• roadrunner321 (45)in #anxiety • 8 years ago

  Anxiety is not my master. It is a companion, and I can make it quiet.

  I enjoy tea. I feel the buoying of my mood from the caffeine and a slight tingle in my mind, like my thoughts are filled with potential. The thoughts are still under control…

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• roadrunner321 (45)in #existential • 8 years ago

  Would you mind if you were a copy of yourself? - A Thought Experiment

  A person is placed under general anesthesia and - using some form of unknown phlebotenum - an exact replica is made. The replica has all of the original’s memories, personality…

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• roadrunner321 (45)in #philosophy • 9 years ago

  The price of life. - Philosophical Sink

  At the moment, a person's occupation is a means to survive, through  the acquisition of money which is used to pay for sustenance, a place to  live, and peripheral desires.  The…

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• roadrunner321 (45)in #transhumanism • 9 years ago

  I, Thought. - Philosophical Sink

  If the brain is simply the substrate for our form of sentient information, then it stands to reason that any other substrate of sufficient complexity may give rise to sentience.…

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• roadrunner321 (45)in #philosophy • 9 years ago

  I want to want nothing. - Philosophical Sink

  If you don’t know what you want, then you have reached the state of desirelessness. –Alan Watts If you can get to this state, it’s difficult to exist for any length of time…

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• roadrunner321 (45)in #random • 9 years ago

  We are the fortunate few who exist. And the waves keep lapping at the shore... - Philosophical Sink

  In a universe tending towards disorder, we find ourselves in the unique position of being alive; self-replicating, ordered entities who maintain the order of our bodies and minds…

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