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“Rainbow Dash having an existential crisis due to her realizing the reality of her universal insignificance among the cosmos.”
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>didn’t become depressed or get a severe reaction
>literally exists to cause suffering
Choose one.
I mean, of course nobody matters in some context. But instead of wandering around helplessly in a meaningless world, people tend to make meaning.
A very successful way of making meaning is doing the exact opposite of that.
I mean, you’re already doomed because everyone matters to themselves, never mind to each other. You’ve got 9 billion to go.
So your approach does nothing more than make your existence even less meaningful. An absolute mistake to society.
Ultimately you could say we’re all mistakes. Whether we make ourselves happy accidents, or even introduce meaning into our lives by doing something meaningful, or unfortunate tragedies, is really our own choice.
People will be happy and have meaning and 9 billion to one you’ll never make a dent in that.
Or you could make meaning with compassion, and learn how to make yourself actually matter to someone else, or even yourself. It’s entirely your decision.
But they call it heaven and hell for a reason.
I mean, the true enemy of all is misery. I don’t see how siding with the enemy helps defeat them.
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So in your own sort of way, yes. You DO matter. We ALL matter. Matter to what is up to us. Our friends, our businesses, our families, our countries…its up for you to decide.
Yeah we did. If you’re philosophically a physicalist and atheistic, then you’d say the universe began without a purpose.
But humans have an idea of purpose. We create purpose where there was none before. That makes us pretty darn important as the sole source of “purpose” in the universe. “Things are only as important as you make them” is a two-sided coin. One side says “they’re no important than you make them, we’re nothing but specks of dust so we’ll die and disappear, anyways,” but the flip side of that same coin is “things are as important as you make them.”
Purpose stems from urgency, or desire. Those are feelings. Feelings aren’t non-existent just because they come from humans. Feelings definitely exist. Thus the things built out of feelings - purpose - exist as well. And without humans, they don’t.
Ergo, humans (or any sapient life) provide the universe with purpose.
So in response to our sad, existentially-stricken Rainbow Dash, she matters just as much as she feels she does, and as much as everyone else feels she does, and the loss of all her potential would be a tragedy. So she matters.
…plus she’s made of matter so she matters
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saying that without us the Universe is pointless, but you forgot that the Universe was pointless from the beginning and we didn’t change anything about that
Not sure what you’re saying, here. I mean, I see what you’re saying, but not sure what the point is or how that contradicts or builds on what I said :q
Existance of the Universe + everything inside is already pointless
there is no reason for the Universe to start in such a Low-Entropy stage if the end reult will be particles Infinitly far away from eachother, making the Universe exactly 0K cold and dead
On the flipside, the universe isn’t aware without us, we brought the concept of meaning into existence, so without us all that universe out there is pointless.
Comapred to the Universe our Existance is pointless, I mean altogether our Existance is pointless but you get the idea
Let us be lovers, we’ll marry our fortunes together.
…God, I love that song. It even ends in its own existential crisis.
I can understand why it may have seemed like I was implying it, but I never said belief alone is enough, just that it is one of if not the most important thing to change your life.
If from day one you say ‘oh he’s forever gonna be stronger than me’ then that’s what’s gonna happen cause you won’t take action to change that. But if you decide you’re gonna be stronger than him and keep that decision in sight to fuel your drive then it’s much more likely to happen.
I think the point we’re trying to make is that reality does not just bend to your will or “desired perception” or otherwise change the way it works simply because you want or believe it to. It changes in response to your effort, in proportion to the amount of effort you put out, in a direction in accordance with whatever action you take to enforce that change, which may or may not actually be the direction you desire.
Like the roommate example that I mentioned before: no amount of “belief” on its own would change reality to make him not exist to me anymore or stop him from forcibly rearranging my reality by proxy of forcibly repositioning my body in the act of throwing me across the room. Sheer force of will can’t change the fact that I am much shorter than him, much weaker than him, or that my total body weight was evidently within the scope of what he could lift and throw without hurting himself, but months of dedicated exercise and physical training could help make me as strong as he was, let alone stronger.
As for removing him entirely, yeah “believing” him away would never work. At all.
I’m more trying to tell you to step above what you do. Physically and mentally, what are the hardest things that you’ve done yet? One answer for what you’ve done physically, and another answer for what you’ve done mentally.
…Woah sorry I think I got lost there a minute. The tone of your discourse implies to me that you’re trying to disagree with me, but the point I’m getting from you is “If your reality sucks then stand up and turn it around.” Which is pretty much along the lines of what I was saying.
@CobaltTheMadMage
To paraphrase a certain lady of war, I’m not suggesting y’all act recklessly, I’m simply suggesting anyone with a will can do anything with a smart enough use of that will.
Exactly!
Hey, @Dig Dug
How about a nice cup of Reality.
Seriously bro, sounds like you could join me in something that I like to do. It’s called Trail Running, an activity that involves running on hiking trails. Sounds easy and safe, right? Wrong! If you were to keep up with me then you’d be running on cliff sides, wet trails, loose rocks, small creeks, and keep in mind we’re not stopping at all. We’d be running through/on all the obstacles that I listed. It’s actually a somewhat dangerous activity.
Now, I too have a disorder that affects me greatly. It’s called Ausperger’s Syndrome. I face some difficulty socializing with people physically near me, or at least used to. Even then, I still face problems beyond my control. My handwriting is terrible enough to get me an iPad from my school, even though I’m currently using actually comes from my mom who said that should get me one of my an iPad of my own if I use the school one enough. And stress is a massive pain for me, metaphorically and literally. I don’t exactly work well under strees, and stress give me a headache which makes it even harder for me to think. I’ve also got other problems that I can’t even point out because my mind loses control at those points. I too have some problems, yet I can still face the reality of situations. Hell, that is how I got through really stressful situations. I tell myself to suck-it-up, face the reality, and if it’s a bad situation I try to defy the reality.
This is Corbin J. Money, and that will be all.
I guess all that’s left is to know when said heart needs the aid of another person or piece of technology. In a technical sense “where there’s a will, there’s a way” is true, but one should be careful not to expect the power of DETERMINATION(!) to work like the power of lucid dreaming.
There are things you just can’t do, but they can often be sorted into things that nobody can do, things you can’t do yet, or just things you can’t do without the proper means at hand.
And then there’s also the can of worms that is things you shouldn’t do, but that’s a whole other issue.
No one does.
I’m an artist with a shaky as fuck hand and terrible immune system on a vow of silence while going to college for animation. Believe me I know there are things that are hard to control, but saying I can’t control my hands’ movements isn’t going to accomplish anything. You underestimate the capacities of the human heart. The same heart that cruised the seas without gills, soared the skies without wings and escaped gravity itself to reach towards the stars.
The second you lose your will is the moment you lose control, not when life presents you a lightly undesirable situation.
Sounds like you just need go play some football.
…that’s not a euphemism or anything, I mean literally go out, meet some people, and engage in a strenuous contact sport with some variables beyond your control. And believe you me they will be beyond your control, as much as you dislike it or believe otherwise. Opposing players will crush you, the ball will not land in your hand every time if at all, and getting tackled WILL hurt, and the ball will not always fly where you mean it to.
Seriously, as pretty as your theory sounds, it is only really possible to have complete control over your universe when you are the only one in it (and that’s not exactly a good thing when you are).
Reality is also a thing. Maybe you’ve confused me for someone else, but I haven’t seen a rope or gun all week.
Don’t fuss over the what-ifs, should’ves and if-onlys. Like I said, possibility is meaningless, because what matters is what is actually happening and what you yourself choose to do about it.
@CobaltTheMadMage
…I mean I’d at least ask why they would want to do that in the first place, and try to understand them…
Last time I checked, I try to rope and you get tied up. Rope won’t pass through your body. Your physical worth to the multiverse might be nothing, but that doesn’t mean other physical object won’t do anything to you. I almost wanted to ask “If I shot you with the gun, would the bullet not hit you?”, because you still have mass. Your mass and still be affected by the rope. The rolled up newspaper will still hit your body. There is still such a thing known as physics.
…and now I am picturing you encouraging someone to follow their dreams of genocide.
If that is the drive you need to be the best you can be, then I welcome you to do so.
I don’t care about right or wrong. My one goal is to bring light to as many people’s hearts as I can.