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Take my mind
20/6/2009 - 19:46:19 - 8 comments - By D47
If I could give you my mind along with all its knowledge, memories and experience I would not hesitate to do so, in fact I really want to do this with you. I think that if you had my mind and your own, things would be so different and I wonder what kind of revelations you might have and what parts of my mind will be discarded as fallacy.

Would something I consider absolute fact be looked upon with doubt from the perspective of a combined mind. What kinds of conclusions would be drawn based on both sets of collective experiences seemingly occuring at once?
 
BlazerKnight (guest) (21/6/2009 - 08:49:39)
Hello, I am a random visitor who just spent an hour or two reading your blog. I find myself agreeing with most of your thoughts and opinions. As well as sharing similar interests - what anime do you watch?

I'm glad I could find a kindred mind somewhere out there, I often find that people are content to be mindless sheep who don't think twice about the worldview that their parents or peers hand to them.

As for this post: yes, I'm curious to know what others might think if they could have access to my thoughts and the memories that led up to them. Too often does language come in the way of understanding; for example, it's glaringly obvious in your Facebook debate, all parties involved had misunderstandings and thus used straw men arguments. If only we could psychically transmit our thoughts - even if others may not agree with them, they would be able to see why our beliefs are justified in our own minds. And vice versa. For all we know, that "connectio
 
D47 (21/6/2009 - 10:17:44)
Hi there, unfortunatly it seems your post was cut by my size limit.

Im glad to see i've interested someone, much of this blog is just writting down the things that I idly think of, even when I have a massive winge about something sometimes it strikes me as a very interesting formulation of thoughts that I feel that I need to record it somehow. Putting it online is like an experiment of mine and so far the results are pleasing.

As for anime I watch alot, a damned lot. Some of my favorites are Serial Experiments Lain, Evangelion, Gantz, Elfen Lied, Code Geass, Death Note, Texhnolyze and Ghost in the Shell. I find that there are themes and ideas in anime that just arn't expressed anywhere else, so many of the best stories are in anime.

If ever you come back and read this I want to ask if you happen to have a blog or similar I could read? I'd be very interested.

Also i've increased the size limit ten-fold for fear of loosing any more comments. =)
 
BlazerKnight (guest) (22/6/2009 - 03:28:34)
Oops, let's see if I can salvage the remnants of that comment from my memory. "For all we know, that "connection with God" that religious people claim to have might be a latent sixth sense present in part of the human race. But humans, as of yet, have no way of sharing those perceptions."

I have a blog located at http://blazerknight.wordpress.com/ It is updated with the irregularity of a lazy, unfocused teen, i.e. me. Please note that my older posts are embarrassing, even to myself, but I'm preserving them for posterity.

By the way I noticed that http://vangannon.com/quote/ turns up the following, http://sadpanda.us/images/28894-ZT1DVAK.png

I'm on Firefox 3.0.3 (old version, because I don't have admin permissions) on Leopard. Hopefully it's not reproducible. Otherwise, it has the unfortunate double effect of hindering potential customers by, well, not showing quotes, as well as creating doubt about your web design skills... Might want to fix that quick :P
 
D47 (22/6/2009 - 03:33:18)
Haha yes I am very lazy too, so lazy in fact that we never ended up making that quote page, I've been meaning to get around to it for ages =).

It would be so fascinating to live long enough to be there when all these questions are answered, it would also be fascinating to live long enough to witness the next global war! So its a win-win situation provided we can endure the current mundane situaion.

All this remindes me of that stargate episode where some planet had this memory copy and paste machine, stargate is awesome!
 
BlazerKnight (guest) (22/6/2009 - 04:19:24)
On one hand, living forever or being able to slow the aging process would allow us to learn much more. On the other hand I am really curious about what happens after death, and there's only one way to find that out for oneself...

Hmm, the world is so full of suffering already, why would you want to see the next world war? I would much prefer if someone decided to create the world anew, into some kind of united utopia. Where we can pursue the elusive meaning of life without the hindrances of human nature.
 
D47 (22/6/2009 - 05:17:21)
Ah! perhaps this is where our thoughts differ and where a mind meld would be truly amazing.

I am as sure that nothing lies beyond death as I am sure that if I don't eat I will eventually die. Of course I cannot know either with 100 percent certainty until I try, but perhaps you have heard of the flying teapot argument? The probability that anything lies beyond death is so retardedly low that it is rediculous to beleive in such a thing given the viable alternative.

As for the suffering of the world, that is another topic I feel strongly about. In my view there is no god and there is no purpose for humanity, holy or otherwise. As a result of this it becomes aparent that all our morals and notions of right and wrong are merely contructs put in place by our evolution that are beneficial to the human race in regard to the survival of the species. By discarding care for humanity one can act however he or she wishes outside of the rules of morality in order to reap the emotional rewards.

I also see that the human mind is merely a very complex biological machine with fixed programming just like a computer. Evolution has occured in such a chaotic and "mish mash" way that our brain is constructed very messily. Thus pain and suffering is just a programed response. There is no such thing as a soul and so one cannot do damage to it.

Humanity has secured a spot on the scale where it can do horrible things yet still live a satisfying life. Humanity is able to demonstrate that it can be emotionless and logical yet still find a reason to live through emotional fulfillment. I find this trait beautiful and loosing it would be a great loss. Humanity seems to be a great conquering machine.

Anything evil or good is simply an occurence, nothing more, there is nothing to add any meaning to it but our own programed interpretation. Thus something considered evil (such as war) is nothing more than an occurence, and one that I happen to think will be extremely interesting. The only thing that I would want to do during war more than being on the front line is to be the one conducting the war.

This post is poorly articulated but I hope I got my message through.
 
BlazerKnight (guest) (22/6/2009 - 07:46:24)
What lies after death is a gaping hole in human knowledge, which people try to fill with increasingly ridiculous theories. I don't believe any of the prevalent ideas about the afterlife but cannot dismiss the notion either since it cannot be disproved. This stance doesn't hamper me from living my life as I wish, unlike evangelicals who tell others to life virtuously for rewards in heaven. Either way death will give us an answer sooner or later.

I take a similar stance, and currently believe in nihilism, determinism and atheism. Yes, there are no objective morals, but society is against this and call us immoral for believing in amoralism. However it is inherently a rather depressing and cynical view, so I seek a higher meaning. The cliched, oft-asked question of "what is the meaning of life?" I may believe in evolution but I still wonder, how did that first microbe come into existence? Most probably not by the gods of any current religion. What then? And why are living things biologically inclined to reproduce? These questions, integral to the meaning of life, remain unexplained.

Alongside with my belief in nihilism is my belief in utilitarianism. To operate outside of social norms for personal gain is to be an outcast, and in extreme cases, a criminal, which gets you thrown into jail where your freedom is severely curbed. Instead, strive for a better world to benefit yourself. Since human suffering does not benefit me, while social progress does, I'd push for the latter. And even in situations where human suffering directly benefits me, the associated guilt often nullifies any pleasure I might glean from it. Note, this guilt has nothing to do with morality itself, but rather parental and social conditioning, which has different effects on every person.

Hm, this exchange is getting long (and interesting) Mind if I appropriate it for my blog sometime?
 
D47 (22/6/2009 - 08:40:28)
Certainly, you may do as you wish with the content here. I have an open source type statement at the bottom of the page =)

Your utilitarian stance is one I have also thought about and it is amazing to talk to someone who has thought as much about nihilism as I have.

It seems to me that any attempt in one lifetime by one person cannot amount to much and even if it did, the majority of that life would be spent labouring towards the goal. By doing what you can in the present to acheive as much satisfaction as possible straight away is ultimatly what I want to be able to do.

I like to think of it as a challenge to erode my moral reservations and gain what I can without emotional baggage. Among the things I desire is to not be an outcast and to "ascend the social ranks", so I labour to uphold my reputation and appearence as somebody that would be aproved of in society while continuing to make things as best for myself as possible.
 
 
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