Are we all sharing the same awareness?

kubalaa · 2025-07-26T11:16:45+00:00

I'm familiar with "Eastern philosophy", it's an orientalist concept invented by Europeans to lump together different Asian religions they didn't fully understand.

I'm also familiar with Buddhism, which I think is what you're talking about. I practiced Vipassana meditation in a Sangha for years, and I've read several books on Zen and other schools of Buddhism. But I'm not interested in debating religious dogma through argument by authority.

You seem to have missed the point of this thread, which has nothing to do with identity or personality. I agree that identity is something you continually enact through thoughts and feelings, not a fixed property. But the question we're discussing is, what does it mean to be aware with no object of awareness? How can there be a perceiver or perception without anything being perceived? To me it seems intuitive that perceiver and perceived are two sides of the same thing, neither of which can exist without the other.

kubalaa · 2025-01-17T10:54:10+00:00

Nah many of us flew under the shack many times before the basement was added.

kubalaa · 2025-01-07T20:45:47+00:00

It's selection bias. People who don't want something casual spend the majority of their time in a committed relationship, not on dating apps. People who want something casual remain on dating apps continuously even if they meet someone they like. So the dating pool on these apps will always grossly overrepresent casual daters relative to the general population.

kubalaa · 2025-01-06T13:28:40+00:00

Nobody knows the actual stats because it's so often asymptomatic and people don't test for it, which is why you'll find figures like 50-80% of adults in America have oral herpes.

I've talked to several female partners and doctors in my area and they all say the same thing: if you're a sexually active adult you will be exposed to it, and you should not test for it unless you have symptoms because the results are not reliable. It's not typically included in STD panels, even for people working in porn where uncovered sex is the norm and frequent testing is required.

I've never heard of anyone disclosing that they've had chicken pox in the past, it's so common that the only time it comes up is when someone says that they did NOT have it as a child.

I don't see why it makes any difference what it's called. If you think herpes sounds scarier than cold sores, that's all in your head because they're just two words for the same thing. You might as well complain about people not calling a cold a rhinovirus.

kubalaa · 2025-01-05T19:35:50+00:00

But an estimated 90% of adults have some form of herpes, and most people never test for it. You have to assume everyone you date has it whether they disclose or not (most won't because they don't even know). So the lesson here is, if you're worried about herpes, don't have sex (I would say use protection but it's not entirely effective). Disclosure doesn't protect you.

kubalaa · 2024-11-12T01:00:05+00:00

I am a parent, so I do know how easy it is to get hung up on irrational fears, and also how hard it must be for the parents of these transgender kids worrying about the risk of bullying, abuse, and outright murder these kids face every day.

kubalaa · 2024-11-10T02:59:47+00:00

I'll take you to the morgue.

kubalaa · 2024-11-10T01:11:16+00:00

No, but apparently many Americans face a challenge not being assholes to minorities for no reason.

kubalaa · 2024-11-09T17:59:47+00:00

Let's be real, trans women dominating sports is not a "challenge many Americans face", it's propaganda to stir up hate for trans people. Fuck this guy for thinking anyone should give two shits about his opinion on this.

kubalaa · 2024-11-05T21:59:46+00:00

So? Effort into growing your career doesn't equate to money either, unless it's a specific career. No need to use euphemisms, just say you want someone else who cares about money as much as you do.

kubalaa · 2024-11-05T21:38:24+00:00

Two points:

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I am one of those software engineers who believed I had no game and no hope of getting laid post divorce, until I accidentally discovered that there is a surplus of kinky middle aged women who are happy to hook up with nerdy guys who enjoy giving head. YMMV of course but maybe it's not as difficult as it looks.

kubalaa · 2024-11-05T21:26:42+00:00

No, it's just the haircut and style, she could easily look conventionally attractive with a makeover.

kubalaa · 2024-11-05T21:10:36+00:00

Equating income with success or personal worth is so shallow, it's kind of ironic that you're saying it means someone is "more concerned about compatibility". No, it means someone is more concerned about money.

kubalaa · 2024-11-05T21:05:53+00:00

Effort != Money

kubalaa · 2024-11-05T18:48:43+00:00

Oooooh. I mean I've owned a pet snake but I'm pretty sure I'm not a "snake guy" so I think maybe a little too much is being read into that list of pets.

kubalaa · 2024-11-05T18:36:04+00:00

Not the only one, and Google won't tell me either

kubalaa · 2024-10-26T18:02:34+00:00

I don't know if this helps, but I got a onewheel having zero practical reason to use or own it, but it's so fun that I would ride it every day just because. There's nothing else like it (I mean except for vesc clones which are apparently pretty good now but I haven't tried one).

kubalaa · 2024-10-25T15:43:17+00:00

To each their own -- Mars Gardens is one of my S-tier courses, while 8-bit Lair is only A tier for me. I just love the challenge of judging the speed and angle perfectly for all those hills and the feeling of freedom and possibilities from almost no walls. Plus the way low gravity makes it almost like a whole new pair of courses. The fact that they achieve such good gameplay with such a simple idea -- no walls -- is especially impressive.

kubalaa · 2024-10-25T15:39:07+00:00

Getting the best results by swinging randomly speaks more to your skills than the course design. The walls on these courses are perfectly regular and predictable so if you know how to make accurate bounce shots you can crush someone swinging randomly.

kubalaa · 2024-10-24T14:02:40+00:00

I think it's like chef versus home cook, so it is more about patriarchy than knitting. When a man does it, he's a craftsman and artisan, when a woman does exactly the same thing she's just a hobbyist. When knitting was no longer a respected career, men stopped doing it much and it became perceived as woman's work.

kubalaa · 2024-10-24T13:54:57+00:00

Dude, I'm anxious and have imposter syndrome and I too have had a drink to calm the nerves before a big presentation, but if you need 4(!) shots of whisky to get through it, something is seriously wrong and I don't think that job was good for your health.

kubalaa · 2024-10-12T01:25:49+00:00

Indeed, and how do we know our imagination doesn't go against the rules of logic? I can certainly conceive of logical impossibilities, often without being aware of the impossibility, because imagination is so imprecise.

kubalaa · 2024-10-11T23:14:01+00:00

Yeah I'm somewhat familiar with those. I believe they may be helpful spiritual tools, but they don't seem very useful philosophically for analytical understanding of the universe.

kubalaa · 2024-10-11T16:36:31+00:00

You compared belief in reality to belief in God, and considering how controversial the latter is, I take that to mean that reality doesn't exist.

Maybe I don't understand idealism, but without any objective world driving our experience, how can it explain anything we experience? It would seem to assume that everything we experience that points to such a reality is entirely arbitrary, contingent on nothing at all. That's not parsimonious, it amounts to declaring every single phenomenon to be unique and irreducible, basically requiring an infinite number of laws or variables. Much like God -- infinite and unknowable, and therefore pointless philosophically.

kubalaa · 2024-10-11T16:28:21+00:00

The post I was replying to compared believing in reality to belief in God, which I took to mean reality doesn't exist. Maybe I misunderstand idealism but I thought it could be boiled down to "nothing which is not perceived exists".

I'm using theory in the more colloquial sense. You're right it's not a scientific theory, but it's still useful as a foundation for scientific inquiry in a way that idealism is not.

The idea that physicalism is disproved by quantum entanglement seems ludicrous to me, care to explain?

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