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This is fascinating, thank you for sharing. I googled it and there seems to be an entire community of people doing or attempting to do that ? Surely a symptom
by 4gotunameagain 2y ago
This is fascinating, thank you for sharing.
I googled it and there seems to be an entire community of people doing or attempting to do that ?
Surely a symptom of the industrio/tech induced epidemic of loneliness.
A very interesting question on the ethical side as well.
My knee-jerk reaction is that the promotion and propagation of such methods should not be allowed, as it can risk nudging vulnerable individuals the wrong way.
But if this is not allowed, why would meditation be ?
What makes it different ? Only the outcomes ?
I cannot help but to be overwhelmed by the human condition sometimes.
- joseda-hg 2y agoI recall finding them as a teen myself on the internet, there were books and stuff on the subject but it was treated like something that might be risky, in the best of cases you would end un with a benign tulpa worse case you end up similar to OP or worse It was certainly treated as "underground" knowledge, less something like you would share and more something you would find on a chan
- bdavisx 2y ago>My knee-jerk reaction is that the promotion and propagation of such methods should not be allowed Both you and the rest of the world would be better off not worrying about/trying to stop other people from doing things that don't harm anyone else.
- 4gotunameagain 2y agoI do believe that there is collective societal harm in some actions that on a first glance appear only self inflicting. We are all parts of an interconnected whole. Your freedom ends where the freedom of the next person's begins.
- buildsjets 2y agoAre you really saying that you want to make thinking the wrong things a crime?
- 4gotunameagain 2y agoI specifically said propagation. Which has of course clear precedent, the easy example to point out being Strafgesetzbuch section 86a.