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3 days agoIt’s not ADHD. It’s literally everyone. There is no such thing as a true self. That’s just what Disney movies and belief in souls brainwashed us to think.
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But that’s a bit arbitrary
Exactly. It’s no more “true self” than any other. Even by themselves, most people play a role for themselves: they replay events of the day or tell themselves other stories and then believe whatever gives them an emotional fix. But it’s not real, and that is true for every other person as well. You are not your story about yourself, you are not someone’s story about you and nobody is your story about them.
Consciousness. Though that too is just a word, which I also don’t believe in. But that’s the best of all the imperfect words that at least point away from matter.
You’re always impacted by something that directs what you end up choosing. Or even thinking. Think of a fruit. Did you choose to think of that fruit? Or did something that falls under the category of fruit just pop into your head? Literally every single thought is like that. Verbal or nonverbal. Sure you can mull over a thing forever if you like, but that too is something you don’t know if you’re going to do before you’re doing it. Or not doing it. I can ask you to go brush your teeth right now. You can deliberate “it’s good for me, no reason not to do it, oh but I already did some time ago, I don’t wanna just do something because this dude online said so, maybe I’ll choose to do it just to prove a point…” endlessly but you have no idea what you end up choosing a single moment sooner than you do. You just tell yourself after the fact that you “chose” to do it or not do it, which also just depends on how attached you are the idea of free will.
Free Will
Materialism (as in, matter being the foundation of reality)
Words
Cat welfare because I like cats, and animal welfare as I consider it my meat tax.
This. Exactly this. But because Christian Capitalism needs us to be individuals, being “nothing” must be characterized as a negative.
The only fucking reason people experience the emptiness under all the masks as a negative is because they’ve been conditioned to think there’s supposed to be something there.
Yet the emptiness is the experience of literally everyone who bothers to look. And it is a relief. You’re not anyone, you’re not “supposed” to be one way or another. There’s just an exchange with everything in existence and you can just respond as called in any given situation.