Do you feel like you are with someone, even if you're alone?

[moonbogg]

I feel that Jebus is always with me, and the archangel Gabriel too, who is completely a badass. So I'm set.

You joke about it, but don't you count as someone? So why would you ever feel alone? Who do you consult when contemplating a decision or making a moral judgment? Who do you entertain when you watch a funny movie? Who is it that cries when you hear something sad? Its that person who is always with you. If you love yourself, then you matter and you will always be in excellent company.

 

[manimal]

Oh shit. We just got hash tagged. This feels threatening. What are you planning to do with that hash tag?

i dont know I dont twatter.

 

[moonbogg]

i dont know I dont twatter.

You have to admit, the hash tag has become a kind of threatening thing. You flash a hash tag in a thread, and it could mean that you plan on attacking the person with thousands of people. Its a symbol that unites people for a specific reason, making a search easy and effective. It allows planning, coordination, and effective attack by thousands. Its the modern day dagger, and you sir have raised your blouse to reveal it.

#manimal
#dangerous
#violent
#threatening
#aggressive

 

[pontifex]

wtf??

 

[IronWing]

Have you concidered animism? You never have to be alone.

 

[moonbogg]

Have you concidered animism? You never have to be alone.

Plants with souls sound dangerous.

 

[moonbogg]

Sorry Manimal. I was just messing around but ended up going a little squirrely on that one. I don't feel threatened by your hash tag flashing. But you aren't really going to come after me, right?

 

[Naer]

Op is a narccisist

 

[moonbogg]

Op is a narccisist

How right you are.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthy_narcissism

 

[SlitheryDee]

I'm always alone, even when I'm with other people. I think we're all alone, no matter how many different ways we try to convince ourselves otherwise. All of us are locked in our own heads, with nothing but an innate ability to trigger emotional responses based on words and body language to provide the illusion of connectedness. You see someone transmitting all the signs of sadness, and that makes you feel sad. You think you're feeling sad "together" or perhaps "sharing" emotions, but you're really only two islands feeling sad at the same time. Both alone, both perhaps feeling two qualitatively different emotions that you each label sadness.

 

[sandorski]

I don't feel alone, but I also don't feel like there's another person there.

When I was a Christian I often felt another person was there, but even then that was a conscious fabrication. What I mean by that is, I didn't suddenly feel a presence, instead I would first believe there was a presence and, for lack of a better term, I conjured that Other into existence.

 

[Ruptga]

Who cares about your imaginary friends, what I want to know is what sleeping feels like - not falling asleep, waking, or dreaming, just sleeping itself. Help me moonbogg, you're my only hope.

And did you ever do anything with that man cave? Your funyuns are going to get stale.

 

[moonbogg]

I'm always alone, even when I'm with other people. I think we're all alone, no matter how many different ways we try to convince ourselves otherwise. All of us are locked in our own heads, with nothing but an innate ability to trigger emotional responses based on words and body language to provide the illusion of connectedness. You see someone transmitting all the signs of sadness, and that makes you feel sad. You think you're feeling sad "together" or perhaps "sharing" emotions, but you're really only two islands feeling sad at the same time. Both alone, both perhaps feeling two qualitatively different emotions that you each label sadness.

This is fascinating. Its also actually true as far as I can tell. Our brains are where the action happens, and all of that action happens in the absolute darkness of our skull. The action happens in a place that is sealed off from the outside world, yet we experience an imaginary representation of that world vividly, and we take it as truth.

I don't feel alone, but I also don't feel like there's another person there.

When I was a Christian I often felt another person was there, but even then that was a conscious fabrication. What I mean by that is, I didn't suddenly feel a presence, instead I would first believe there was a presence and, for lack of a better term, I conjured that Other into existence.

I had that when I was Christian also. I felt Jesus was present and watching over me when I went to sleep. I felt his presence. Now I still feel a similar presence, but that presence is me. I don't feel a second person, I feel myself, my own presence and I feel I am in good company.

Who cares about your imaginary friends, what I want to know is what sleeping feels like - not falling asleep, waking, or dreaming, just sleeping itself. Help me moonbogg, you're my only hope.

And did you ever do anything with that man cave? Your funyuns are going to get stale.

Sleeping is what reminds me that death is nothing to fear, although some natural anxiety of death is hard to shake at times. When I sleep, I forget myself and my family. I forget everything. It all goes away. If nothingness has any meaning, its here, during dreamless sleep. But my eyes always open and I have the benefit of memory. One day, my eyes will close for the last time, but a new set of eyes will open, perhaps fresh eyes or eyes with their own unique memories. Either way I don't see much difference between theirs and mine. If you woke up tomorrow morning with different memories, Ruptga would be gone, but you wouldn't notice nor would it bother you, yet there you would still be.

 

[Ruptga]

Sleeping is what reminds me that death is nothing to fear, although some natural anxiety of death is hard to shake at times. When I sleep, I forget myself and my family. I forget everything. It all goes away. If nothingness has any meaning, its here, during dreamless sleep. But my eyes always open and I have the benefit of memory. One day, my eyes will close for the last time, but a new set of eyes will open, perhaps fresh eyes or eyes with their own unique memories. Either way I don't see much difference between theirs and mine. If you woke up tomorrow morning with different memories, Ruptga would be gone, but you wouldn't notice nor would it bother you, yet there you would still be.

How can you be so right in this thread and so wrong in the other one? I think this lends credence to the moonbogg#1 and moonbogg#2 theory laid out earlier by z1ggy.

Still waiting on that mancave though

 

[Rakehellion]

When I am by myself, even in the middle of the desert or in a forest, I feel like I am with someone still. I feel like I am someone who I can trust and rely on and to keep myself company. I feel that as long as I have mychother, we will be fine even in a tough situation. Do you feel like you aren't alone even though you are physically alone? I never feel alone.

How often do you go to the desert of the forest?

 

[Ruptga]

How often do you go to the desert of the forest?

Does a petrified forest count?

 

[IronWing]

Does a petrified forest count?

No. Math problems leave it stumped.

 

[Ruptga]

No. Math problems leave it stumped.

Someone once told me "time flies." I tried, but they were too fast.

 

[Markbnj]

You joke about it, but don't you count as someone? So why would you ever feel alone? Who do you consult when contemplating a decision or making a moral judgment? Who do you entertain when you watch a funny movie? Who is it that cries when you hear something sad? Its that person who is always with you. If you love yourself, then you matter and you will always be in excellent company.

Yes, I count as a single someone. It may be that my persona is made up of many subpersonas that have some individual identity, but the parts are subservient to the whole, and so far I have managed maintain my homogeneity. So, based on the accepted definition of the word "alone" there is no question that I'm alone when I'm alone, and you're crazy.

 

[manimal]

Sorry Manimal. I was just messing around but ended up going a little squirrely on that one. I don't feel threatened by your hash tag flashing. But you aren't really going to come after me, right?

dont fret brah


use fretless bass instead

 

[moonbogg]

How can you be so right in this thread and so wrong in the other one? I think this lends credence to the moonbogg#1 and moonbogg#2 theory laid out earlier by z1ggy.

Still waiting on that mancave though

Moonbogg#1 is right 100% of the time, and Moonbogg#2 is right 70% of the time. This makes mychother right about 85% of the time, so there is room for some error.

 

[Muse]

No, and the only voices I've ever heard were from living people actually talking.

I am reminded of something Henry Miller said about always being in the accompaniment of God after a certain point in his life. Well, seeing as I am God, that kind of thing would be redundant.

When I am by myself, even in the middle of the desert or in a forest, I feel like I am with someone still. I feel like I am someone who I can trust and rely on and to keep myself company. I feel that as long as I have mychother, we will be fine even in a tough situation. Do you feel like you aren't alone even though you are physically alone? I never feel alone.

Hmm, I think you are a little schitzy there.

You should, of course, realize that it's just you. You have some insecurity issues, nothing uncommon in this world!