It's so strikingly obvious that everything is just images passing by

[OldManCorcoran]

Very blatant indeed. Just a series of images passing by. Doesn't matter if you're dreaming or awake, it's just images passing by.

[Thought Art]

Is it?

[OldManCorcoran]

Yes, extremely.

You know if you fell asleep right now and dreamed a perfect continuation of this moment, then woke up also as a perfect continuation from that, you wouldn't even know you'd been asleep at all. There's literally no difference at all between a "real" image and a dream image. Just a bunch of them going by.

[Moksha]

Like a filmstrip running across the unchanging light of the absolute.

[Nilsi]

When a warm summer breeze is gently tingling your skin, is it still just images passing by?

When you're out with your friends and you're fooling around, teasing each other and talking about the good old times, is it still just images passing by?

When you look your partner in the eyes, as you gently kiss their soft lips, is it still just images passing by?

Going through live as a detached observer, without ever truly living and experiencing yourself as part of something bigger would be very sad... certainly a trap you can fall into, as you're pursuing spirituality...

Edited April 8, 2023 by Nilsi

[OldManCorcoran]

43 minutes ago, Nilsi said:

When a warm summer breeze is gently tingling your skin, is it still just images passing by?

When you're out with your friends and you're fooling around, teasing each other and talking about the good old times, is it still just images passing by?

When you look your partner in the eyes, as you gently kiss their soft lips, is it still just images passing by?

Going through live as a detached observer, without ever truly living and experiencing yourself as part of something bigger would be very sad... certainly a trap you can fall into, as you're pursuing spirituality...

I don't care about that stuff though. Spirituality is cuck, IMO.

[Thought Art]

@OldManCorcoran cuck?

[hoodrow trillson]

8 minutes ago, OldManCorcoran said:

I don't care about that stuff though. Spirituality is cuck, IMO.

Is your tiny penis just images passing by?

[Nilsi]

57 minutes ago, OldManCorcoran said:

I don't care about that stuff though. Spirituality is cuck, IMO.

Maybe some day you will care...

[Yimpa]

Imagination imagines images. 

[BlueOak]

I am wondering if this certainty is a creation of our continued separation in watching life on TV screens.

If TV wasn't invented, if film didn't exist, or when/if these things fall out of favor. Better yet say you are blind.

If you were outside a lot, socialising a lot, smelling different smells, having many different tastes, needing to rely on other people/other aspects of your consciousness, and feeling a lot, what would you call life then?
 

[Moksha]

3 hours ago, BlueOak said:

If you were outside a lot, socialising a lot, smelling different smells, having many different tastes, needing to rely on other people/other aspects of your consciousness, and feeling a lot, what would you call life then?

Isn't life phenomenal?

[OldManCorcoran]

3 hours ago, BlueOak said:

If you were outside a lot, socialising a lot, smelling different smells, having many different tastes, needing to rely on other people/other aspects of your consciousness, and feeling a lot, what would you call life then?
 

I'm a recluse so I'd call that an unfortunate situation haha.

[Nilsi]

4 hours ago, Squeekytoy said:

And some day, if all goes well, you will no longer care.

Why would you not want to care? 

[Yimpa]

25 minutes ago, OldManCorcoran said:

I'm a recluse so I'd call that an unfortunate situation haha.

Same here… or at least that’s what others might perceive my life to be. 

I actually have an entire social world in my imagination 

[Yimpa]

1 minute ago, Squeekytoy said:

I think we've noticed! 

[BlueOak]

2 hours ago, Moksha said:

Isn't life phenomenal?

Yes. An observable event or Phenomenon. I don't know if focusing attention away from the eyes when talking about life divides us unnecessarily or helps refine our understanding, Perhaps both. Thank you.

[Moksha]

@BlueOak ?Different life forms (maybe including Leo's alien) with eyes instinctively gravitate to each other's gaze when they meet. Maybe that's why they're called the window to the soul.

[Leo Gura]

Consciousness is not just a set of images. Be ware of any kind of reductionism. All of it is wrong.

[_Archangel_]

@OldManCorcoran your definition of everything includes the concept of time in it, because as you can't have  "images passing by" without time/change.

The problem with this definition though, is that time/change is a construct that can be deconstructed, too.

Edited April 13, 2023 by _Archangel_