Wise Fool Posted May 20, 2015 Author Share Posted May 20, 2015 Meaning it would probably try to answer tautological conundrums with expository arguments. Yeah. Let's make fun of the cigar, shame it, shun it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Arryn Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Y'all complete me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weeping Sore Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Listening to a bunch of Cure and Smashing Pumpkins, are we? Siddhartha Gautama, actually. Emptiness is also translated as "spaciousness" or "voidness" and represents a sort of all-pervading potentiality of being and not-being. Kind of like the Tao. The idea is everything we percieve has only conditional reality, temporary and interdependent on other conditional realities whereas the fundamental reality is this emptiness or spaciousness.* * just like jefrey with one "f", btw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Arryn Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Siddhartha Gautama, actually. Emptiness is also translated as "spaciousness" or "voidness" and represents a sort of all-pervading potentiality of being and not-being. Kind of like the Tao. The idea is everything we percieve has only conditional reality, temporary and interdependent on other conditional realities whereas the fundamental reality is this emptiness or spaciousness.* * just like jefrey with one "f", btw.Yeah, man, turn that frown upside down! Like, when Plato was allegorising caves, was that an anachronistic interpretation of a prophetic vision of 20+th century humanity spending it's time inside watching tv? Just spitballing into conditional reality here, but I like the fit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wise Fool Posted May 20, 2015 Author Share Posted May 20, 2015 Caves and TV can be allegories of each other. TV probably makes more sense now, because who's ever been to a cave? Like I've been to one, once. Maybe a couple. Not really much of my experience. Yet TV is something we watch even when we're not watching. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sologdin Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 caves don't have tv. caves have blind degenerate anthropophagoi who lay in wait for supermodel spelunkers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wise Fool Posted May 20, 2015 Author Share Posted May 20, 2015 No seriously guys I am really like super duper high. caves don't have tv. caves have blind degenerate anthropophagoi who lay in wait for supermodel spelunkers.Ooh, I heard about that movie. Awful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horza Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 caves don't have tv. caves have blind degenerate anthropophagoi who lay in wait for supermodel spelunkers. or, if you're really unlucky, Plato Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A True Kaniggit Posted May 21, 2015 Share Posted May 21, 2015 Sgt. Barnes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramsay Gimp Posted May 21, 2015 Share Posted May 21, 2015 caves don't have tv. caves have blind degenerate anthropophagoi who lay in wait for supermodel spelunkers.That movie really doesn't get enough love. One of the best horrors of last decade IMO, largely because of the questions about the "reality" of the story. Are there actually subhuman monsters down there, or is the heroine just hunting and killing her friends in a fit of grief-induced madness? Or as Hillary Clinton would say, "at this point what difference would it make?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wise Fool Posted May 21, 2015 Author Share Posted May 21, 2015 I love The Descent. Too bad they had to make a sequel because money. Money always manages to fuck things up somehow. That's why we're all fans of consenting sex between adults but we, at best, merely tolerate it when its done for money. It's the money that dirties things, not the sex. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramsay Gimp Posted May 21, 2015 Share Posted May 21, 2015 That's why we're all fans of consenting sex between adults but we, at best, merely tolerate it when its done for money. It's the money that dirties things, not the sex. Hey I still enjoy it when it's done for money :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wise Fool Posted May 21, 2015 Author Share Posted May 21, 2015 Hey I still enjoy it when it's done for money :P How else you gonna get it? Ha ha ha ha ha! No but seriously, loved The Descent, loved the fake-out ending and what it implied about the nature of [the protagonist's] consciousness and [fictitious] reality. Because these things can represent consciousness and reality in general, and that's real art right there baby. Music was cool too. Plus, I still fondly remember that one jump scare (you know the one I mean) as an example of a 'legitimate' jump scare rather than the 'cheap' use we see in typical horror from Hollywood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazydog7 Posted May 21, 2015 Share Posted May 21, 2015 i don't know what it is but I'm pretty sure its nothing your going to see on telivison. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tears of Lys Posted May 21, 2015 Share Posted May 21, 2015 How else you gonna get it? Ha ha ha ha ha! No but seriously, loved The Descent, loved the fake-out ending and what it implied about the nature of [the protagonist's] consciousness and [fictitious] reality. Because these things can represent consciousness and reality in general, and that's real art right there baby. Music was cool too. Plus, I still fondly remember that one jump scare (you know the one I mean) as an example of a 'legitimate' jump scare rather than the 'cheap' use we see in typical horror from Hollywood. funny you should bring up The Descent. I just got into an argument with my sister about what happened in the end. Turns out she had seen the shitty US version of the ending and I had seen the far superior ending. I set her straight. :smoking: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Scot A Ellison Posted May 21, 2015 Share Posted May 21, 2015 WF, ToL,"The Descent" sounds like "An Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sci-2 Posted May 21, 2015 Share Posted May 21, 2015 reality is what we attempt to capture via abstraction, like when we find regularities and then extrapolate them into natural "laws" that Nature is supposedly obligated to follow. but of course you can ask, "where are the laws?", "what keeps them from changing?", and so on. All matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration – that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather. ce n'est pas une pipe. i just want you to know - you are winning this thread, hands down style. :bowdown: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
all swedes are racist Posted May 21, 2015 Share Posted May 21, 2015 Yeah, Larry's my reality agent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyenon15 Posted May 21, 2015 Share Posted May 21, 2015 It's not reality until it forces me to do something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weeping Sore Posted May 21, 2015 Share Posted May 21, 2015 Yeah, Larry's my reality agent He's a realitor? @larry - Which realities are in my price range? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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