/alt/ - Anomalous

>>42
Maybe if you believe in reincarnation.

>>43
Ego suicide

Psychedelics offer too much of a subjective experience of insight or illumination, that I don't believe it can offer any objective truth that is applicable outside of the individual's experience. If you took various revelations people have had while tripping, and compared them, I can assure you that all of it would be contradictory in a larger cosmology, or moral framework, which makes any sort of meaning derived from those experiences completely individualistic. Maybe people come to conclusions which benefit them, maybe they don't, it really is so varied that anything could have any sort of significance, or none at all, depending on the person. I do think psychedelics engage a person's subconscious, and it can be potentially useful for looking into a person's experiences from a psychoanalytic perspective, but that's really it.

>>45
Have you taken psychedelics yourself?

>>45
there are very few objective truths. everything relies on your perception and cognition, and you have to put trust in even the most basic of things. i think sometimes you can be more right than others, but there is absolutely no ultimate truth. none that we will ever find, anyway.
i believe we are all nodes in a kind of network of knowledge. we each interpret things in our individual ways but that builds into a compilation of that experience that we share with one another. from that, we each sift through and interpret it on our own accord, and the cycle continues.
i don't think i would personally care for psychedelics, but there still might be something to gain from them indirectly.

Neat share, anon! I sure like the artwork, it reminds me a lot of armorgames.com for some reason (I can't think of any game in particular). The pictures for "Stab" and "Rat Poison" are especially slick.

>>90
I dont think planet earth has enough resources for that

>>87
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>>89
I tip my fedora and wish you a nice day too!
>>90
>see 64
It just seemed so dumb to me in that context to compare a potential conflict involving Poland to a proxy war in a third world country and brush off Ukraine as irrelevant, I felt like my reaction was justified. I try to be less harsh next time.

Anyway, some interesting news:
Croatian volunteers have formed a batallion to protect the people from Covid tyranny and globalist interests:
https://www.jutarnji.hr/video/news/presuceni-mars-1-dragovoljacke-bojne-stupali-od-tomislavca-do-trga-i-vikali-u-boj-u-boj-15123787
Video of their march during the WorldWide Demonstration 5.0:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2BwXIYOIxA
President of Croatia called out Austria for their mandatory vaccine policies and other extreme covid measures, comparing them to fascism. Austrian Ministry of Foreign affairs invited a Croatian ambassador to give an explanation.
https://rs.n1info.com/region/zbog-izjava-milanovica-oko-austrijskih-kovid-mera-ambasador-pozvan-na-razgovor/
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>>92
>I try to be less harsh next time.

why were you being harsh in the first place retard?

>I felt like my reaction was justified
nobody cares about what you feel its an anonymous place you want to protect your ego go to a forum

nobody its gonna take anything you say seriously anymore please leave the thread and let the high emotional iq anons debate

>>86
Lmao

>>86

Congratulations 2+ for your body count i guess

I've got a theory, you see, a theory about magic and miracles. That's right. If magic is all we've ever know then it's easy to miss what really goes on. But I've seen miracles in every way, and I see miracles everyday.

>>204
what miracles have you seen?

>>205
I'm sorry anon those are the lyrics to this masterpiece

>>206

my ninja

>>273
bro ur a chaddddd!! congratssssss bro

>>281
I just wish they would resurrect 0ch instead of shitposting on the fedi.

>>282
neo-postpunk its real.

from incelcore/bedroompunk to positive nihilism to social collapse and culture change paired with increasing surreal applications of tech

its like 79 all over again

>How ever as i reach my 20s
>I have developed into a positive nihilism
>Some of my friends started calling this philosophy as being Chadpilled.
Your heart's going in the right cardinal direction at least.

i think cyberpunk in terms of that whole "cyberphilosophy" definitely still has way more to explore. the aesthetic of cyberpunk is dead and gone though. well, "undead" is a better term. i always hated the shit out of that shallow aesthetic sheen built with no real intention or criticism or meaning underneath it, and to see people romanticize and embrace it like it was ever a positive is frankly disgusting. however, i always interpret the real message of "cyberpunk" as an idea as follows: you can make the most of what you've got, no matter how oppressive. there's always a way in, there's always an underground, a means to communicate, a community to hang around.

>>52
bro ur a chaddddd!! congratssssss bro

>>60
I just wish they would resurrect 0ch instead of shitposting on the fedi.

>>61
neo-postpunk its real.

from incelcore/bedroompunk to positive nihilism to social collapse and culture change paired with increasing surreal applications of tech

its like 79 all over again

>How ever as i reach my 20s
>I have developed into a positive nihilism
>Some of my friends started calling this philosophy as being Chadpilled.
Your heart's going in the right cardinal direction at least.

i think cyberpunk in terms of that whole "cyberphilosophy" definitely still has way more to explore. the aesthetic of cyberpunk is dead and gone though. well, "undead" is a better term. i always hated the shit out of that shallow aesthetic sheen built with no real intention or criticism or meaning underneath it, and to see people romanticize and embrace it like it was ever a positive is frankly disgusting. however, i always interpret the real message of "cyberpunk" as an idea as follows: you can make the most of what you've got, no matter how oppressive. there's always a way in, there's always an underground, a means to communicate, a community to hang around.

>>130
>>131

I'll briefly give you my main thoughts on what I thought when I first read The Apocalypse of John when I had only read the New Testament, and then again when I read it a year later after having read The Old Testament and some Apocrypha.

On my first reading of it, I was very stunned by the ingenuity and bizarreness of not just the symbolism, but the manner is which the symbolism was presented. Symbolism was nothing new to me, of course, but the imagery and method of conveying the imagery was very disorienting.

For example, I found Revelation 13:3 to be a particularly striking moment. Revelation 13:1-2: "The dragon stood on the shore of the sea. And I saw a beast coming out of the sea. It had ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on its horns, and on each head a blasphemous name. 2 The beast I saw resembled a leopard, but had feet like those of a bear and a mouth like that of a lion. The dragon gave the beast his power and his throne and great authority." This is already a Surreal enough scene, so heavily steeped in obscure metaphor that to imagine it literally is like a fevered dream, but then 13:3 reads: " One of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound, but the fatal wound had been healed. The whole world was filled with wonder and followed the beast."

What does this mean? It's so utterly bizarre and specific. It's no doubt a very pointed metaphor by the author, but it in and of itself is so strange. A monster raises itself from the sea? Okay. Nothing too weird, even if it's a weird monster, but then there's such an unexplained little detail like that? That really takes it to another level for me.

>>132

I had frequently heard Revelation described as "an acid trip" to me beforehand, but when I finally read it for the first time in a single sitting, I really felt like I was on something. This was my reading while I was still largely ignorant of the Old Testament and really Jewish religion to start with. I knew only what was contained in the New Testament and random things I had picked up culturally like Moses and the Red Sea.

About a year after that, I finally read the whole Old Testament, which was not quick. It was at that point that I was exposed to the apocalyptic books of the Torah that directly inspired and informed Revelation. When you only have the New Testament, the only apocalyptic book is Revelation. Every other book is either an epistle or a history. But the Old Testament has an exceedingly robust amount of differing genres and no lack of apocalyptic visions, both metaphorical and literal. Ezekiel, Isaiah, and especially Daniel are of the same genre as Revelation. And of course, the writer of Revelation was intimately familiar with these books, and other apocalyptic books like in the minor prophets.

So, when I read these books, I started to actually understand the library of metaphors and symbolism that served as the vocabulary for John, or however you would like to call the actual author of Revelation. Daniel in particular helped because of very specific metaphors. It also helped because it's a apocalypse that still hasn't happened or perhaps would be better said to be ongoing, just like Revelation.

>>133
After reading these books - all in the KVJ translation - about a year later, I re-read the New Testament with a full knowledge of the Old Testament. I had also by this time read the complete works of Josephus to get a rounder overall view of both Jewish antiquity and the time of Christ. This time, I read Richmond Lattimore's translation. Of course at once I better understood Christ's teachings because now I truly understood the Old Covenant and David and etc.

When it came time to re-read Revelation, again in one sitting, I was impressed by the fact that this time I wasn't impressed. My first time, my mind was completely blown - not strictly in a religious capacity, but in the totality of effect of the artistic skill behind the writing. But on my second go through, I had a much greater understanding of what I was actually reading and many of the metaphors and images didn't seem so completely foreign to me anymore.

I'm not going to say that I understand huge sections of Revelation. Nobody does. You mentioned the Four Horsemen in your post. Look, for example, at the huge controversy about the identity of just the first Horsemen. It is a complicated book to say the least. I personally do not hold the various apocalypses as having much legitimate theological value. I consider them largely as a form of catharsis for oppressed peoples. You know, there are the types that are looking forward to the Judgement less for being saved and more that the sinners will be punished. But that's just my own view on the genre of apocalyptic literature.

Anyways, I kind of rambled on for a bit, but I just thought I would share that, given my two contrasting readings of the Apocalypse of John.

Frederick Engels wrote a polemic on the book of revelation in 1883, that might interest you.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/religion/book-revelations.htm
>>132
>Irenaeus, in the second century, knew still that by the head which was wounded and healed, the Emperor Nero was meant. He had been the first great persecutor of the Christians. At his death a rumour spread, especially through Achaia and Asia, that he was not dead, but only wounded, and that he would one day reappear and spread terror throughout the world (Tacitus, Ann. VI, 22).

>>122
schizophrenic.

this is the most embarrassing OP ever posted to this site, go back home to lainchan and systemspace

Why are people so enamoured with SEL? It's a good anime but some people treat it as if it was the second coming of Christ.

>>252
what

>>254
I'm literally autisticly obsessed with SEL but I don't do this kind of shit.