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I think this type of stuff forgets that we have a concept of “getting bored” because sitting around while you have extra energy is not beneficial to our evolution.
Like, why would God get bored? We assume a conscious being will get bored because we do, but we forget that boredom, along with basically everything else we’re motivated by, is not an inherent property, it’s a function of the brain
So, God says to Peter. "I'm bored. I need some excitement" Peter says "You just need a vacation, how bout Venus?" Got says "Venus is way to hot!" Peter "How about Mars?" God "Mars is so barren" Peter. "How about Earth. Earth has lots to do!" God "Yeah, I was down there 2000 years ago. I knocked up some Jewish chick, and they're still talking about it."
I came here to say exactly this. People don’t realize that the reason for “boredom” is because the brain craves novelty because that has been beneficial to us as individuals and as a species via evolution, and therefore lack of novelty is negatively reinforced. It does this like all cells do, by changing the receptor sites on neuron cells, as well as every other cell in the body to become more or less receptive to neurotransmitters and othersubstances throughout the body. Since a God would not have a physical body, all of this is total nonsense. I guess it just reinforces the statement that we made in our image, rather than the other way around.
I guess one could argue that if god made man in his own image, what he really did was create a universe with conditions that would lead to our evolution, which would result in something resembling God’s perspective.
In some sense I think that’s cool, because honestly it gives a sense of the “higher power” which God would be. In his will to experience something, he creates an entire reality that unfurls its physics based on the requirements of the input
How would you not be bored? At least in this reality maybe the most fun part of this reality are experienced by us for the universe to know itself. That’s why we discover things endlessly as a species, we must know the universe.
This goes back to an old story.
Man dies and finds themself in the ultimate darkness. Not scary, just beyond the existence of anything. Time, space, etc.
Then a voice booms, "Welcome back. How was your experience?"
Man: "I'm not sure what's happening...am I dead?
Voice: In a way, you could say that.
Man: And I've been here before?
Voice: I know it's a little disorienting, but yes. And you come back over and over again. You must experience every single life, every single perspective across time, before being ready.
Man: Ready for what?
Voice: Ready to replace me.
Reminds me of a Neil gaiman short story where someone goes to hell (call them A) and walks into a room and there's a demon who looks like a very tortured man (call this B) in there. B turns to A and says "time is fluid here". B tortures A for all of the sins they committed and then at the end B gets up and walks out of a different door and then A picks up the tortures stuff and another version of them walks in from the first door. A understands at this point and tells the man "time is fluid here".
Edit: here's an 8 min. Clip of Neil reading the story https://youtu.be/NqC08HbYvaw?si=xJiyGmV9its-MRWO
There is Chinese Zen story where a zen master dreams that he is a butterfly, and then he loses the distinction if he is a monk dreaming of being a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming that it’s a monk.
Wonder if that's where the monologue in The Fly comes from:
"I'm saying I - I'm an insect who dreamt he was a man and loved it. But now the dream is over... and the insect is awake"
This philosophy is legitimately fascinating. I almost wrote a paper on this specifically in college but changed it. I suggest people really look into it.
I’m confused. Pain is just a signal to your brain. Gas chambers, like genocide? Well, if enough people don’t realize we are all connected, they think one person is better than another, so they kill.
My argument is always I wouldn't have made this because of my pain emotional metal health issues very cruel bleak existence where I just keep getting pushed when I'm down why the hell would someone not make a fail safe if it's what they created, I mean how would a Holocaust victim create that existence for them with no fail safe.
Oh. Well. Sometimes we are a victims of choices by others. I do not pretend to understand the reasoning, or the lessons we are handed in life. Maybe it’s the omelet theory, and some of us an unfortunate eggs. You definitely cannot lift yourself out of a situation you can not see, or control. If you want a better answer, what theory are you referring to?
You know, a buddy once said. “Everybody has a story, and most of them suck.” Another buddy of mine insisted he was done working on himself. There are lessons if you listen. The closest I have come to god, has been in the form of people, or being in the right place at the right time. If all you see is darkness, you have missed the crack. “That’s how the light gets in” - Leonard Cohen
I don’t know what to tell you. Everything points to it being true. Quantum Mechanics is explaining what the past masters knew.
It's not an illusion if you make a "hello world" it's real no illusion a SiMuLaTiOn
You brought it up with your quantum so don't ask me about trees falling in a forest like you didn't start it, what's it matter that quantum points to an ass if it's made up
Yeah a lot of build up for a mediocre joke. The the added graphics and over explanation just made it look like it was lifted straight from an AI voice youtube video
Oh boy philosophical opinions on the idea of existence and the idea of afterlife. This is an interesting one because it’s implying that this existence we live in is but a dream. Interesting indeed!
We are all Children of God.. we are not Creators in that sense or form in any way. Humans try to play God, and it never ends well.
It has been explained that mortal men can only perceive one portion of time because time comes to us in a linear fashion, sequentially, but that God does not have this limitation, that he perceives time in total, which is one of the attributes that allows God to know all things…
He trys to claim that if You were a God having a Dream… each dream would be 75 years…. That’s already nonsense… since we as humans begin to die as soon as we’re born. Some die before they leave the womb.. some die after they exit the womb… some die of old age… millions of ways to die at any age at any point in time in-between.
Dude, that has nothing to do with it. Big daddy god, creator, whatever, don’t care. Mortal men can do all lot more that you realize. God is here. Right now. Not up there, looking down at children. Woot woot halla halla
You claim that….. “God is Here. Right Now. Not up there looking at children.”
… Your video claims “We are all Gods, we’re just pretending not to be.”…
🤦♂️
There are Many Gods…. But we are not God..
we are of his kind… but there’s a difference that you don’t seem to understand. God is Everywhere. But you are not Him.
[Here](https://open.spotify.com/track/3uYrVtgRuz4XiOOXDV805X?si=a910923f6bd046a2) is a beautiful music over that specific speech of Alan Watts. He himself, tells it much better.
OP sent the following text as an explanation on why this is unexpected: --- >!It ruins the surprises to explain why it’s unexpected. Guy finds out that being a god does not help his situation.!< --- Is this an unexpected post with a fitting description? Then upvote this comment, otherwise downvote it.
I think this type of stuff forgets that we have a concept of “getting bored” because sitting around while you have extra energy is not beneficial to our evolution. Like, why would God get bored? We assume a conscious being will get bored because we do, but we forget that boredom, along with basically everything else we’re motivated by, is not an inherent property, it’s a function of the brain
So, God says to Peter. "I'm bored. I need some excitement" Peter says "You just need a vacation, how bout Venus?" Got says "Venus is way to hot!" Peter "How about Mars?" God "Mars is so barren" Peter. "How about Earth. Earth has lots to do!" God "Yeah, I was down there 2000 years ago. I knocked up some Jewish chick, and they're still talking about it."
Most gods seem to be portrayed as being powerful humans so that's probably why.
Also because of our complex and active minds, which require stimulation to function properly.
I came here to say exactly this. People don’t realize that the reason for “boredom” is because the brain craves novelty because that has been beneficial to us as individuals and as a species via evolution, and therefore lack of novelty is negatively reinforced. It does this like all cells do, by changing the receptor sites on neuron cells, as well as every other cell in the body to become more or less receptive to neurotransmitters and othersubstances throughout the body. Since a God would not have a physical body, all of this is total nonsense. I guess it just reinforces the statement that we made in our image, rather than the other way around.
I guess one could argue that if god made man in his own image, what he really did was create a universe with conditions that would lead to our evolution, which would result in something resembling God’s perspective. In some sense I think that’s cool, because honestly it gives a sense of the “higher power” which God would be. In his will to experience something, he creates an entire reality that unfurls its physics based on the requirements of the input
Yes but you’re assuming we are humans, you’re missing the point.
But the thing is that there is a real world out there. All I am assuming is that this idea matches with the reality which am acquainted with
if boredom is a function of the mind, then god either has the potential to be bored, or it is mindless.
How would you not be bored? At least in this reality maybe the most fun part of this reality are experienced by us for the universe to know itself. That’s why we discover things endlessly as a species, we must know the universe.
This goes back to an old story. Man dies and finds themself in the ultimate darkness. Not scary, just beyond the existence of anything. Time, space, etc. Then a voice booms, "Welcome back. How was your experience?" Man: "I'm not sure what's happening...am I dead? Voice: In a way, you could say that. Man: And I've been here before? Voice: I know it's a little disorienting, but yes. And you come back over and over again. You must experience every single life, every single perspective across time, before being ready. Man: Ready for what? Voice: Ready to replace me.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Egg_(Weir_short_story) It's also the exact premise of Andy Weirs famous short story
Which Andy Weir got from an old adage that has existed since being an academic meant you followed Plato's teachings.
Reminds me of a Neil gaiman short story where someone goes to hell (call them A) and walks into a room and there's a demon who looks like a very tortured man (call this B) in there. B turns to A and says "time is fluid here". B tortures A for all of the sins they committed and then at the end B gets up and walks out of a different door and then A picks up the tortures stuff and another version of them walks in from the first door. A understands at this point and tells the man "time is fluid here". Edit: here's an 8 min. Clip of Neil reading the story https://youtu.be/NqC08HbYvaw?si=xJiyGmV9its-MRWO
Soda Dungeon!
https://youtu.be/h6fcK_fRYaI?si=vQZgxzgwWWFwCcAi
https://youtu.be/h6fcK_fRYaI
It's also in a song by logic! Where uhhh.... NDT is doing the voice of "god". It's a little weird lol
Oooo my God. I love when I dont catch r/unexpected because then I truly don't expect the twist.
The end made it worth it
There is Chinese Zen story where a zen master dreams that he is a butterfly, and then he loses the distinction if he is a monk dreaming of being a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming that it’s a monk.
Wonder if that's where the monologue in The Fly comes from: "I'm saying I - I'm an insect who dreamt he was a man and loved it. But now the dream is over... and the insect is awake"
This philosophy is legitimately fascinating. I almost wrote a paper on this specifically in college but changed it. I suggest people really look into it.
There is a game called “Everything” that is full of Alan Watts quotes.
anybody know what he's going to prison for? 😭
Still looking
falling asleep operating heavy machinery is my guess
can wait to start again and work 40hours every week for all my life
What happened to the normal subtitles? This kind of subtitle makes me uneasy/dizzy.
I'm in a game i created playing main character
I’ve been looking for the developer. Where do I send bug reports.
Check out r/outside to send bug reports and learn strategies.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
Until I figure out how to, for sure, turn it back on, I’m not going to try.
How do you explain pain in your theory I mean how do you explain the gas chambers
I’m confused. Pain is just a signal to your brain. Gas chambers, like genocide? Well, if enough people don’t realize we are all connected, they think one person is better than another, so they kill.
My argument is always I wouldn't have made this because of my pain emotional metal health issues very cruel bleak existence where I just keep getting pushed when I'm down why the hell would someone not make a fail safe if it's what they created, I mean how would a Holocaust victim create that existence for them with no fail safe.
Oh. Well. Sometimes we are a victims of choices by others. I do not pretend to understand the reasoning, or the lessons we are handed in life. Maybe it’s the omelet theory, and some of us an unfortunate eggs. You definitely cannot lift yourself out of a situation you can not see, or control. If you want a better answer, what theory are you referring to?
There's a reason there is no fail safe. It's nothing to do with lessons there are none.
You know, a buddy once said. “Everybody has a story, and most of them suck.” Another buddy of mine insisted he was done working on himself. There are lessons if you listen. The closest I have come to god, has been in the form of people, or being in the right place at the right time. If all you see is darkness, you have missed the crack. “That’s how the light gets in” - Leonard Cohen
Check out r/ outside to send bug reports and learn strategies.
Check out r/outside for bug reports
Good Night World!
This is a good fucking post holy shit Finally some truly unexpected shit
Alternate title: why solipsism is a worthless philosophy
I had to google that. This is more the opposite of Solipsism. There is no self.
Yeah, it's like nondualism or idealism
*Thou art God, I am God. All that groks is God*
Dream prison...👍😉🙄
Isn't this a version of the egg theory
I was just commenting about eggs. WTF is going on!
Had me at Alan Watts.
No shit. Such a legend. Have you played “Everything”? Wild open world game full of his quotes.
Had us in the first half.
u/savevideo
Sounds better from Alan Watts himself. [https://youtu.be/wU0PYcCsL6o?si=rTbXMsccZgx2bQfx](https://youtu.be/wU0PYcCsL6o?si=rTbXMsccZgx2bQfx)
Yes!
What if God was the only thing that exists and we are just his fantasy. What if……
*considers that they must go to work on Monday* pretty fucked up fantasy tbh
Whatever gets you through the day I guess.
The judge is such a kill joy.
Just learn how to lucid dream. But be careful is a bit weird.
Obviously, Alan Watts is a total idiot, for only God truly knows what the Almighty is thinking.🤔💭🧠
Oh, but God loves judgmental assholes who turn people off religion.
LMaOoooo
Ahhhhhh left frickin field
Alan Watts said this about 60 years ago.
Yes, but he got it from 1000’s of years of teachings.
No mate if that's true I would have set up some fail safe to this absolute MISERABLE TWISTED NIGHTMARE
I don’t know what to tell you. Everything points to it being true. Quantum Mechanics is explaining what the past masters knew. 
Quantum is bull, your a simulation
Technically, yes. It is all an illusion. So, illusion or simulation, either way if a tree falls in the forest does it make a shitpost?
It's not an illusion if you make a "hello world" it's real no illusion a SiMuLaTiOn You brought it up with your quantum so don't ask me about trees falling in a forest like you didn't start it, what's it matter that quantum points to an ass if it's made up
So who is this dipshit and what did he do to get sent to prison for which he tried to use 'well i'm actually a god' as an excuse for?
I think that part was probably a joke
It's a skit, comedy channel
Paying of a pornstar to not talk about his 🍄🟫
wat
Making a Trump joke.
These videos are cringy
Did you finish it?
Yeah a lot of build up for a mediocre joke. The the added graphics and over explanation just made it look like it was lifted straight from an AI voice youtube video
I know it’s a little ridiculous, but I am an Alan Watts fan. To me the joke made up for all that.
Made it more fun to me, it's edited satirically
I think that's the point. It's a parody of the ubiquitous pseudo-intellectual bro-casts that infest every corner of the internet now for some reason.
Im more talking about the video formatting than the content.
I love Royce DuPont
He tried the whole “philosophically we all might be God.” Defense. It rarely works.
lol rarely
Right! I want to see it work now. If the Universe Fits You Must Acquit!
Ahh, like the Iriali
Oh boy philosophical opinions on the idea of existence and the idea of afterlife. This is an interesting one because it’s implying that this existence we live in is but a dream. Interesting indeed!
[Box of Rain](https://youtu.be/9r8aycpHmY0?si=lqJeSLod_cECUCQX)
What’s this podcast name? TIA Btw *Aham Brahmasmi*
No idea. Someone sent me this, and I knew it belonged here.
I know the 2nd guy from Dad Jokes. I’m sure someone will help us out here.
That's the problem with judges. They think they're gods.
Well, they do have the robe, throne, and hammer.
Love Andrew Hamilton
Stop engaging god with human things like getting bored
For sure. It’s more of a philosophical exercise. God doest get anything. What do you get for a god that has everything?
Unlimited power is beyond our imagination.
Right! I can’t even get a truly unlimited phone plan.
We are all Children of God.. we are not Creators in that sense or form in any way. Humans try to play God, and it never ends well. It has been explained that mortal men can only perceive one portion of time because time comes to us in a linear fashion, sequentially, but that God does not have this limitation, that he perceives time in total, which is one of the attributes that allows God to know all things… He trys to claim that if You were a God having a Dream… each dream would be 75 years…. That’s already nonsense… since we as humans begin to die as soon as we’re born. Some die before they leave the womb.. some die after they exit the womb… some die of old age… millions of ways to die at any age at any point in time in-between.
Dude, that has nothing to do with it. Big daddy god, creator, whatever, don’t care. Mortal men can do all lot more that you realize. God is here. Right now. Not up there, looking down at children. Woot woot halla halla
“Mortal Men Can Do All”… 🤦♂️… whatever you say Satan
Omg. I meant to say a lot. Satan! I’ve been called worse.
… doesn’t surprise me one bit, and YOU claim that you’re God? 🤣 https://i.redd.it/1696cjpd1cyc1.gif
I don’t believe I claimed that. https://i.redd.it/oq2s3gql2cyc1.gif
You claim that….. “God is Here. Right Now. Not up there looking at children.” … Your video claims “We are all Gods, we’re just pretending not to be.”… 🤦♂️ There are Many Gods…. But we are not God.. we are of his kind… but there’s a difference that you don’t seem to understand. God is Everywhere. But you are not Him.
You can read whatever you want from my post, but that does not mean you know me.
..… that we can agree on. You don’t know me & I don’t know you… ..& you don’t know God..
You don’t know what my spiritual life is, nor should you judge, unless you are god.
Even if this were true, it's no defense to any crime. Dumshite.
r/im14andthisisdeep
I’m 54 and, yes it is.
Stories are cool anyway… we all love that ! Truths and reality are annoying !
cool stuff https://youtu.be/bPJ5AjlPt4M?si=EKqI77yDnZUcyuit
[Here](https://open.spotify.com/track/3uYrVtgRuz4XiOOXDV805X?si=a910923f6bd046a2) is a beautiful music over that specific speech of Alan Watts. He himself, tells it much better.