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       Stuff
   DIR By: Swamp
       Date: February 19, 2017, 4:26 pm
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       Just sharing some thoughts after reaching a few 'click moments'
       To me, you only exist in the realm of the end result of my
       senses perceiving you, and since perceptions are not universally
       true, neither are you. By "you" I mean anyone with whom I
       interact. All I can be 'sure' of right now is that I exist; that
       "I am", otherwise I wouldn't be aware of awareness. Everything
       else has been given some kind of made-up role to fit in some
       kind of made-up story by some kind of made-up me.
       I have this overwhelming sense of clatity sometimes. Like
       knowing a comedian isn't surprised by his own jokes, yet his
       audience sure is. This may not make sense, but I guess it
       doesn't have too.
       Ironically, these 'ideas' came to me in a dream haha. I'm loving
       the ride, I find it both equally hilarious and serious at the
       same time.
       For some time now I've had this weird feeling that time and
       space as we know it didn't make sense. At one point I even tried
       to use mathematics to provide an equation to measure the
       'present moment', but no matter how hard I tried I couldn't. The
       only possible scenario I came up with was this:
       The past only exists as fragments of distorted memory, and the
       future is yet to exist, so all we really have is 'right now'.
       Yet the very notion of 'right now' is impossible to fathom as
       time continues rolling forth into a future yet to unfold. So the
       present moment only exists at an infinite clock-stop which is
       beyond measure. Therefore nothing exists apart from infinity.
       These ideas or 'realisations' blew my mind, and I enjoyed every
       moment of it.
       Thanks for letting me ramble on.
       #Post#: 27124--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Stuff
   DIR By: Jed McKenna
       Date: February 19, 2017, 10:17 pm
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       Dear Swamp:
       Thank you for your post and your sharing. Good work. My only
       question is how do you know you exist. You mentioned that you
       know because you are aware... but are you aware? On one level,
       my question appears ridiculous but on another level it is the
       crux of true understanding. You can't say that you know
       something because of something else. In order to really know
       that you exist you need direct experience sans the intervention
       of logic/reason.
       Find the you that you think exists. You have only touched the
       surface of this... but it's a heck of a start... now further.
       Love ya, Jed.
       #Post#: 27125--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Stuff
   DIR By: Swamp
       Date: February 19, 2017, 11:00 pm
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       Thanks Jed.
       I understand that I can't know something just because it's
       relevant to something else, because that assumes that the
       something else is a thing in the first place.
       And my 'feelings' on awareness and my experience so far is hard
       to describe. It is difficult using words to describe something
       that words can't describe.
       Further indeed.... 😆✌
       #Post#: 27142--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Stuff
   DIR By: Swamp
       Date: February 20, 2017, 6:26 am
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       Hi Jed,
       I feel like I'm moving quickly, even though there is nowhere to
       go.
       I often feel like I'm inhabiting some sort of human character
       that has been cast into a film without script or direction. As
       though this human character is an experiment, or plaything, for
       the director to muck around with however it pleases. It's as
       though my role as a human is limited to experiencing the ride,
       yet having no control over where that ride goes.
       Time and space do not seem linear. However, my human character
       experiences it this way. It logs little bits n pieces in
       chronological order as a polite gesture to allow my current
       experience to make sense of the infinite. It sounds like I'm
       trying to intellectualise things, and maybe I am, but it doesn't
       feel like that.
       These explanations above may appear cliché or derivative, but
       they don't feel like it, even though they are. They feel like
       the best possible way at this stage to say what is needed to be
       said.
       This film-immersion experience is amusing at times, and utterly
       pointless. I feel lucky to see things this way; it both connects
       me and leaves me all alone. The paradox of connecting is letting
       go. Traveling alone is the only way now I appear to be able to
       travel. There mustn't be another way. Traveling in pairs or
       groups is a distraction and introduces false hope, which I have
       experienced, and can be a difficult obstacle to overcome.
       There's times when I want to share this experience with others,
       but I know that is just my ego in play; wanting justification
       for what i'm doing, which is funny because I'm not really doing
       anything. This may not make sense, but there may be nothing to
       make sense of in the first place. I find this human experience
       so humorous. Like I'm part of some elaborate joke that I'm
       beginning to understand the punchline of. I (as a human
       character) seem to be that punchline, and that's the funniest
       part of all.
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       Re: Stuff
   DIR By: Jed McKenna
       Date: February 20, 2017, 10:14 am
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       It's not that the Gods must be crazy, it's that the Gods have a
       hell of a sense of humor.
       Love ya, Jed.
       #Post#: 27162--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Stuff
   DIR By: Swamp
       Date: February 20, 2017, 5:50 pm
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       Don't they just. Anyways, I'm off to play for a while now.
       Thanks for the forum. 😊😆
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       Re: Stuff
   DIR By: Jed McKenna
       Date: February 21, 2017, 3:14 am
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       ;) ;) ;)
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       Re: Stuff
   DIR By: Swamp
       Date: March 5, 2017, 7:28 am
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       Haha well that was weird.... "This" expresses "That", just
       becsuse it can. That's pretty much all there is to it. Quite
       funny really.
       What's your favorite color?
       #Post#: 27422--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Stuff
   DIR By: Jed McKenna
       Date: March 6, 2017, 2:16 am
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       Where does this end and that begin...
       The  color of space.
       Love ya, Jed.
       #Post#: 27426--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Stuff
   DIR By: Swamp
       Date: March 6, 2017, 2:53 am
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       There is no ending or beginning. Are you asking me a question or
       being rhetorical? There's no reason why this expresses that. It
       just does. Why not? Consciousness experiencing itself,  or
       Infinity wanting to feel finite? It doesn't really matter. All
       these questions and explanations are pointless; they function
       within a different paradigm. Having said all that, it's fun to
       talk about.
       Anyway, I'm done here. Thanks for your time, I appreciate it. If
       you ever find yourself in Perth, Australia hit me up, I'll make
       you curry.
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