From: oldernow@dev.null
On 2025-04-02, Ed Cryer wrote:
>> Even if there were a "reality" apart
>> modeling/representation of it, surely the worst
>> possible approach to knowing/experiencing it directly
>> would be via an idea (which right off the bat is more
>> modeling/representation) of an individual/self that wants
>> (i.e. lacks) it to be a certain way.
>>
>> Surely the hopelessness of that scenario is
>> self(haha)-evident?
>>
>> And surely an entire species consumed with/by doing
>> precisely that is quite possibly the saddest -
>> whilst simultaneously most hilarious - thought such
>> a self/individual could mentally entertain (aka
>> model/represent)?
>
> Hello world-denier and self-hater.
Hello judge of others.
> My self is excellent. I love my individuality; I'm proud
> of it, all that I've achieved, all that I've mastered in
> life. It stays with me as memories and support. It's all
> that makes life worth living; the challenge, the growth
> that comes with success, the winning at chess, squash,
> cycling, running and knowledge quizzes.
Good for "you".
(double quotes indicating "the idea of")
> I'm glad I'm me and not someone else. I see so many drips;
> so many people stuck in ruts, living lives of clichéd
> platitudinous dullness, envying the successful, bringing
> down the achievers.
It definitely sucks to have to put up with so many losers
reconfirming "hell is other people" in spades.
> I run toward myself rather than away from it. I can
> build on it because I trust the foundations. I made it;
> the choices that I thought through and made, the effort
> I put into it all, the joy of improving and mastering.
I don't doubt that you're amazing in your own eyes -
which just so happens to be a significant side-effect of
the scenario initially painted in this thread.
--
NPC's dutifully ignored.
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)
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