I believe you haven’t taken enough shrooms
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onlinepersona@programming.dev 7 months ago
That is what people sound like that have taken too many shrooms. Comes a bit too close to newage bullshit. “Life is the universe evolving to experience itself through you” and bullshit like that.
pufferfisherpowder@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Are you giving out a license for all your posts? Are you following up on the usage or is it more of a symbolic act?
TheOakTree@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Seems like the actions of a person who took too much acid and warped their own reality.
onlinepersona@programming.dev 7 months ago
I’ll probably determine if it’s symbolic when it turns up in some commercial AI.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 7 months ago
But it’s cool.
Just don’t go thinking it means anything other than nature is awesome.
onlinepersona@programming.dev 7 months ago
I just think there are better ways to say nature is awesome without adding mystics, new age stuff, or fantastical expressions to it. Then it starts turning into non-science.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 7 months ago
I like those better ways too, but I’m me and you’re you. I think the vulgarisation like in the op are good and useful as well. We’re not talking about Deepak Chopra here, just a little mycological poetry.
I would use the word “special” rather than mystical, but the awesomeness of reality can often feel mystical. I think it’s ok to play with that as long as you aren’t making any serious claims, like we should order our social structure around fungi deity or something
cheesymoonshadow@lemmings.world 7 months ago
I feel exactly the same way as how you described it. I think the quote from OP about the universe experiencing itself actually originated from Carl Sagan, who is as scientific and atheistic as you could ask for. It’s just a play on words.
And then you have the likes of Deepak Chopra, who is the most disingenuous woowoo-talking charlatan in existence. If he said something like that, he would mean it literally.
danielbln@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You sound like a sour lemon. I’d rather hang out with a hippie that thinks the universe is conscious than someone who slaps a paper tiger license to their low originality threshold posts. Just sayin.
onlinepersona@programming.dev 7 months ago
Sour lemons are tasty, dunno what your problem is 🤷 I wouldn’t want to hang out with some rando called “balloon” from the internet either. Just sayin.
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Retrograde@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You have to be a troll, right?..right?
onlinepersona@programming.dev 7 months ago
If someone insulted you, what kind of response would you give (if any)?
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