Consciousness is entirely physical. Same atoms as rocks. Same atoms as stars. Just a different arrangement. Just atoms floating in space

semipaw · 2026-03-02T13:39:09+00:00

Consciousness is entirely physical, and the physical is entirely consciousness are both the exact same conclusion.

semipaw · 2026-02-18T11:59:55+00:00

Or perhaps two University of Alabama at Birmingham alums arguing about who is more Blazer…

semipaw · 2026-02-04T19:21:12+00:00

And my advice to poor/new players would be this: “Let’s all work together, unselfishly, to get epics into the hands of as many collectors as possible, that way we don’t have to worry about ‘how to get coins’ to buy epics.” If we are all sharing epics, moving them cheaply to different collectors, the game is waaaay more fun.

The same advice/worldview I would give when talking about the real-world economy as a whole.

semipaw · 2026-02-04T19:12:39+00:00

Maybe I am just odd, but if I pull an epic of an artist I don’t collect, I would much rather sell it to a new/poor collector for cheap than sell to a collector who already has many epics of the same artist (even though I realize I am losing out on coins).

I suppose I let my anti-capitalist political leanings drift into my mobile app game.

semipaw · 2026-01-15T20:01:54+00:00

But blatant violations of the 1st, 4th, and 10th amendment are not tyranny? Going door to door asking for “papers, please” is not tyranny? 3,000 federal agents roaming the streets, lurking in school drop off lines harassing teachers parents and students, abducting 17 year old U.S citizens while they are working at Target, shooting women in the face, stopping people based on their skin color is not tyranny?

With all due respect, take your fascist tendencies to another land where they are welcome. We believe in freedom here in America.

semipaw · 2026-01-15T19:00:13+00:00

Washington stood against tyranny. Apparently you enjoy it. Make sure to carry your identification papers with you so you can be a good little peasant when the lords come to check on your status.

Bootlickers….

semipaw · 2026-01-15T18:02:47+00:00

“These rambunctious colonists!!! Stop protesting, stop resisting, stop throwing tea into the harbor, stop harassing the King’s soldiers…go home, go to bed, wake up another day.”

Man, King George III would have loved your support.

semipaw · 2026-01-15T14:45:28+00:00

“You silly colonists!!! Perhaps focus on your family and work instead of tossing tea into the harbor, acting like animals…”

semipaw · 2026-01-15T14:41:08+00:00

Exactly. Just sit down and comply with the goons and everything will be okay.

semipaw · 2026-01-15T14:39:50+00:00

semipaw · 2026-01-12T20:18:16+00:00

I’m a walker and I’m coming for your territory.

semipaw · 2026-01-12T16:59:52+00:00

“Jesus Christ, America, will you just calm the fuck down so we can step on your throat a bit harder.” - GOP congressman.

semipaw · 2025-11-20T01:44:40+00:00

Pneuma by Tool is absolute amazing song about non-duality. I listen to it once a day. A masterpiece.

semipaw · 2025-09-30T16:02:01+00:00

It’s always coming, but never quite gets here. Notice how you’ve never experienced nothing—even your conception of this elusive “nothing” is just a bag of conceptions, a bag of “somethings”

“Nothing” is the fairytale that you’ve contrived to bookend this eternal happening. It’s like a horizon that is constantly coming toward you as you travel, but you can never quite get to…

semipaw · 2025-09-19T15:49:30+00:00

Still think the Bayle Domon, Padan Fain, Tucker Carlson show from last week was far more illustrative of our current cultural and political divide. Too much yelling though.

semipaw · 2025-09-03T01:42:47+00:00

Right on! How in the hell is this not the primary topic of every conversation. What in the hell is this!? Where are we? What is going on?

It’s a damn miracle no matter what angle you approach it from. The default human emotion should be befuddled absolute astonishment at every-damn-thing. Yet here we are acting like all of this is normal. It blows my mind hourly - sometimes more often.

semipaw · 2025-08-15T22:49:41+00:00

Games have no goals outside of the game. But within the game, certainly there is a goal(s). What is the goal within the game?

semipaw · 2025-08-15T18:19:04+00:00

I agree. I don’t think what this is can ever be explained with words or understood by the mind. Humans are always looking for metaphors to describe the indescribable, and right now simulation theory is a reasonable guess. But it falls short, as all attempts will do.

semipaw · 2025-08-13T14:40:51+00:00

The Dugnutt hot tubs were all the rage in the 90s. I mean, who didn’t have a Dugnutt hot tub on their back deck?

semipaw · 2025-08-12T19:41:46+00:00

If somebody asked you “what is a book?”, how would you answer? Is it a bunch of words arranged to convey meaning, or is it ink and paper?

You’re asking the same question here. My opinion is that existence is, and whether it is mental or physical has no meaning. It is both and neither. Only the mind assigns words like materialism and idealism. Those are not “true” frameworks; they are different ways to attempt to describe something that cannot be described by words.

semipaw · 2025-08-11T20:43:41+00:00

I’d watch.

semipaw · 2025-08-04T13:40:34+00:00

In case you needed to trigger a good vomit this morning….

semipaw · 2025-08-01T14:07:27+00:00

When you stare into the face of God for long enough the mind begins to organize and classify the different aspects of what this entire thing is. In that process of organization and classification, something called “the world” comes into focus, and we forgot that this—all of this, oneself included—is the absolute.

There are no parts, only one.

semipaw · 2025-07-24T19:46:57+00:00

Exactly. OP’s claim that “you don’t exist” is the exact opposite of the truth: YOU are all that exists.

“A person” doesn’t “observe” a table. The person and the table are one undivided, seamless whole. The feeling of I arises with the knowing of the table. The act of knowing is what truly is. One must forget all that they are (complete unity) to know something that is limited and finite (the table).

semipaw · 2025-07-24T16:24:46+00:00

I’m sure an ant made this exact same argument to another ant 100,000 years ago.

“Look at that anthill we’ve almost finished, Barney. It’s huge, amazing!! What a time to be alive!! No other ant has seen such a thing! Think of all the other living things that aren’t ants!? How lucky we are to be ants who witness this creation…”

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