So, if we live in a contained observation chamber, a virtual reality, are already dead or being mentally manipulated as we speak: Do my thoughts matter. Not just in that nihilistic sort of: "all must end and you are an insignificant speck in the mass of the universe" but more of a "Does anything I create, achieve or help in doing so matter. Do Ayn Rand's books still have to mean because they can touch someone's heart and teach them something? Does the grapes of wrath still have significants because it teaches of our history and is a gloriously detailed and tasteful read. Is all of that real, or is it fake and jaded because it's all someone else's idea or it's been done before?
I don't know if I can properly convey this question properly, but I am trying my best. I only ask if you could do the same for me.
>>19347854
Most people's thoughts, feelings, opinions and beliefs don't matter to anyone else. This is good and right. Your ability to think is crucial to your own existence because having anyone else think for you would strictly take more resources and be less meaningful. They don't have to mean more than you make them mean, and that makes them useful to you.
So you are saying that our thoughts should matter to us and that it doesn't matter if they are influential but rather if they permeate our own development and growth? Please correct me if I am wrong.
But what of people who believe we are in a matrix sort of virtual reality or those that believe there are aliens and extra-dimensional beings who can sublty control or change our current thoughts to help them in the grand scheme of things? If these thoughts are not my own then what do I do with them? Toss them aside like garbage? Do I use them and forever worry that I am merely another pawn, that what I do is not actually me but subtle electro-shocks that control my very thought process and therefore what I create is instead what another created for me?
I don't know.
Shameless bump
Something I've never seen discussed in here are dream afterimages. I just dozed off and saw a cartoon image of a family and some relatives walking down a city street sidewalk. When I opened my eyes I saw the afterimage of that image on my bedroom wall for a second or two. How is that possible? I can see if you visually see something on TV, avert your eyes and see an afterimage, but since there is no light with my eyes shut how did an afterimage of my dream show up on my bedroom wall? Pic related is similar to the afterimage I just experienced (minus the wheelchair guy and everybody was walking toward the right). There was a man, woman, two kids I think and an Aunt (maybe) in the rear with curly blonde hair who stuck out the most. Anybody else have experiences similar to this or know what can cause this? Just curious
never experienced wtf ur talking about
see a doctor
>>19347832
consult a doctor immediately
I agree see a psych, this is hallucination, how old are you OP?
okay /x/, time for a skin walker thread
please do share stories of any experiences related to skin walkers or assumed skin walker occurrences
I had managed to snap this photo a few nights ago while out with a friend, I was too shaky to manage a clear photo but this is the best I could do
it was while driving through a countryish highway, and i saw it at the edge of the tree line before it ducked back into the trees
I was convinced it was a skin walker, but knowing the area it could've been a crackhead.
I have another pic and story of anyone is interested
*if
>>19347752
I think the real paranormal mystery here is how do you have such a shitty camera?
OP post more, even though you sharpened the photo it still looks like shit
Hey /x/
all role playing and fanatism beside
im 100% convinced now that the moonlanding never happened. im sure that most of you also will be if you watch this film
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug0mE3Rkx-k
they talk about every fucking little detail of the footages
now my question is: do you think that we actually sent all these rover robots to mars and to the moon or are these hoaxes too ?
pls no bullshitting roleplaying or other childish memes let's be serious with this topic !
Biggest issue I have is with multiple times. I mean, put yourself in NASA's shoes. You pull off one of the greatest hoaxes in history. Why take the risk of being exposed by "going" six more times? Also, how could they have not gotten caught if they hoaxed it 7 freaking times. Someone would have said something.
What if the first Landing was a hoax because they were running out of time but absolutely everything else was real because they already succeeded?
>>19347903
Idk. They weren't that far from the first supposed landing. Why hoax it if the technology is that close (presumably it was, if they landed on the moon not to far after).
Instead of the trillions that have gone ito space, we can find what is in the waters.
Oh anon.
>>19347597
It's too hard. We can barely survive the pressures let alone develop material and craft that can hold up even a fraction of the journey down there.
But we've been to the moon and scattered satellites among the stars...
Really makes you think..
It keeps the existence of Mu, Atlantis, and other ancient sunken islands hidden from the cattle.
Would you eat the apple?
>>19347492
Would it count if you were tricked into eating it?
No, but I would eat the poosi
>>19347492
We already did. Adams guilt is relentless
You and I, the one reading this, we are connected through what basically is an enormous neural network that we have no capability of truly understanding. We exist as nodes within the Net. Individual neurons. I want it to be let known that there is a reason why you are reading this right now. There are forces trying to upset the Net. Huge governmental forces of a collapsing empire.
Fortunately for us, they can never truly shut down the Net. We will exist in the shadows. We will expand the darknet, create meshnets, or even resort to dead drops and sneakernets.
These forces of this System have co-opted you since birth to believe that there is a certain kind of person that you are supposed to be and that your existence is simply limited to its own rules and regulations. This is a lie.
You are more than a career, or an identity. You are an enormously complicated being that is far more powerful than just that.
We cannot change the System, but we can create our own reality. Use whatever skills you have, whether it be painting, carpentry, coding, cracking, hacking, tinkering, screwing around, duct taping, stacking rocks, kludging, or whatever it may be, to create the reality that you desire.
Do your part of The Great Work, no matter how insignificant it may seem. Having read this, you are in It. Welcome.
P.S.: We exist as a loosely connected set of individuals. We will never fall under a label or a group name: this is our strength. You know who you are.
Is a network of neural networks a neural network?
thx for this post op
>>19347209
Intriguing read/10
Is there anything more terrifying than the world that skeptics live in?
No monsters roam there. They've all been discovered or killed off thousands of years ago. The most scary thing is another human.
The next frontier to explore is decades away (space). Nothing is under Antarctic ice, no other alternate dimensions or planes. No forgotten sunken cities exist in Skeptic's World.
Nobody has any powers.
Dreams are just dreams.
No mysteries to solve, no afterlives, no demons, gods, shadow people, nothing special, abnormal, paranormal.
You're born, stress about money and then die.
It's unimaginable.
>>19347178
Or you could live in the gullible LARPing world
Where nothing ever works and everyone laughs at you
Also you can believe in alternate dimensions as a skeptic
The problem is them EVER crossing over
>>19347178
Not believing in the supernatural seems to be a much more relaxing life. When I hear a strange sound I investigate. If I can't find the source, I don't get spooked into thinking it must be ghosts. I just shrug it off and go on with my comfy, non mysterious life. I suppose it must seem boring, but I like it.
>>19348281
Boredom is the simpleton's emotion.
Is the food of the masses spiritually retarding?
It's not meant to be healthy in any way.
Yes.
>>19347156
>>19347093
>>19347119
good thing we are all in the mass.
What's the "universe", the big bang theory only talks about rapid expansion of matter (photons).
>>19347033
MY GOD. YOU IDIOT.
You had SEVENTEEN fundamental particles to pick from, and you managed to pick ONE OF THE FIVE that ARE NOT MATTER.
Photons, W/Z Bosons, Higgs-Bosons, and Gluons are not matter. They are force carrying particles. ESPECIALLY photons because as far as we know they have no mass.
You could have picked Electrons, Tauons, Muons, Any of the quarks, or any of the neutrinos, and it would have been matter.
GET EDUCATED.
>>19347628
science is bullshit. there's only five real elements
>>19347033
the universe is where us bastardswound up somehow
>>19347628
How large is the space(which was always ignored by science until 11 dimensional string theory; M-theory) of the universe?
And "what" is that space?
What does /x/ think of William Cooper and this book?
Not OP, but should I read it? Is it a good read? Need me a new one.
>>19347009
It's very much worth a read. Though it could also be a conspiracy in of itself.
>>19347367
In what way could it be a conspiracy ?
Hello.
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0sQxt95rFHj
any back story / info ?
>>19346876
Hungry.
also edgy
This is 4chan
>>19346771
no, this is patrick.
>>19346721
Brightness and color value readouts from an array of photosensors.
Is the universe deterministic?
universe yes
conscioussness no
>>19346587
Kinda.
>>19346587
Free will is one of the most fundamental distortions according to this material, allowing the creator to experience itself through our free will (we are supposedly individualized portions of the creator working our way back to unity, after 7 densities, in this octave... then there are supposedly others)
>http://www.lawofone.info/results.php?s=70#11
>[...]The seeming contradictions of determinism and free will melt when it is accepted that there is such a thing as true simultaneity. The Higher Self is the end result of all the development experienced by the mind/body/spirit complex to that point.
Source law of One / Ra material.
good luck friendos
wtf is this
>>19346573
Take letters cut them ,rotate them and you get this.
But i suck in photoshop so i can't help
>>19346551
give us a hint as to why we should care.