#Solipsism

[lforlimbo]

'Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.'

[darktragedys]

The nothingness among the misery of the crowd collapses euphorically, causing me extreme glare between my mental words stuck inside, that now I die of terror when I think about it.

Peturbadistico when remembering it in the violent horror of the euphoric attacking hatred withers in the hidden of myself.

Alburist bullshit disturbs me with my sadistic lines that burst my neutrality to humanistic predation, the screams become water.

The young people with childish movements die of sobs when I ride in the manure, kisses virginals pose my abrupt seriousness, among the minoristic age of mine that others laughed scaredly among prevagionist jokes spicy displeasures for me.

[misszura]

Patrick Jesus ? Patrick Jesus.

Almost one year after this, I come back with another blasphemy 🙃

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[philosophybits]

If you must question, then be ready beforehand to reconcile yourself with something like solipsism or modern realism. Thought is in a dilemma, and dare not take the leap to get out. We laugh at philosophy, and, as long as possible, avoid evil. But nearly all men feel the intolerable cramp of such a situation, and each at his risk ventures to swim to shore on some more or less witty theory. A few courageous ones speak the truth — but they are neither understood nor respected.

Lev Shestov, All Things Are Possible

[creature-wizard]

I just came across a manifestation/law of assumption post claiming that your parents and teachers act "the way you assume they'll act."

I'm sorry, what?

Are you saying that these people don't have free will and moral agency? Are you saying that if they hold hateful beliefs and mistreat you, that's your fault, and has nothing to do with their own personal values and choices?

Do you even see where this whole "people act the way you assume they'll act" attitude is dehumanizing? Do you see where you're effectively painting the world's population as mindless NPCs, or as puppets that merely exist as extensions of your own ego?

Do you not realize how fucked up that is?

[jareckiworld]

Jan Gemrot — Solipsism  (oil on canvas, 2017)

[tmarshconnors]

“A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.”

Arthur Schopenhauer was a German philosopher. He is best known for his 1818 work The World as Will and Representation.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Jonathan Shedler

Published: Sep 23, 2021

Increasingly common for people to say "my truth" when they mean "my experience."

You can have your own experience, belief, understanding, feelings, perspective, point of view, conviction, etc.

You don't have get to have your own "truth." Truth doesn't reside in an individual. 

One might say it's just an expression but it's insidious. Emotional maturity involves the capacity to call into question one's own perceptions & interpretation of events. Experience can be reflected on, understanding can change & evolve, and misperceptions can be corrected. 

Describing personal experience as "truth" insidiously erodes our capacity to reflect on and revise our understandings. "My truth" signals (to self and others both) that the experience is not open to question. It insists on being treated as objective fact & so negates a fundamental psychological truth: that our thoughts & feelings are not synonymous with external reality. All bona fide forms of psychotherapy understand & address this. If our perceptions & self-perceptions are treated as immutable facts, psychotherapy would be impossible. 

Emotional growth would be impossible. In contemporary psychological theory, the recognition that our thoughts and feeling are not synonymous with external reality is called "mentalization." Where people speak of "my truth," mentalization is easily derailed.

When mentalization fails, we may slip into what's called "psychic equivalence" mode... ... "a mind-state where no distinction is drawn between the contents of the mind and the external world—where what is thought in the mind is assumed to be automatically true." (wikipedia) 

For example, a person who feels hurt by something another person says or does automatically presumes that the person deliberately & maliciously *intended* to harm them. In their mind, this is an absolute & unquestioned fact. Any capacity to consider other possible explanations or interpretation of their experience is lost. The capacity to accurately perceive and function in the world is damaged—because there is no longer recognition of a distinction between thoughts and feelings and external reality. And from certainty the other person intended to harm, it is a small—very small—step to "the person is evil, a monster, they must be destroyed."

Emotional maturity holds in mind that thoughts and feelings are thoughts and feelings and not an infallible gauge of what is real or true. "Psychic equivalence" is like the egocentrism of a young child who has closed his eyes and therefore believes no one else can see him. In a child, it's cute. In an adult making decisions with real-word consequences, it's disastrous.

Perhaps speaking of "my reality" is just an expression. But we can ask whether it's an expression that invites emotionally mature or immature ways of thinking and experiencing.

There is more at stake than meets the eye. 

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What's actually true actually matters.

[zooptseyt]

I've said it in other terms already but it's probably a bad sign for culture and society that solipsism is casual mainstream pop philosophy that a bunch of youth unwittingly buy into and a common slang/joke is referring to others as NPCs, reflecting reality through media to justify an individualistic worldview that reduces people to subhuman status for the simple crime of existence.

This is an interconnected issue. As our social existences have grown to be so prominently rooted in the internet rather than reality, we have seen internet culture shift from self selected communities to highly influenced algorithmic streams focusing not on finding others but on playacting the self. We no longer curate social circles but our own reflections, which no longer stem from our own internal selves but a series of desires to conform. Kids don't go to the internet to try and portray their reality, they go to the internet to learn how they want to exist, be it via tiktok algorithms giving them hollow ideals for fashion and life, or via the youtube algorithm curating right wing self help political philosophy.

Though it is nigh impossible to remain untouched by the media that shapes our post-modern world, we can still work to find ourselves outside of it and be authentic. And as the shifting culture we have, moved by the internet (which, yes, is itself moved by humans moved by the internet in an infinite recursion of influence) towards fascist thinking ("others aren't really human, my main concern is myself, things used to be better, people who act weirdly outside of the acceptable societal parameters are morally worse") i think we have some sort of duty to reject it as best we can, to be our authentic selves without resorting to individualism, reject the push to conformity while wholly embracing the humanity of others and loving them on principle.

[distintaexpresion]

[radio-no-head]

[loaexmachina]

Room of Swords fanart, in which Gyrus is just to gay for hyperbolic doubt.

[dreamsequencermusic]

[highlyentropicmind]

Boltzman Buddha

If enlightenment is a mental state, then it should be possible (if unlikely) to reach it randomly. A teenager getting on a buss could randomly become Maitreya. Even more, it should be possible for a brain to form randomly in the vacuum already enlightened

If Pure Land Buddhism is right and each universe (or budhakshetra, if we stick to Buddhist terminology) is created by the consciousness of an enlightened being, like a bubble of order inside the chaos, then maybe the way everything started was because an enlightened consciousness was created randomly in the chaos, which created a universe and this gave the opportunity for more enlightened beings to arise, which then created the multiverse

[yonicfemcel]

[masonmczero]

It's solipsism Saturday