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> The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goe
by styluss 5mo ago
> The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are.
And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly colored and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question: "Is this real, or is this just a ride?" And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say: "Hey, don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride."
Bill Hicks
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- frereubu 5mo agoThe title reminded me of this too, but it was Bill Hicks, not Richard Hicks.
- shrubby 5mo agoBill Hicks was spot on for most of the things.
- aswegs8 5mo agoSo basically, Buddhism?
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- simonh 5mo agoIt's all donosaur piss anyway. https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-10-06/recycled-water-drinking-dinosaur-pee https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-10-06/recycled-wa...
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- FrustratedMonky 5mo agoOr Camus.
- robofanatic 5mo ago> The world is like a ride in an amusement park only difference is, in real world there may be consequences that you may not be able to undo so you may have to be little careful while riding.
- kyleblarson 5mo agoI've seen some pretty janky rides at state and county fairs.
- chomp 5mo agoWell, and some people are able to buy nicer seats on the ride with plush seats and air conditioning, and some people have to sit on hard backed plastic that hurts, and some people around you don’t get a seat at all and fall off and die routinely, and the ride keeps moving.
- ryandrake 5mo agoYea. "Life is an amusement park ride" is a pretty privileged take. If life is like an amusement park ride, there are about 500-1000 people in the world actually riding it, and the remaining 8 billion or so of us are operators, maintenance staff, concession stand workers, and groundskeepers keeping it fun for those 500-1000 riders.
- throwitall1 5mo agoDo you really need to be a billionaire to feel like life is like an amusement park?
- pfannkuchen 5mo agoI believe the sentiment is that it’s a ride because it consists of synthetic stimulus, not because it is enjoyable.
- BLKNSLVR 5mo agoReturn to Monkey Island.