• qualia@lemmy.world
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    26 days ago

    Ever since gravity waves were proven to exist in 2015 the future & past were also proven to exist. They’re a direct consequence of the relativity of the present for different observers.

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      26 days ago

      This misses the point; if we cannot alter the past or see the future, we must recognize that the now is what we can influence.

    • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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      26 days ago

      Fuck I miss having some proper choring. I used to mow five acres of swamp with a push mower then paint a room or install flooring after working a full day.

      Gods I was strong then.

  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
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    26 days ago

    What you are suffering is realizing this illustration was made by AI and the faux-meaningful quote comes from god knows where.

    • Godric@lemmy.world
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      26 days ago

      What you are suffering is online smuggery and faux intellectual superiority imagining this is a new philosophical concept.

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        26 days ago

        imagining this is a new philosophical concept.

        Where did I “imagine it’s a new concept”? Neither you nor the other commentor can apparently read basic English. The fact I was criticizing this quote as unsourced doesn’t imply the overall idea is new.

        It’s obviously not novel; I called it “faux-meaningful” because it’s shit somebody stoned in their basement has thought up a billion times and taken as profound. “Like, wow, bro, the future and the past don’t really exist; they’re just imagined and remembered. Fucking crazy, bro.”

        Really have to be a Zen monk with two left hands and Charlie Brown smoke scribbles coming out of your head to think up a crude, generic version of a basic cognitive behavioral therapy intervention.

        • forbiddencherry@lemmy.today
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          Yes, clearly. It was an attempt at humor; guess it didn’t land. The art doesn’t really look like AI to me, but I was responding as if it were, thus incorrect numbers of appendages. Anyhow, carry on.

      • ORbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        26 days ago

        Anything to avoid reality. Toxic optimism is wild.

        Being happy shouldn’t be forced, nor should being wholesome.

      • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
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        26 days ago

        I said that the quote comes from god-knows-where because whoever created the zero-effort trash in the OP didn’t bother to attribute it. I didn’t “claim otherwise” because I said, in plain English, that the illustration was generated and made no judgment about the quote except that it was faux meaningful (it still obviously is) and had no attribution. The fact you’re trying to lecture me about this when you apparently can’t even be fucked to read what I said is hilarious.

        I would’ve appreciated you sourcing the quote if you didn’t decide to also act like a sniveling little cunt about a mistake I didn’t even make.

  • ApeNo1@lemmy.world
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    26 days ago

    This has a real “How Can Mirrors Be Real If Our Eyes Aren’t Real" dumbass vibe to it.

    • LurkingLuddite@piefed.social
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      26 days ago

      Yea, but it’s relating actual advice: Stop letting things absent of the moment ruin the moment.

      That’s great for people ruminating on things. Sure, it’ll be WAY less meaningful in 5-15 years when the food/water wars start becoming a reality, but it’s still solid advice for anyone worrying about how Brady responded to their latest attempt at flirtation…

  • DarkCloud@lemmy.world
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    Either that, or you’re having empathy for the other people you effected… And fear you’ll see them again.

    Not everything is about ontology Buddhism. Buddhism gets lots of stuff wrong. Desire is suffering? Nahhh, it’s fun! Worth living for.

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      This is not only a Buddhist belief, but one that has been held by mystics and enlightened people for at least 3000 years. It is held to be not metaphor, but literally true and experienceable by anyone who cares to put in the appropriate meditation work.

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    26 days ago

    No officer, I did not rob 35 banks. Those things happened in the past, which is not real. You never swim in the same river twice.

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    26 days ago

    This is exactly why you should trust your car dealer to get you a better car for the same monthly payment. Some people might tell you that you’ll be making those payments for longer, but that’s the future, and the future doesn’t exist.

    • Sergio@piefed.social
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      26 days ago

      There’s Buddhism as practiced over centuries in a variety of ways in many countries. And then there’s meme/bumper-sticker Buddhism. Your comment is true of the latter.

  • Of course! I’m not suffering from an accident because the past doesn’t exist! It’s just my memory of the accident that causes daily issues, pain, and medical costs associated with having parts of my body removed (which got removed from a thing that, as previously mentioned, doesn’t exist)

    • Mirror Giraffe@piefed.social
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      26 days ago

      While it might not make a difference to you, the accident doesn’t exist. All of the consequences of the accident, from when it did exist and was present, are however very real in the present.