If we really are making our “own reality”, then clearly the vast majority of us love war, random violence, theft, fraud, poverty, disease, starvation, torture, rape, addiction, shitty jobs, disagreement, anger, worry, envy, petty nastiness, and death. And because it’s me making this reality, I only have myself to blame. Everyone else is blameless. It isn’t the oligarchs or the Davos crowd or whoever runs The Empire who is to blame. And there's no way it could have been a malicious creator god. It turns out, instead, that I’m the sole cosmic asshole who’s made this bad movie.
My my. I don’t know why you’re so hostile, if it’s not something you want to believe then don’t believe it. But I can tell by how you just attacked my idea that in fact you do like war and violence, tho this one was just verbal. But it’s the same impulse. Anybody who says something you don’t like deserves your wrath. You’re like a boy Hillary Clinton. But as long as you traffic in blame instead of cause you’ll have your one finger pointing out at everyone else and 3 fingers pointing back at you. You KNOW that you think poorly of yourself or you wouldn’t be so afraid of my idea that you look at yourself for answers. And please, be sure to the obvious finger joke in response. I await you wit.
I would say, very few of us can make our own reality for more than a few stolen hours a day. Some are born into whatever reality they choose. On my best days I can pretend I am in control of my reality, finding Dark Matter. I wrote a story Dark Matter Zombies where I considered I am Dark Matter ha. From your comments here I would say you have a better grasp of your reality then most of us : )
I love your ideas. And thanks for the compliment, but me too, I can only really do it when I’m in a certain space. I’ve seen people born into awful circumstances who made their reality better by believing they could. Most of them are from Viet Nam in the ‘60’s who practice a deep Buddhism—I wish I were as accomplished as they are. But one element they gave me in my search is that creating my own reality isn’t about gaining control of reality, it’s actually more about letting go of the illusion of control. That’s the probably the hardest part for me. Like that scene in some block buster movie where the guy has to step out into the abyss to make the stepping stone appear beneath his feet! Gawd!
We make our own reality? Then I'm not doing a very good job.
If we really are making our “own reality”, then clearly the vast majority of us love war, random violence, theft, fraud, poverty, disease, starvation, torture, rape, addiction, shitty jobs, disagreement, anger, worry, envy, petty nastiness, and death. And because it’s me making this reality, I only have myself to blame. Everyone else is blameless. It isn’t the oligarchs or the Davos crowd or whoever runs The Empire who is to blame. And there's no way it could have been a malicious creator god. It turns out, instead, that I’m the sole cosmic asshole who’s made this bad movie.
Or, wait, maybe it is you.
My my. I don’t know why you’re so hostile, if it’s not something you want to believe then don’t believe it. But I can tell by how you just attacked my idea that in fact you do like war and violence, tho this one was just verbal. But it’s the same impulse. Anybody who says something you don’t like deserves your wrath. You’re like a boy Hillary Clinton. But as long as you traffic in blame instead of cause you’ll have your one finger pointing out at everyone else and 3 fingers pointing back at you. You KNOW that you think poorly of yourself or you wouldn’t be so afraid of my idea that you look at yourself for answers. And please, be sure to the obvious finger joke in response. I await you wit.
what's gender got to do with it?
I would say, very few of us can make our own reality for more than a few stolen hours a day. Some are born into whatever reality they choose. On my best days I can pretend I am in control of my reality, finding Dark Matter. I wrote a story Dark Matter Zombies where I considered I am Dark Matter ha. From your comments here I would say you have a better grasp of your reality then most of us : )
I love your ideas. And thanks for the compliment, but me too, I can only really do it when I’m in a certain space. I’ve seen people born into awful circumstances who made their reality better by believing they could. Most of them are from Viet Nam in the ‘60’s who practice a deep Buddhism—I wish I were as accomplished as they are. But one element they gave me in my search is that creating my own reality isn’t about gaining control of reality, it’s actually more about letting go of the illusion of control. That’s the probably the hardest part for me. Like that scene in some block buster movie where the guy has to step out into the abyss to make the stepping stone appear beneath his feet! Gawd!
Disregard that pap.
Me either sometimes. Most of us aren’t, it seems. But to me it was like learning to cook. The more I worked at it, the better my meals got.
This was meant for Ian, but landed way down here. Sigh.