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Why on earth would doing ANYTHNG in an imaginary, unimportant, realm affect your mental internal world? You don't want to admit it, but you're basically confir

by ta8645 3y ago

Why on earth would doing ANYTHNG in an imaginary, unimportant, realm affect your mental internal world? You don't want to admit it, but you're basically confirming that you do understand that you can not stand apart from the physical realm. You are playing mental gymnastics to pretend you're in touch with some higher knowledge and understanding... but you're still constrained to the physical world, just like the rest of us.

bowsamic 3y ago
Well, a story can also affect my internal world, if that’s your criteria of reality, yet I doubt you consider that as real as the physical world. Basically, according to your argument, there is already no distinction between physical and mental, which is the very reason I simply say it’s all mental. The reason I don’t call it all physical is because physical usually means “out there” and not “in here”. No, everything, absolutely everything, is “in here”. There is no “out there”. I perceive reality in this way. If you touch some outside directly that is amazing magic and a contradiction to any Logic I know. It seems kind of like you can’t really accept that this is how I understand reality. I have a tip for you: others’ views will be much clearer to you if you don’t assume they’re lying about believing them. Maybe they really do see differently to you
- ta8645 3y ago
  There's a recent video you can search, a woman walking out the door of her apartment building. A young man sneaks up behind her and puts a bullet in her head. She died. She didn't have to have any thought about the bullet. She didn't have to think ANYTHING about the physical world. Nothing about her state of mind affected the outcome. Physical reality is independent of what we think of it. > Maybe they really do see differently to you I appreciate you think you see it differently. But your actions show you don't believe it as deeply as you think you do. You are a prisoner of the physical realm, not an inhabitant of a higher, more spiritual, plane. What good is it saying something is imaginary, if it affects everything you do, and you can't escape it. That sounds like something very real indeed.
  - bowsamic 3y ago
    I can’t really infer anything about the internal world of the woman. Also according to Buddhism the state of her mind would affect into which realm she was reborn after death, and arguably getting shot itself was a manifestation of her mental state. Yogachara philosophy of Buddhism says that all appearances of external reality is created by our internal world
    - ta8645 3y ago
      > I can’t really infer anything The point of the video, is that she had zero awareness of the bullet. It all happened in 2 seconds without attracting her attention. I'm sure if you're honest, you can think of 1000 other examples as well. Physical reality proceeds without your thoughts, it will continue after you and I die, it doesn't need our feelings or thoughts to exists and persist. > Yogachara philosophy of Buddhism says... Tony the Tiger says, "They're great!!"
      - bowsamic 3y ago
        > Physical reality proceeds without your thoughts, it will continue after you and I die, it doesn't need our feelings or thoughts to exists and persist. Sorry, I simply don’t believe in this.
        ta8645 3y ago
        My belief is it is unfounded and ultimately based in narcissism. "I am so important that I create the external reality, I really am the center of the universe, it wouldn't exist without my mind" It's an appeal to self-importance. It can't account for something like the fossil record, that existed before any human was on the planet; other than to say, "I dreamed that up in my own special imaginary fiction!!" Perhaps the primal nature of the world isn't physical matter, but to pretend that we create reality with our mind, is not only silly, it's dangerous and flies in the face of how everyone, even those who claim to believe otherwise, actually act in the world.

by ta8645 3y ago

bowsamic 3y ago

Well, a story can also affect my internal world, if that’s your criteria of reality, yet I doubt you consider that as real as the physical world. Basically, according to your argument, there is already no distinction between physical and mental, which is the very reason I simply say it’s all mental. The reason I don’t call it all physical is because physical usually means “out there” and not “in here”. No, everything, absolutely everything, is “in here”. There is no “out there”. I perceive reality in this way. If you touch some outside directly that is amazing magic and a contradiction to any Logic I know. It seems kind of like you can’t really accept that this is how I understand reality. I have a tip for you: others’ views will be much clearer to you if you don’t assume they’re lying about believing them. Maybe they really do see differently to you

ta8645 3y ago
There's a recent video you can search, a woman walking out the door of her apartment building. A young man sneaks up behind her and puts a bullet in her head. She died. She didn't have to have any thought about the bullet. She didn't have to think ANYTHING about the physical world. Nothing about her state of mind affected the outcome. Physical reality is independent of what we think of it. > Maybe they really do see differently to you I appreciate you think you see it differently. But your actions show you don't believe it as deeply as you think you do. You are a prisoner of the physical realm, not an inhabitant of a higher, more spiritual, plane. What good is it saying something is imaginary, if it affects everything you do, and you can't escape it. That sounds like something very real indeed.
- bowsamic 3y ago
  I can’t really infer anything about the internal world of the woman. Also according to Buddhism the state of her mind would affect into which realm she was reborn after death, and arguably getting shot itself was a manifestation of her mental state. Yogachara philosophy of Buddhism says that all appearances of external reality is created by our internal world
  - ta8645 3y ago
    > I can’t really infer anything The point of the video, is that she had zero awareness of the bullet. It all happened in 2 seconds without attracting her attention. I'm sure if you're honest, you can think of 1000 other examples as well. Physical reality proceeds without your thoughts, it will continue after you and I die, it doesn't need our feelings or thoughts to exists and persist. > Yogachara philosophy of Buddhism says... Tony the Tiger says, "They're great!!"
    - bowsamic 3y ago
      > Physical reality proceeds without your thoughts, it will continue after you and I die, it doesn't need our feelings or thoughts to exists and persist. Sorry, I simply don’t believe in this.
      - ta8645 3y ago
        My belief is it is unfounded and ultimately based in narcissism. "I am so important that I create the external reality, I really am the center of the universe, it wouldn't exist without my mind" It's an appeal to self-importance. It can't account for something like the fossil record, that existed before any human was on the planet; other than to say, "I dreamed that up in my own special imaginary fiction!!" Perhaps the primal nature of the world isn't physical matter, but to pretend that we create reality with our mind, is not only silly, it's dangerous and flies in the face of how everyone, even those who claim to believe otherwise, actually act in the world.