Day 2

"Shit! Why am I doing that?"

I’m sure some of the devrant folks would gladly go there to enjoy the beating.

Not sure if prayers will help. Maybe try unit tests instead :)

Mario invincibility star music playing in my head right now.

@donkulator hold my five meters…

"Then what am I doing here among all of those mentally ill psychos?"

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Ohhh…. 😟😳😕

Romanians don’t deserve this!

@jestdotty if you keep experiencing, then the brain is still active in some way and is obviously not dead.

Pathetic. There is so much more kinky stuff that you can do with meters than you can do with feet!

@jestdotty congrats, you have discovered a popular philosophical interpretation of that!

@antigermanist We don’t need to be funny ourselves. We have clowns like you to make us laugh.

But you are right, Germany is more sad than funny :/

@jestdotty if you are experiencing something, than you are not dead. Why is this so hard to understand. It’s the definition of being dead.

@Demolishun it’s not a secret that our understanding of what dark matter is or even if it’s actually matter, is very low.
Pop science tries to make it look like a fact but it isn’t.
It doesn’t help it that it has been called dark "matter" even if we don’t know if it is matter. It should be called dark gravity, as Neil deGrasse Tyson has suggested.

There is this new idea of a timefield (iirc) which describes dark matter as a field of varying speed of progression of time, which could explain the observations.

That sounds very cool.

@jestdotty Since you won’t let it go, ok here is how you should treat a moron:

First, how do I define a moron?
It’s not just someone who is stupid. Stupid people can be nice. No problem there.
But if you actively try to spread your claims or believes which are bullshit, you are a moron. A stupid person can accept it and just shut up about things that this person doesn’t know shit about.
A moron will become furious that others reject the bullshit that he spits out.

What is bullshit and what is not is subjective, of course, bat that’s not part of the definition of moron.

Also, I want to say that I am stupid in some topics. Everyone is. But being a moron goes further than that.

Also, it’s my personal definition. I’m not claiming it to be widely accepted but we need to have an understanding of what we are talking about for it to be fruitful.

So, how should you treat a moron?
Ignore him/her. Don't give him/her a stage. Call him/her out for telling bullshit.

@jestdotty sorry but that’s just your personal and subjective perception.

Religious people absolutely do all the things that I said and can be annoying pricks, just like atheists. I have experienced it and I know people who have experienced it.

@retoor be careful though, alcoholism is not a joke.
A wise man once told me to never drink alone. And I’m passing this wisdom to you now :)

@jestdotty I apologize because I honestly thought that it was the intended meaning.
I’m a cunt.

@retoor wow, that sucks. Sorry to hear that this happened to you. Sounds like torture indeed.

About the term ego death, it’s again an issue about the definition and that’s the whole problem.
You can’t talk or argue about things if you have differing definitions of that thing.

@retoor hm if you wanted to spend it for the most useless case… why haven’t you donated it to some Woke society of DEI or something?

Sounds sus if you ask me.

@retoor lol, yes, that makes a lot of sense.

Need… to resist… the urge… to make… a joke… about ostream's mum…. aaaahh….

@Demolishun I’m just someone who is very interested in this topic and absorbs everything about it that is available on the internet. I’m not an actual scientist and I have not studied it, so I can’t answer everything and in details.

But I can tell you that there are many unsolved mysteries and problems in the theories about our universe.

However, how stars work is one of the best understood things in astro physics (it’s even in the name lol).
There is no "problem of energy generation".
It’s solved. It’s nuclear fusion.

Jupiter is not a sun simply because it doesn’t have enough mass to produce enough gravitational pressure to start fusion.
That’s not a mystery.

@antigermanist do white kids disgust you that much that you won’t even answer that hypothetical question?

@retoor please, no shame in showing off ^^

@retoor one more thing (I ran out of characters)

You said that you were atheist and became a theist.

I was a theist and became atheist :)

@retoor yes there are such people, but I think most atheists are not like that. They are atheists because they simply don’t believe it.
But that’s just my personal believe, I have no evidence ;)
Anyways, no I wouldn’t become a believer in that case :)

There is an interesting talk that I watched recently.
It was about this specific distinction or categorization of beliefs.

So there are people who really want to believe, and actively try to find god, but simply can’t. I think they are called non resistant non believers.
And there are those who actually don't want to believe and actively resist it.

Funny that I’m not even sure where I belong. Probably the non resistant but maybe a little bit resistant :)

I can’t tell the future but right now and for the past 25 years or so, I’ve been so convinced about atheism that I really can’t imagine any reason that could make me starting to believe.
And I’m becoming more convinced every day.

@iiii I think I get what you are saying but I’m skeptical about if it makes sense, philosophically.

You could probably define ego death as actual death, because if you have no ego, what’s the difference? In both cases you can’t experience it.

@retoor it’s a bit technical but simply put it’s something that can happen any time if it turns out to be true that our universe is in a state of so called false vacuum. When this false vacuum turns into the state of true vacuum, at any place in the observable universe, it will trigger a kind of chain reaction and will turn everything next to it into the same state. This shockwave will expand spherically with the speed of light and will eventually hit earth. Literally everything will cease to exist.

By definition we will never be able to see it coming because information can’t travel faster than light.

So, in a sense it’s not worth worrying about because when it happens, no one will be around to have witnessed it.

@retoor yeah I know what you mean. I had a similar experience. I always wanted to make my own language because all the other languages that I knew had different things that I didn’t like.
This dream died when Swift came out. I realized that it’s what I always wanted and more and that I could never beat it.

@TheBeardedOne two bosses or one boss with two phases? 🙃

@retoor btw there is a way how the world could end any second, but it‘s not by the death of the sun. It‘s by vacuum decay.
It will be quick and painless though.