[Arm-netbook] Totally derailed topic

[mike.valk at gmail.com]

2017-05-09 11:48 GMT+02:00 mike.valk at gmail.com <mike.valk at gmail.com>:

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> 2017-05-09 10:45 GMT+02:00 Lyberta <lyberta at lyberta.net>:
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>> doark at mail.com:
>> > I think you're caught in the same trap, unable to realize your own
>> > potential for lack of a moral standard (it also suffers as a result of
>> > an Atheistic philosophy), and unable to accept a pointless existence.
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>> When I was 19, I was in a very bad situation. Everything I've ever
>> believed in was false. So I've spent the next 6 months looking for
>> truth. Thankfully, I have dropped out of college by this time so I had
>> time to investigate.
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>> And in one moment it dawned upon me. There is no truth. Everything is
>> relative. People invent their own truth and start believing in it. So if
>> I want to stay unshackled I must not believe in anything.
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> There are many truths but non come close to reality.
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>> The next thing was supposed to be suicide but I couldn't do it. I don't
>> know the future and I don't know what will happen when I die. In fact,
>> I'm trapped inside my own consciousness and by definition can't escape
>> it and see the truth. Remember Plato's allegory of the cave?
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>> Another thing that bugs me is, since I don't believe in anything, I also
>> don't believe in science. I can't predict what's gonna happen in the
>> next moment. Every once in a while I get in this state of mind where I
>> understand that I understand nothing.
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> Believe that you are here. Your time here is brief. Enjoy it while you can.
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>> > In any and all cases I think you might enjoy a book that is eyeopening,
>> > insightful and uplifting, with respect to the world around you, as
>> > opposed to your more dreary, despairing, world view.
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>> I was forced to read books at school and this gave a huge hatred for
>> them. I remember I've tried to read a fiction book at psychiatric
>> hospital and after the 1st paragraph I was so enraged that I quickly put
>> it away. Though this mostly applies to fiction.
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> You can't control anything but a small part of yourself.
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> You do however have a choice. Not making a choice is a choice itself.
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> The're is no thing in this world that you must but one thing: Undergo the
> results of your choice.
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> Getting enraged by books is a choice.
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> Don't get overwhelmed. When that happens you'll panic and reason will
> vacate your mind.
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> You are allowed to believe in things that are not real.
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> Science is not a fixed thing. It's an ever changing truth towards reality.
> http://chem.tufts.edu/answersinscience/relativityofwrong.htm
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Found a more complete one:
http://hermiene.net/essays-trans/relativity_of_wrong.html


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> Religions mostly advocate absolute truth. There is no absolute truth.
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> Sience is knowing that your viewing the universe through a keyhole and you
> are probably be wrong in your assessment of what you see.
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> Accept that you'll need to base your choices on what you know now. You
> cannot make choices based on things you might come to know.
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> Relax and live. It is worth your time. Don't anger yourself on ignorance
> of others. But don't think you are above another. We're all different. Be
> proud of it.
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> This life might just be a test for the next. And the more/fuller you live
> the bigger your obstacles you must overcome. At least that's how I see it.
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