Aponia & Ataraxia
Experienced
- Jun 24, 2018
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For the purposes of this video, I encourage you to view this from the perspective of a hypothetical extraterrestrial entity. Do not take this video personally, as your ego will attempt to make you suffer for it. View this from the realm of pure abstraction, and it will set you free. You must focus on yourself and be mindful of the present moment for this to work. Something will either click for you, or it won't.
Most important line to listen for: "You won't be part of the human race. it will be as if the big bang never occurred in this universe, from your perspective."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-energy_universe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egocentric_presentism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_presentism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perspectival_realism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifrustrationism
"Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper." --Albert Einstein
*we can theoretically decide the when/where/how of our own escapes
"Dealin' with the lower planes brings a lot of stress..." --Greydon Square, 'Cosmic Harvest'
"...Nothing, some physicist implied, might be the ultimate symmetry, everywhere, everywhen the same... Mostly we knew what nothing was not. It was not anything. But it was the possibility of everything. And perhaps such beauty, nothing, was unstable. And the result was every once in an eternity it twitched." --Dennis Overbye
"Whatever is real in our universe is real in a moment of time, which is one of a succession of moments. The past was real but is no longer real. We can, however, interpret and analyze the past, because we find evidence of past processes in the present. The future does not yet exist and is therefore open. We can reasonably infer some predictions, but we cannot predict the future completely. Indeed, the future can produce phenomena that are genuinely novel, in the sense that no knowledge of the past could have anticipated them. Nothing transcends time, not even the laws of nature. Laws are not timeless. Like everything else, they are features of the present, and they can evolve over time." --Lee Smolin
"Of all obstacles to a thoroughly penetrating account of existence, none looms up more dismayingly than "time." Explain time? Not without explaining existence. Explain existence? Not without explaining time. To uncover the deep and hidden connection between time and existence, to close on itself our quartet of questions, is a task for the future." --John Archibald Wheeler
*Wheeler was joking when he said that last sentence.
"The fact is that we only fully arrive at ourselves in a freely chosen death. It, and only it, is "la minute de la verite" (the moment of truth). --Jean Amery, 'On Suicide: A Discourse on Voluntary Death'
"A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind." --Susanna Kaysen
states of consciousness are shadows of time itself
Most important line to listen for: "You won't be part of the human race. it will be as if the big bang never occurred in this universe, from your perspective."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-energy_universe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egocentric_presentism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_presentism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perspectival_realism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifrustrationism
"Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper." --Albert Einstein
*we can theoretically decide the when/where/how of our own escapes
"Dealin' with the lower planes brings a lot of stress..." --Greydon Square, 'Cosmic Harvest'
"...Nothing, some physicist implied, might be the ultimate symmetry, everywhere, everywhen the same... Mostly we knew what nothing was not. It was not anything. But it was the possibility of everything. And perhaps such beauty, nothing, was unstable. And the result was every once in an eternity it twitched." --Dennis Overbye
"Whatever is real in our universe is real in a moment of time, which is one of a succession of moments. The past was real but is no longer real. We can, however, interpret and analyze the past, because we find evidence of past processes in the present. The future does not yet exist and is therefore open. We can reasonably infer some predictions, but we cannot predict the future completely. Indeed, the future can produce phenomena that are genuinely novel, in the sense that no knowledge of the past could have anticipated them. Nothing transcends time, not even the laws of nature. Laws are not timeless. Like everything else, they are features of the present, and they can evolve over time." --Lee Smolin
"Of all obstacles to a thoroughly penetrating account of existence, none looms up more dismayingly than "time." Explain time? Not without explaining existence. Explain existence? Not without explaining time. To uncover the deep and hidden connection between time and existence, to close on itself our quartet of questions, is a task for the future." --John Archibald Wheeler
*Wheeler was joking when he said that last sentence.
"The fact is that we only fully arrive at ourselves in a freely chosen death. It, and only it, is "la minute de la verite" (the moment of truth). --Jean Amery, 'On Suicide: A Discourse on Voluntary Death'
"A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind." --Susanna Kaysen
states of consciousness are shadows of time itself
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