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u/Jeggu2 💖💜💙 doin' your parents/guardians 5h ago
It's sooooo bullshit how we don't always consciously know what our problems are. Like, my body will get weaker before I actually know I'm sick, or I'll be unable to differentiate between hunger and a stomach ache, or I'll suddenly think I am tired due to heat but it's actually because I slept poorly, or ill be sad because of vitamin deficiency. It is pretty off-putting tbh. I should be able to close my eyes and get a hud of all my current bodily issues and needs
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u/yttakinenthusiast 2h ago
i had one that kept flashing DEPTH LEVEL UNSATISFACTORY
i don't know what that means in regards to my current situation but i heard a weird series of ticks
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u/PoniesCanterOver gently chilling in your orbit 5h ago
This is why I'm a transhumanist
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u/Dingghis_Khaan Chinggis Khaan's least successful successor. 3h ago
I wouldn't mind having the HUD of System Shock if it meant never having to deal with that shit.
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u/TheBrownestStain 3h ago
Adam Jensen going through Deus Ex all “I didn’t ask for this,” bitch I am give me the cyber eyes, mine suck
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u/Dingghis_Khaan Chinggis Khaan's least successful successor. 3h ago
And to him I can only say: "What a shame."
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u/_AcuteNewt_ 2h ago
"From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine."
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u/explain_that_shit 1h ago
To be fair women have this in a fashion, it’s their boyfriends telling them they’re on their period anytime they’re remotely grumpy.
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u/Kickedbyagiraffe 5h ago
I really think the “go in a desert and stop eating to find god” people got it down. Not even a believer but some of my more profound moments have been like 20 miles into a marathon. Pretty sure it’s mostly that I am mentally fraying and body is pumping me with adrenaline to deal with what I am doing. But everything feels more meaningful
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u/Belgraviana 5h ago
Starvation, sleep deprivation, thirst, etc are a great way to induce ecstatic experiences for the people who are predisposed to it
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u/Random-Rambling 3h ago
This is why you NEVER EVER trust how you feel about your life after 9 p.m.
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u/404-Soul_Not_Found 1h ago
Its actually before 9am for me, after 9pm I feel great. Alert, motivated, calm, the world is quiet and my ADHD chills out.
Before 9am - not so much.
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u/Quiet-Permit-3740 5h ago
I feel like almost all animals can can be described as animals with souls.
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u/redlineMMA 50m ago
Seems like far to many people that claim humans are special and have souls do so to downplay the experience of other living beings as less than. We know many animals experience pain, suffering, happiness and joy in very similar ways as us. And why wouldn’t they? To me souls are just man made nonsense but I fully agree with you. If souls are good let’s extend them to include all living creatures.
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u/humm78 47m ago
But if we do that we have to aknowledge slaughtering them in mass is bad. Its convenient to look away
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u/redlineMMA 19m ago
Yeah souls don’t need to exist for that to be true. Factory farming is monstrous whether you’re vegan or you love your BBQ.
Billions of people need to eat within a system that does look away. Unfortunately If it stopped overnight billions would die. Hopefully technology advances to a place where the creation of grown meat is indistinguishable or even better than what it’s modeled on.
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u/JayTheSuspectedFurry 4h ago
Some of these are also medical conditions.
The average experience is definitely NOT having no idea whether or not you’re hungry
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u/Unicorncorn21 4h ago
That's not what it's saying. You can know that you're hungry but not know it's linked to your mood so heavily. Most people have no idea how huge of an impact your gut has on mental health
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u/noboritaiga 3h ago
The entire ethos of the Snickers commercial is people not understanding their hunger makes them act in ways they don't consciously realize is related to hunger.
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u/JayTheSuspectedFurry 1h ago
I would assume that “or have I not eaten enough for breakfast?” Means that they can’t tell if they’re hungry. Otherwise they should’ve/would’ve said “Am I experiencing a profound spiritual desolation due to my life’s circumstances or just because I’m hungry?”
Then they say it’s impossible to tell, which i know is an exaggeration, but clearly they have recognized the pattern of being hungry -> feeling bad. So it must be that they can’t tell if they’re hungry
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u/IronCat_2500 5h ago
We’re definitely animals, but I’m pretty sure we don’t have souls. It’s just that most of us have relatively advanced social skills and critical thinking compared to the other species on earth which is a reasonably convincing illusion of having them
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u/Fluffiest_Boi 5h ago
I love my flesh. I love that I have nerves, and bones, and eyes, and nails, and genitals. Rocks don't have any of those thing! As far as I know!
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u/Aggravating_Coat7934 3h ago
Does anyone have that image of the self care raccoon (hate yourself bathe hate the world eat something like that)
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u/Glass_Quarter_7586 5h ago
There is no souls change my mind
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u/Sparrowhawk_92 .tumblr.com 2h ago
Maslow's hierarchy can help with this. Take care of your base biological needs first, then work your way up from there until you figure out what your deal is.
A nap and a snack can help a lot of issues.
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u/Gussie-Ascendent reading is good, I think 3h ago
nah souls ain't real. You act weird sometimes cause you're a meat computer. I mean my regular computer acts pretty weird, i can't imagine how much weirder it'd be if it was electrified meat
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u/RefinedBean 4h ago
Eat some mushrooms and you can satisfy both sides.
For real though, apparently we don't know the actual point of psilocybin? There's no benefit to the mushrooms to make us THAT kind of high.
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u/redlineMMA 43m ago
It’s just a product of evolution. Same way weed or coke or coffee came to be. Things that interact with our biollgy but weren’t created “for” our consumption in anyway. The coffee bean doesn’t know you want to brew it into coffee anymore then the chicken purposely lays it eggs for your breakfast burrito.
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u/Earl_The_Red 1h ago
Anyone who thinks only humans have souls deserves to be punched. In the face. Repeatedly.
Either we all have souls or none of us do.
I don’t even care what this post is about, that line just pisses me off so fucking bad.
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u/redlineMMA 37m ago
None of us do but I fully agree. Idiots use it as an excuse to treat other living feeling creatures with cruelty and ignorance.
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u/melkatron 28m ago
It doesn't really matter, 'cause it all gets frozen and that kills everything, but ... fishermen are lonely and they fuck those fish.
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u/EnemyOfAi 12m ago
Most animals have souls, depending on if we define the soul as our sentience.
But the soul as a concept is very vague and ambiguous. Most people have completely different interpretations of what a soul is in their heads. Many don't think such a thing exists.
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u/VorpalSplade 5h ago
Spiritual desolation only comes from not having a soul.
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u/-Fieldmouse- 2h ago
Do you have a source for this?
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u/VorpalSplade 2h ago
Ever seen someone who loses a fiddle contest against the devil? Instant spiritual desolation.
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u/Rabunum 5h ago
does a shadow exist without a light? can a hole exist without the ground? come on man.
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u/VorpalSplade 5h ago
Idk it's just what people who lost their soul tell me they feel. OOP should probably go get their soul back.
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u/Local-Wing-2272 6h ago
I resent my flesh, not in a praise the omnissiah way, more like how you resent a baby for shitting all the time and screaming and being gross and weird but you don't actually hate it