Tag: solipsism
Links about the concept of Wahnstimmung. Here, too, beyond the context of schizophrenia, in the sense of a state of dissociation and free-floating anxiety. Continue reading
About the “hard problem” of consciousness. Read the full page
r/Schizoid, u/Concrete_Grapes
Schizoids are somewhat in a unique place as far as personality disorders go. We are inward facing, self-validating, self-reliant (on thinking through things, not always financially or housing), etc.
So, we frame the world, usually, as if everyone else is or should be this as well. To us, this is ’the norm’—and we literally cannot gain something good, or new, from interactions. We don’t need to interact with someone to validate an experience, or ’move on’ from some emotional attachment or slight.
However, normal people do not exist like this at all. Ever. Not even a little. Not for even a handful of minutes a year.
They are always outward facing in searching for validation. They feel they have no value, unless it’s measured by, or against someone else. Their emotions literally exist only as a function of social validation, or as an attachment to others. If they are mad, they are mad at someone. If they’re sad, they need to process it with others, and reference stability and coping mechanism off the ’other’… they cannot do this on their own.
That’s why virtually everyone that goes to therapy, goes to deal with their emotions, and the severe control emotions have over their actions.
That’s why a schizoid often gets nothing from most therapists, it’s not emotions for us, we’re stuck internally, conscious, and intellectualizing emotions away if they do happen, or forcing them to appear when we lack them. Hyper-aware of this, usually.
Other. People. Never. Do.
So they’re reaching out to process and connect—they’re unfulfilled, or some door isn’t closed, and they feel an internal emotional sense that they ’must’—some how, reference off you to complete the task.
To you, that’s nonsense.
I mean, I’m saying it in an extreme way, and one can argue it’s not always like this—and it’s not.
But go read what ’mindfulness’ is—the thing where people struggle to do it even a few minutes a day, after months of trying, on purpose, and tell me—if, to you, that sounds like horse shit, because it’s describing a state you’re in 99 percent of the time as default.
That’s what I mean.
Is it actually possible to assert anything?
Is it actually possible to assert anything with 100% certainty? Read the full page
If one thinks about the (obviously made up) religious scenarios, or any other kind of hellish stories invented by humans, it’s obvious that most real lives don’t even come close to that. Continue reading
Applying “that’s subjective tho” to that rings very, very hollow. To criticise them, you have to take the claims apart; […] Read the full page
Philip Goff – Breaking Through the Consciousness Stalemate – The Institute of Art and Ideas
But there’s an important difference here: in all other cases we postulate unobservables to explain what we can observe. In the unique case of consciousness the thing we are trying to explain is unobservable. Read the full page
r/Pessimism, u/CardinallyConsidered
Too much ignorance, and we have absolutely no respect for the potential for suffering that exists here. We are far more likely to shoot ourselves in the foot (so to speak), cause others as well as ourselves more pain than we ever thought possible, only to eventually decay and die.
Too little ignorance, and you become completely frozen by fear. You fully recognize the fragility of your body, the consciousness resting in it, and the fragility of all individual life forms.
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A certain level of solipsism is required for a decent quality of life. A certain level of ignorance and delusion are required for a decent quality of life.
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The sweet-spot of delusion. That’s where it’s at.
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Meditation has helped me in very gradually lifting the veil of safety/security. And then psychedelics rip the veil off of your face all at once and it’s just WAY too much. We are biologically programmed to be reproducing machines, and there are many mechanisms in place that keep us from completely losing our very complex human minds.
Reality is in your head. Read the full page
My personality with the pills from The Matrix
Memez are fun. Read the full page
JAI @jaivcalla – I have to fucking say this
Completely different ontological plane of existence compared to People™.
Related: University of Utah Neuroscience Initiative – The Unfixed Brain[🡕]
When you’re suffering, that’s when you’re most real. Read the full page
Massimo Recalcati – Perversion
The Clinical Lesson of Jacques Lacan: Madness, Neurosis and Perversion (third session). IRPA, Associazione Accademia Pons, Jonas Onlus, Order of Psychologists of Lombardy, Enap Continue reading
Translated from Italian by me (WTFPL).
It takes two to have a child, but you think alone.
Alessandro Bergonzoni
(At the zoo.)
– What do you see?
– Animals.
– Prisoners, held in a cage like us in a world without risk, or struggle, or danger. The only difference is that they are able to see the bars, and that takes away any hope of escape.
Choke / Soffocare
When you’re all alone in the lands of forever, Lay under the Milky Way, On and on, it’s getting too late out, I’m not in love this time this night.
Can’t help it if I space in a daze, My eyes tune out the other way, I may switch off and go in a daydream, In this head my thoughts are deep, Sometimes I can’t even speak, Would someone be and not pretend? I’m off again in my world
Avril Lavigne and Clifton Magness – My World
Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals – John Gray
r/Pessimism, u/historyismyteacher Continue reading
Carmelo Bene – Four Moments on the Whole Nothing – 3°: Eros
Poor, poor… Poor lovers! Read the full page
I am the axis in the wheel of reincarnation The endless singularity
Thorns – Vortex
God’s Debris: A Thought Experiment – Scott Adams
The subconscious is an odds-calculating machine. Read the full page
More than a source of mental pain, today depression is a way of life. Read the full page
The Lüneburg Variation – Paolo Maurensig
I’d always detested student revelry, as though death became even more menacing to me precisely in the rites meant to exorcise it. Read the full page
To love is to tire of being alone; it is therefore a cowardice, a betrayal of ourselves.
Fernando Pessoa – The Book of Disquiet
When you know quite absolutely that everything is unreal, you then cannot see why you should take the trouble to prove it.
Emil Cioran – The Trouble With Being Born
“For [Elohim] doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened…”
No sooner are they open than the drama begins. To look without understanding—that is paradise. Hell, then, would be the place where we understand, where we understand too much…
Emil Cioran – The Trouble With Being Born
If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.
Emil Cioran – The Trouble With Being Born
What you are basically […] is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.
Alan Wilson Watts, Out of Your Mind: The Nature of Consciousness (posthumous, 1998)
Let’s suppose that you were able, every night, to dream any dream you wanted to dream; and you would – naturally, as you began on this adventure of dreams – you would fulfill all your wishes. You would have every kind of pleasure, you see, and after several nights you would say, well that was pretty great!
But now, let’s have a surprise: let’s have a dream which isn’t under control. Where something is gonna happen to me that i don’t know what it’s gonna be. Then, you would get more and more adventurous, and you would make further and further out gambles as to what you would dream, and finally you would dream… where you are now.
Alan Wilson Watts, Out of Your Mind: The Nature of Consciousness (posthumous, 1998)
New age bullshit of course, but great emotional effect, especially in the following music piece:
Philosophical Investigations – Ludwig Wittgenstein
Where does our investigation get its importance from, since it seems only to destroy everything interesting, that is, all that is great and important? (As it were all the buildings, leaving behind only bits of stone and rubble.) What we are destroying is nothing but houses of cards and we are clearing up the ground of language on which they stand. Read the full page
Short Stories for a Year – The Wheelbarrow – Luigi Pirandello
When there’s someone around, I never look at her, but I feel that she’s looking at me, she’s looking at me without taking her eyes off me for a moment. I’d like to make her understand in private that it’s nothing, that she should relax, that I couldn’t allow myself to perform this brief act in front of others, that for her it’s of no importance, but for me it’s everything. I perform it every day at the right moment in utmost secrecy and with frightful joy because, trembling, I experience the delight of a divine, conscious madness that for an instant frees me and allows me to get even with everything. Read the full page
In Search of Lost Time (Remembrance of Things Past) – Marcel Proust
When a man is asleep, he has in a circle round him the chain of the hours, the sequence of the years, the order of the heavenly host. Read the full page