When you think about something in any great detail you are basically running a simulation in your head.
Ergo,
Could we infer that our thoughts are simulations?
Or, conversely,
That computer simulations are the (…planned and directed) thoughts of the CPU?
And what of those who think that this universe is a simulation?
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Happiness is an illusion
Unhappiness is an illusion.
When free of illusion,
You are left with nothing at all.
And you could think of this nothing as ‘peace’
If you had to think of it.
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If your ego is invested
In not being invested
Your ego is still invested.
In this way, ego turns ‘being more spiritual than others’ into yet another way to assert its devilish agenda.
In this way, the very idea of enlightenment could be considered a trap for the mind.
Try to think of travel as ‘discovery’
(…or perhaps rediscovery)
Not ‘escape’.
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Turning 30 is like a horror movie.
All tension and worry in the build-up
And then anticlimax after the big reveal.
The monster is not as scary as you think it is.
One can only wonder what 40 will be like.
And if I will still be around then.
It is your birthright to experience sporadic moments of joy, blissfulness and transcendence,
And it is your curse to forget how often they happen,
(…and perhaps how great they were. )
Put another way – you would be more happy, more often – if only you could remember how often you had been happy before.
This is perhaps a chicken and egg problem.
Because scientists, on a philosophical level, do not deal in matters of complete certainty.
Unless that is to say that your atheism is a hypothesis that you would like (…or not like) to be disproved.
On a philosophical level, this makes you an agnostic – whether you identify as atheist or not.
In its most hardcore form – atheism could be described as faith (or belief) that there is no God – perhaps not too dissimilar from the religion it is ideologically opposed to.
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