To me, life is enjoyable when it flows naturally. But when my random thinking mind is in dominance, it tends to think the same thoughts that create a “reality.” It’s like living like in the movie “Ground Hog Day.” Watching or living reruns is boring. So when I stop believing my own bs, l am mostly stress free. Other people may like living in abstract worlds.
@mprado4177
Ай бұрын
Everybody lives in an "abstract world", particularly when that abstract world is invisible to their perception. By virtue of speaking, everything in people's lives, including those who live in primitive isolated cultures, is the result of their abstractions, which are unavoidably created and passed on by their language. You are writing a response to this video, yes? That's proof that you are thinking. You are using a computer to do it, correct? That's proof that you live in an abstract world. Do you sleep in a bed? Use running water on demand? Use cars or even bike or walk on roads and paths made by human abstractions? Wear clothes designed and made by humans? A human cannot breathe for long without living in an abstract world. How many feral humans are there, who live naked in the jungle and never utter or understand a word?
@mprado4177
Ай бұрын
Humans are animals that create abstract worlds. And if the worlds we create have consequences, what makes them less real than the untamed wild world of nature untouched by human minds?
@Nothining
Ай бұрын
Yes I agree. They are real! Even if they are abstract and are not concrete entities, our collective believe in them creates physical consequences. I am curious if we do really believe in them or we just agree with them. Like children pretending they think SC is real so they'll get the actual presents! But in cases of "governments" I would say if the abstraction works relatively well for everybody, believe it, or agree with it. But if the abstraction is used to domineer and oppress, I would say it is time for the meat suits to expose the illusion for what it is. But those kinds of revolutionaries and/or freedom fighters and/or resistance movements have to kind of agree/believe in these abstract concepts as well to have some physical influence
@chris5264
Ай бұрын
As always, great question. Thanks. I was writing something out, but I think this will make a good and important video soon to come. I took a break, and I have several to do, but I will make sure this is on the list.
@mprado4177
Ай бұрын
@@chris5264 I'm looking forward to that video. Thanks.
@Nothining
Ай бұрын
Hey one comment got deleted I think. Just wanted to say I agrew with you. I do think abstract concepts don't really have concrete existence but they do have concrete, physical consequences if we believe or choose to agree with them. In some cases it works relatively beneficial for everyone. But if the collective belief and/or agreement is used to control or domineer it is time for the oppressed to prick through the illusion. But maybe in a way the opressed still need that illusion of "power" to take it away from the oppressors.
@mprado4177
Ай бұрын
@@Nothining Oppression is the way of nature, not of humans. Just watch any brutal nature documentary, where the survival of the fittest usually means the survival of the most merciless force. Power is not an illusion. Power is a force outside individual actions that can greatly influence and determine the life of an individual, whether that individual agrees with it, or acknowledges it or not.
Пікірлер: 28