#perception-and-reality

[thepersonalwords]

Say, there is a book written by Tolstoy sitting right there on the table. To our unique human consciousness, the reality of the papers in the book, is infinitely different from the valuable literature that they possess. For the kind of consciousness possessed by the bug which eats those papers, literature is non-existent, yet for the Human Consciousness, literature has a greater value of truth than the papers themselves.

Abhijit Naskar, What is Mind?

[arielluva]

everlasting

[vaguely-concerned]

I think it says almost everything you need to know about varric that his reaction to the blackwall reveal is like... 'oh thank GOD you're a child murderer. for a hot second there I thought you were something much much worse' '.......like what' 'boring to me personally'

[pratchettquotes]

One of the recurring philosophical questions is:

"Does a falling tree in the forest make a sound when there is no one to hear?"

Which says something about the nature of philosophers, because there is always someone in a forest. It may only be a badger, wondering what that cracking noise was, or a squirrel a bit puzzled by all the scenery going upwards, but someone. At the very least, if it was deep enough in the forest, millions of small gods would have heard it.

Things just happen, one after another. They don't care who knows. But history...ah, history is different. History has to be observed. Otherwise it's not history. It's just...well, things happening one after another.

Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

[rocketbirdie]

it looks and sounds just like you, but,

[stripedstarsblueflags]

if you expect a driver to be world champion material (ruthless, ravenously ambitious, selfish, psychologically manipulative, killer instinct, able to be cold hearted to hypothermic extremes, competitive to the point of aggression, values winning more than anything and anyone in their lives) and also be a completely likeable person that is entirely a you problem

[weirdoldmanhoho]

I don't know. If you found out that your evil doppleganger that you unwillingly became immortal twins with was planning to murder your ENTIRE COUNTRY like he already did to your old country and you're literally the only person alive who can stop him, except doing so means you need to leave your family for a bit I'm not sure we can call that guy a "deadbeat dad." I don't think we can even say he "abandoned his family."

I think people forget that Hohenheim was actively going around the entire country putting his blood into the ground to counteract Father's transmutation circle and that is literally the only reason that Father turning Amestris into a Philosopher's Stone gets reversed later on. He wasn't just like....bachelor-ing it up for 10 years.

The goal was always to stop Father, save Amestris, hopefully become mortal while doing so (as he was ridding himself gradually of souls), and return back to his family to grow old with them. But unforeseen to anyone, tragedy struck, because that's how life works.

[bitchthefuck1]

I love how the conversation between Harmony and Helena shows the tension that Helena becoming severed creates in the power dynamics, because even as a temporary PR stunt under a different name to clearly delineate them, Helly's existence is still a huge crack in the Eagan mythology. Cobell, Milchick, and Graner could be drinking the kool-aid by the bucketful, but watching a descendant of Kier allow themselves to be severed and then being placed in a position of authority over them would still have a massive subconscious impact on the way they view Helena, and by extension their perception of the Eagan's as a whole. It's a direct threat to their illusion of divinity, and you can really feel how that colors their interactions.

[thirdity]

Art is dead, not only because its critical transcendence is gone, but because reality itself, entirely impregnated by an aesthetic which is inseparable from its own structure, has been confused with its own image. Reality no longer has the time to take on the appearance of reality. It no longer even surpasses fiction: it captures every dream even before it takes on the appearance of a dream.

Jean Baudrillard, Simulations

[philosophybits]

A thing's real nature has a tendency to conceal itself.

Heraclitus, Fragments, B123

[thepersonalwords]

Say, there is a book written by Tolstoy sitting right there on the table. To our unique human consciousness, the reality of the papers in the book, is infinitely different from the valuable literature that they possess. For the kind of consciousness possessed by the bug which eats those papers, literature is non-existent, yet for the Human Consciousness, literature has a greater value of truth than the papers themselves.

Abhijit Naskar, What is Mind?

[universetalkz]

The ego has a negativity bias-

“It tends to focus on what is missing rather than celebrating what you already have. When we do not understand this nature of the ego mind we are always hungry for more, never truly enjoying what we have already accomplished. Learn to appreciate where you are and through that you will snap out of the ego’s grip. Seeking more without focusing on what you already have will always leave you feeling like you have nothing. Always be grateful.”

~Pawan Nair | The Higher Self

[nobeerreviews]

...what is important is not so much what people see in the gallery or the museum, but what people see after looking at these things, how they confront reality again. Really great art regenerates the perception of reality; the reality becomes richer, better or not, just different.

-- Gabriel Orozco

(Krakow, Poland)

[slabmaxxing]

DISCIPLE [band au by @plutomarigold]

[vintage-tigre]

[lazyyogi]

The veil was not placed over your eyes; it was woven by your seeing.

Awareness isn’t hidden— it’s what you’re using to search.

Nothing is concealed, only misread.