i'm sorry but this is extremely reddit. the concentration of reddit in her article far exceeds almost all of the actual examples from reddit itself that she complains about

i think it's one of those things where the meaning of "abolish religion" is exactly as strong or weak as is most convenient for them in a particular conversation

i didn't buy them

The Incredible Hulk: What Savage Beast

Chainsaw Man: Buddy Stories

hulk and chainsaw man novels in the manga section at the used book store

ⓘ consensus reality is dying. like and repost to kill it faster.

i kinda realllly want this outfit... i would have to bleach my hair though

i keep seeing both "they aren't conscious which means by extension they can't reason" and "they can reason which means by extension they're conscious" and i don't see how one has to follow from the other!

i thought you might mike that here’s some more

SLS, NASA's Moon rocket 🌙🚀

to celebrate trans day of visibility i sat in my room playing heroes of might and magic iii and didn't talk to anyone. i don't really want to be visible in general

Chainsaw man meme from the final chapter 232 of the manga. Might be a spoiler for some people so I will write a lot of words at the end of the alt text for people with muted words so they don't see it 1: "thank you... spheal." 2: picture of pokemon rumble spheal 3: "spheal?" 4: "because... um... you are spherical and a seal." 5: "spheal" Chain saw man spoilers chainsaw man spoiler #spoilers #spoiler #chainsawmanspoilers #chainsawman chainsawman anime spoilers manga spoilers

yes, i entirely consider complex tools in active use part of the self. cognition includes all of its functions when i'm using it. but yeah i know language is just a tool, only one that's usually with me, sort of like my cell phone and glasses

i kinda disagree. my "car" only actually functions as a car when my self extends to include it. in such cases the mechanisms inside it and the nerves in my body form a single system that now is capable of not just what my body can do, but also driving. any other time, it's a large piece of metal

admittedly it might be a semantic difference at this point that i consider any interaction with that sensory stream, even if it isn't "me" doing it, to be "thinking"

i do not exaggerate when i say that, for me in trance, when external direction stops, reality ceases to be stable (which i don't mind); i am talking about a state where the self is not there to put consensus reality before the procession of images that pass through my senses and align them.

this part bsky.app/profile/osak... is not actually my issue (well, not always). i'm under no illusions that the linguistically-mediated mind is all of the mind. language is only a tool for interfacing with consensus reality, and with the parts of me i want to be accessible to it

it's impossible to fully deprive the senses, and noticing at all is a type of thinking. thoughts don't have to come from the self at all if consciousness can be occupied by the nonself. as for me, i know what that's like well enough

symbolic manipulation isn't only linguistic. if as in the video i stay deliberately aware of how i feel, even if there's no internal narration, the feeling i'm aware of is a symbol. if it can be referred to at all, it's dynamic, practically good enough to hold in my hand

of course i can remain in trance in absence of external input (and might even feel it as a "silence" of self-directed thought if that's been suggested to me) but it becomes phantasmagoric or outright hallucinatory, which is not an absence of thought in my view

hypnosis, to me, is mostly like dissociation, it's unawareness and disconnection from the world and self, only where i still maintain a specific external anchor. lucid internal thoughts can disappear because they're substituted with external ones

i don't think i get it... being aware of what's going on inside my head and paying attention to what i feel IS thinking. and in moments of silence there's still sensory information, even just swirls of color inside my eyelids, that emerges into thought unbidden if left alone for a moment

idk how

bird keeper from diamond and pearl

i just like birds :>

i am not kidding i want to see blue helmet forces in dc shooting out troops dead. i want dongfeng missiles ready to launch if we ever make a funny move again

i hate american exceptionalism so much can america please be humbled already

wait is it seriously controversial to say "i hope iran wins the war?" haven't we all been talking for weeks about how this is an evil and unprovoked war of aggression? you might as well support russia in ukraine and rwanda in the congo if you're gonna root for a US victory in iran

i love watchmen but i absolutely think a large part of the point is also just a "fuck you" to traditional superhero comics. it does that very well, because the people who made it are good at their jobs, and it was pretty warranted, but some of the bitterness in the comic really is the author's voice

Purrs.

for a while i thought it didn't hit anymore but it turns out that's because i was playing the n64 version. of course that doesn't work

skill issue tbh. super mario 64 ds feels like when i was 9 if i allow it to