• mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    such a negative way to put it. I smoke weed. Into geology. Who doesn’t like fossils right?

    And who doesn’t have some kind of internal monologue, even if it’s just the ‘haha you fucked that up nicely’ sarcasm when you bang your feet on some furniture? slandering all those decent, fine things with spirituality seems rude, and uncalled for.

    • Leg@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      That was my reaction as well.

      “I do have voices in my head. They’re called thoughts, and I highly recommend the experience.”

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        10 months ago

        “I do have voices in my head. They’re called thoughts, and I highly recommend the experience.”

        Well put!

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          10 months ago

          But who is the author of said thoughts? From whence do they arise? If you look carefully you’ll find that there is no author and that the self is an illusion that arises from the nature of consciousness. This is the essential insight of Buddhism and other contemplative traditions.

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            10 months ago

            I’ve been doing the intro course on Sam Harris’ app Waking Up.

            Meditation is kind of hard.

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      10 months ago

      Some people evidently do not hear a voice in their head. It generally blows the minds of people who do, but minds are so varied its possible we’re misunderstanding each other when discussing voices in head. Similar to the question if two people see red, but only know it’s red because someone taught them, can we be absolutely sure we both experience the exact same “red”?

      If your mental white balance is off, everything would vary in the same amount, but if you could b9th project the image you see somehow into another mind it would look different.

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          10 months ago

          I think what chatokun is talking about is that some people don’t hear their own voice in the way that you describe. I think I am similar to you, in that my thoughts often form a clear, internal dialogue, but I know people who just don’t. It baffles me, because I can’t imagine what the inside of their head must sound like.

          On the flip side, I am fairly sure that I have aphantasia (lack of ability to visualise), so often people get confused at this in a similar way. If you’ve never had a thing and don’t really understand what it feels like, it’s hard to understand what you’re apparently missing

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    10 months ago

    Reminder to look out for the Lunar Festival when it comes around in the warmer months. It’s fun, lots of vendors and cool stuff to check out. Lots of weed smoking rock collectors with voices in their heads, as one might expect ❤️

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    10 months ago

    What ever is “spiritual” though? Not in a gotcha way, in legit wondering about it, because everyone i ask just says what boils do “some stuff I do sometimes”, which doesn’t sound like the right answer.

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      10 months ago

      Every answer I’ve gotten boils down to being afraid of there being nothing else. People find whatever poppycock to justify the “I’m sure there’s something more”.

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      10 months ago

      If you just have curiosity to know what “spritual” is, I’d recommend seeing a man on YouTube, his name is J Krishnamurti. He has answers to your questions. But you indeed has to have courage and willingness to listen what the man says.

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        10 months ago

        But you indeed has to have courage and willingness to listen what the man says.

        What a weird answer. I’ve never needed courage to hear a definition of a word before

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          10 months ago

          It’s a very condescending way to answer. Not to mention the second someone says that kind of thing there’s a high chance what they are suggesting is a scam/cult/conspiracy theory or something similar.

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          10 months ago

          You need courage when your already set year long believes are challenged, which spirituality is all about. You are brave I know.

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    10 months ago

    Yup, but on the flip side if she smoked rocks and collected weed now we’re onto something.