallicus]

1 hour ago, Carl-Richard said:

I've spoken about cases where I don't use the word "God" for example.

So have I.  Its a personal preference as I have clearly outlined.  Your personal preference is shaped by what you personally think the words are doing or not doing.  What you claim the word solipsism or even God to be doing or not doing does not align with reality and you will always lose a debate with reality.  

The reality is the word solipsism isn't actually spiritual cancer and ruinous decay.  Neither is the word God.  I can use an airplane to enhance life or bomb the fuck out of it.  Its all how the tool is being used.

1 hour ago, Carl-Richard said:

I would in fact claim many people on the forum use solipsism to have the ultimate form of metaphysical self-copulation.

And I would 100% agree that may be the case for some people if not most of them.  Anecdotal evidence only but 95% of all self proclaimed spiritual folk have their heads up their own asses.  That doesn't mean there's something wrong with the word solipsism it just means the mansters are failing on account of internal processing errors which makes it really difficult to navigate the field successfully.

There is no equity in the world of man because man is little more than an ape with primitive appetites and drives - man is a backwards vulgar hick with an insatiable appetite for conspicuous consumption and a deeply regressive status fetish.  That aint languages fault although to your point it can be used that way.  I just know where to assign the blame, if any.