I just have a robust memetic immune defence system that at once recognises the absurdity of the suggested viewpoint, and that apart from the warm fuzzies it may induce from contemplating the Deep Wisdom that “we are all One!”, it has no implications for anticipated experiences.
I don’t understand why everyone thinks this is such a good thing.
Well, I don’t think warm fuzzies from Deep (i.e. fake) Wisdom are a good thing. Does anyone here? I prefer to get mine from reality, or from fiction, not from the latter passed off as the former.
I mean, I don’t understand why this would be a source of warm fuzzies. Everyone else is really you? That means none of the people I care about ever existed! I can’t imagine people continuing to function with a belief like that, and yet there it is, a Facebook group whose members smile knowingly at each other, each member fully complacent with the idea that none of the others really exist.
Maybe if your life is miserable (e.g., let’s say you are estranged from your family, you are unemployed or have a soul-crushing job, and/or you have no close friends and no romantic prospects) you get a thrill out of believing that none of it is real, that those bothersome people you interact with are in fact only aspects of yourself.
(Partially derot13ing for clarity:)
Nonsense on stilts. Next!
I like your phrasing, but how is this so?
I just have a robust memetic immune defence system that at once recognises the absurdity of the suggested viewpoint, and that apart from the warm fuzzies it may induce from contemplating the Deep Wisdom that “we are all One!”, it has no implications for anticipated experiences.
I don’t understand why everyone thinks this is such a good thing. I wouldn’t have rot13′d this post if I thought this was a good thing.
Well, I don’t think warm fuzzies from Deep (i.e. fake) Wisdom are a good thing. Does anyone here? I prefer to get mine from reality, or from fiction, not from the latter passed off as the former.
I mean, I don’t understand why this would be a source of warm fuzzies. Everyone else is really you? That means none of the people I care about ever existed! I can’t imagine people continuing to function with a belief like that, and yet there it is, a Facebook group whose members smile knowingly at each other, each member fully complacent with the idea that none of the others really exist.
Maybe if your life is miserable (e.g., let’s say you are estranged from your family, you are unemployed or have a soul-crushing job, and/or you have no close friends and no romantic prospects) you get a thrill out of believing that none of it is real, that those bothersome people you interact with are in fact only aspects of yourself.
This is a kind of META argument. “How miserable you must be, to suggest something like this …”
Doesn’t matter how miserable or not he is. It only matters if he is right or not.
I’m just answering Rukifellth’s question as to how could someone derive warm fuzzies from such a belief, not making any kind of argument against it.
I would derive a great number of warm fuzzies from an argument against it.
“People are crazy, the world is mad.” Having boggled at them, I pass by.