Posts by Jonathan Brown6

You’ve got quite the collection of supplements there

St. John's Wort (just watch out for sun exposure if you're taking this stuff)
Tart cherry juice
L-theanine from green tea (take it in pill form, because if you try to get enough through actual tea, you'll be drinking gallons)
Green Magma
Zeolite
Mother's milk
Omega-3 (you need to take a decent amount, from what I gather about 2.5g of DHA/EPA daily)
Magnesium
B-complex

and so on.

Do a little Googling first.

I honestly don't know if any of this actually works... some people swear by these things, but whether it's just a placebo effect or something real is another question entirely. Personally, the best medicine is:

exercise

Anyway, I hope something helps you out.

I just saw this happen with my own eyes! What an absolute disaster... like, when it’s supposedly pulling toxins out of your body (and the water turns pitch black), guess why that’s actually happening? It's because of some damn chemical reaction—the metal is oxidizing! My grandparents already threw $833 away because of this crap!! I can't even begin to explain how livid I am right now!! Does anyone know who we can call to make sure the people peddling this junk actually get punished?

That God of yours doesn't exist in my world.

Yeah, true... Believe me, philosophy pretty much holds the answer to everything. It’s just a matter of whether you're actually ready—and I mean strong enough—to face those answers and tear down all the mental walls you've built up just to finally step out of the box you're living in.

Zeke said:A few years back, I was just so different from everyone else. My brain worked so differently that I didn't even feel like I belonged among "people."
I kept thinking, "Hello? Am I living in some delusion, or is it them?" Something had to shift. Nowadays, I sort of blend in with those "average folks" who exhaust themselves and everyone else with these shallow, meaningless, earthly trivialities—but I still feel like an outlier. I don't fit into that whole mold of the "perfect person" who always has to be beautiful, smart, and chatter about useless things in that typical feminine way. I think it shows how much I try to fit in and actually care about everyday life, and honestly, it makes me sick when I see people making such a huge deal out of ridiculous things... I gave up on philosophizing a long time ago because I realized there's no point. Human brains are just too small to grasp this entire mess called life and all its secrets. It's hard to wrap your head around those dimensions of parallel worlds or whatever—it all just depends on your perspective. As humans, we're limited by how we perceive the world; we'll never uncover those terrifying truths surrounding us, and maybe that’s for the best.

It feels like you were just describing me 🙂. Especially regarding the stupid stuff people obsess over; sometimes it feels like they're living in these little boxes they'll never find their way out of to actually understand something deeper. I fit in a lot better now than when I first wrote this thread. I have to say, philosophy changed me for the better; it opened my eyes. Maybe it also just has to do with growing up and maturing. Either way, it's much easier for me to process things now. Stuff that used to drive me crazy is totally straightforward and non-mystical today.

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"As humans, we're limited by how we perceive the world; we'll never uncover those terrifying truths surrounding us, and maybe that’s for the best."

Why do you think we're limited? Don't think like that. Just think that life is exactly what it needs to be, this reality is what it is, and there aren't any secrets or limitations. Reality is just whatever you see it as. No one is limited unless they want to be.

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"it all just depends on your perspective. As humans, we're limited by how we perceive the world; we'll never uncover those terrifying truths surrounding us, and maybe that’s for the best."

Look, listen to this. Every angle you look from is yours, and it's the only one. You aren't limited! So you'll never know "everything"? What am I supposed to say, that you already know it all? Everything is just an abstraction, and thinking like that just leads to frustration and disappointment (quote: "we'll never uncover those terrifying truths... because maybe that's for the best"). Every day brings something new; don't set boundaries for yourself. Stay open to new insights and accept it as the reality that shapes your spirit and body.

"What do you think, does the universe have a boundary and what's beyond it?" That sounds like a stupid question to me. Why should I care if there's a boundary? I don't know if you get what I'm trying to say, but that's just how I think and how I function.

Look, I’m just going off whatever I picked up in biology class, but my understanding is that you only actually remember dreams if you wake up right during those final REM stages, or maybe within thirty minutes after they wrap up. That’s the phase where certain brain cells basically go through a regeneration process, and that's when the whole "dreaming" thing happens.

Honestly, I just hit a bit of a wall myself. I ran straight into a dead end and then kind of lost my mind over some philosophical nonsense.

grizli said:Consciousness exists outside of time and space; it’s basically everywhere at once.😉

Where'd you even read that? Some random blog?

But honestly, you don't even know if your consciousness would actually make it back during teleportation... You might just end up dead.

Nymph said:Maybe you aren't even you anymore. 😉 There’s this theory out there suggesting that during teleportation, you're actually just creating a perfect duplicate of the person being "moved." The original person would basically vanish forever, replaced by a copy that genuinely believes they were the one who was teleported because, well, they're identical. It's also possible—this is a theory I've been kind of obsessed with lately 😛—that the Nymph who went to sleep last night actually vanished, and when morning came, a new version was created, someone who just happens to think they're Nymph. 🙂

Well, nobody actually knows how teleportation works. And I guess you wouldn't know until you actually tried it.

You've slept before and you know it's still you—your memories, your consciousness... everything.

afriend said:We can pretty much assume your consciousness doesn't just vanish; it’s more like since there’s no perception happening, it isn't clearly "there."
If you could manage to stay a bit more aware during that initial drift into sleep, you might actually realize you can remain conscious even while you're sleeping.
But then the question becomes, who exactly is awake and who is asleep, right? So, try this: as you're sinking into sleep, try to visualize a place you know really well—use all your senses when you imagine it. At the same time, try to stay as alert as possible for as long as you can. You should start seeing some results after about thirty days.

Wait, does that actually work?

hiddenviper9 said:Hey, Jonathan Brown6, did any of this actually make sense to you?
And honestly, do you think it’s even feasible to explain the stuff that keeps people up at night—you know, that whole existential crisis about where we came from—in just "five sentences"?

Do you really think it's even possible to explain it all?

I mean, maybe you could give an answer in a single sentence, provided it’s the truth.

Does anyone have a link to that whole cat-in-a-box story, maybe one where it’s actually explained a bit better? I’ve gone over it a few times now, but I guess I still don't fully get where the cat actually is.

hiddenviper9 said:There isn't even a point in debating this—because there isn't a single living or dead thing in existence that doesn't receive some kind of stimulus at any given moment. I guess it's just a fact.

Are you sure about that? Maybe every single unit just operates entirely on its own, totally independent of whatever is next to it.

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hiddenviper9 says: Look, you wrote: Can a body that has never received any kind of stimulus...
That doesn't even work for a discussion—because there isn't a single body, living or dead, that doesn't receive some kind of stimulus, even in the smallest possible window of time.
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Nancy Fowler61 said:A body without senses? I mean, couldn't there be a deaf, blind, paralyzed person without a nose or a tongue (poor thing 🙂)? And just like that from birth? Fed through an IV? Technically alive, but basically not there? 😕
That’s a body that has the potential for consciousness (it has a brain, which is the requirement) but can't actually realize it because of the lack of senses. Aren't consciousness and the senses tied together?

I mean, he's basically telling you that everything in this world, whether it's dead or alive, receives stimuli. Basically saying you phrased it wrong. Even though you specifically asked:

"Can a body that has never received any kind of stimulus/has no senses be conscious?"

He knows what you meant, but instead of explaining the ambiguity, he's just nitpicking your mistake and pointing fingers at it.

The colors are all wrong. Consciousness isn't red, it's blue...

I don't know why you even bother stressing over this, it's just a theory at the end of the day. Take it or leave it, I guess.

William Gonzalez3 said:philosophy isn't useful because it doesn't apply practically to anything.
it has no purpose outside of itself.

That's wrong. It does have utility. I mean, if nothing had any use, then nothing else in this world would be useful either, so that concept just falls apart.

William Gonzalez3 said:it is its own purpose.
one of my favorite analogies is comparing philosophy to friendship. friendship is only real, deep, and sincere if it is an end in itself.

There's a difference between purpose and utility.

William Gonzalez3 said:if we become friends with someone just to use them, our friendship will be limited by that initial motive we used to start the relationship. also, it won't be sincere or deep, and it will only last as long as the benefit lasts—once the utility dies, that fake friendship dies too.

I guess you can still form a friendship without some ulterior motive to exploit someone, and you'll still end up getting something out of it anyway.

William Gonzalez3 said:of course people get something out of friendship, just like they do from philosophy, but that benefit shouldn't be the reason we enter into a relationship with a person or a philosophy, because then the connection is just artificial and forced.

Fine... But you can't seriously claim that nothing has a purpose beyond itself. Everything has endless uses, purposes, and impacts.

mistyfox812 said:I’m not really sure what you mean by "utility," so I guess I'll just ask you.
You can win an election using "common knowledge", but that isn't exactly a philosophical argument.

Who is this "everyone" who supposedly knows? It's probably just you, right? If you actually know, then maybe just say so. 🙂

Look, I definitely understand the context in which the word utility is used and what it actually represents.

You’re talking about utility like it’s some mystical, magical concept. If that's how you want to approach this, then I guess there's really no point in even talking. You could say that about literally anything—pretending you don't know what a thing is just because someone else hasn't explained it to you yet. If you genuinely don't know what utility means or how it functions in this context, then maybe just grab a dictionary and look it up.

mistyfox812 said:Just look at these questions, for instance:
Is there even such a thing as something non-material? Is anything actually material? What even is matter? Is it even a "thing"? And what’s the point of distinguishing between the material and the spiritual? Does that distinction even mean anything at all?

Those could be considered philosophical questions, I guess. Now, take your own question and apply it to them: are those questions about spiritual stuff or material stuff?

And another thing—is there any actual "use" to these questions?

Well, there's always a use, or there isn't. If you believe these questions are useless, then I guess your whole life, all your thoughts, and everything else is useless too. But if you think they're useful—if you've learned something new just by asking yourself these things—then there's value in every single thought and reflection.

mistyfox812 said:And maybe more importantly than all those questions: what even is "utility"? Is there any point to having utility?

I mean, everyone knows what utility is... If you take it to the extreme, you'll end up questioning things exactly like you just did, and then suddenly, utility doesn't exist. But what kind of thinking is that, really?

"Philosophy is the craving for knowledge that has absolutely zero practical application."

But what does "practical application" even mean here? Is utility and practical application the same thing? I guess I see a practical application (or utility) in every bit of thinking—whether it's purely philosophical or aimed at a specific goal—because that knowledge helps when you're discovering new things. It'll help me later when I'm thinking about something else, or when I'm writing a book, or a poem, or putting my thoughts on paper, or explaining something to someone else... there are tons of ways to use philosophical thinking.

So...

Whether philosophy is a pursuit of the most useless knowledge imaginable, or a search for knowledge with a purpose—I think you'll always find a practical way to use that knowledge eventually...

William Gonzalez3 said:knowledge that doesn't have any practical use whatsoever.

So, what is that supposed to mean, that philosophy just covers philosophizing about immaterial, spiritual stuff?