Milky Jade

Oh, yeah, that's true. For some reason or other I thought "non-conceivable", which is definitely impossible. Well, Dear, I didn't misinterpret or contemplate your reasons for being here. Since your first post I accepted them as valid and genuine, anyway. I really was more like.. talking -at- you, so sorry for the confusion.. You have any preferences?

Everybody. There is no one that shall go unhugged or unbrohooved. You will receive my love. All the love.

Is that possible, though? well hmmmm, I think that if you're an impartial observer, then shouldn't your goal be naturally different from anyone that engages in the topic actively? Either way, I think I'm more or less out of things to add. It's there for anyone to read. If anything, I should be the one to withdraw and phase in/out if perchance something piques my curiosity. Until that time, feel free to join me in a cup of tea!

I'll just repose my trust in you that you don't really think people are prepared with reliable and rigid information before they wade into the tulpa swamp. I'm actually not all too interested in possible effects and risks. I just think that the proposition is false, end of story. I laid out my reasons why. If anyone really burns to nitpick me about what manner of hallucination classifies as tulpa and which does not, I'll be elated to refer them to what I said a few posts back: It makes no difference. Neither qualitatively nor pertinent to this discussion. If I had any concern to dole out, it would first and foremost be to the original state of mind of the average tulpa devotee. Clearly they should be able to sort it out on their own, but generally, they jump on it like a bitch in heat. Otherwise, no, I'm not really concerned about what people do to further obstruct their psyche. At that point, you can only add insult to injury, anyway. Twist the knife, if you would rather me say.

No verbal crime shall ever go unpunished under my watch! I wish I could keep up a lofty attitude 24/7, but I can get feisty if someone's trying to spread their toxic garbage (read: opinions). I've already thought of most of the, regrettably, obvious replies I had coming for me. Most of them are actually covered by the youtube link I posted a little further north, so no hard feelings, right? IDK, why should you run risk of mental disorders or permanent damage by means of additional hallucination if you already have daily hallucinations you can tinker safely with? I'm actually appalled that this tulpa business is dealt with with this matter-of-factly, simpering attitude. It's like people are dying for their waifus or whatever and lose their sense of properness and psychological welfare. Yeah, it's a textbook case of profligacy. I couldn't agree more.

Maybe I too should apologize, for derailing the thread, but after all these years, I sort of just.. go along with it.. But.. what if no one in their right mind actually uttered a platitude of that echelon? I wondered: Is there any sense in arguing that there is a difference between a genuine self-imposed hallucination and the false belief that any such hallucination came into operation? But: That shouldn't be the question. The fact remains that it should be disincentivized if you put any stock in a sober mind. If you really are that hurting for pony interaction, learn how to have lucid dreams. But for the life of yourself, don't wade through these murky, uncertain waters.

Actually, if this not about "learning the age in which you will die" but "learning the way in which you will die", I would want to know just so I could once and for all verify or disprove determinism.

I can't prove you didn't Therefore you looked it up

Bottom line, the argument goes "a proposition is true because my adversary fails to produce evidence to the contrary" Also called 'appeal to ignorance'

@@Nine, An.. argument from ignorance? Is it really that sacred these days? I should be able to come up with a host of other informal fallacies on which people (are willing to) base their entire reasoning. Needless to say, they're all sacrosanct, too. Demons to some, angels to others..

I plan to kick the bucket before my 40ies, so sure, why not

Yeah, I am absolutely convinced that not listening to mad ramblings and internally inconsistent asspulls which amount to exactly nothing is not tantamount to being close-minded. Listen to yourself talk. Do you want to know what I think? I think that accusing people of being close-minded when they don't approve of your case is a concession of bumbling on your part. If you know an idea to be true, there should be no reason why you can't make your case palatable. Ideas ought to be shared, if you are invested in furthering and proliferating them. That is why I try to make myself as clear as I can. If they still don't understand or simply disagree - fine, there's more intelligent potential beneficiaries. Thus far I've not heard a compelling counter-case, and so I've actually stopped hoping for it. Now what about ideas and truth? What good is your idea if you cannot prove it to me? Scores of ideas are internally self-consistent, but unless you can show me somehow that they have a basis or use in reality, you're frittering your and everyone's time.

Electric guitar (7 years short 2 months), acoustic (3 years), viola (1 year) non-string instruments: clarinet (2 years), piano (7 years) All besides the guitar I just practised for the absurdity of it. My family tried to get into music several times in the past, giving up and leaving behind their instruments, and so I could take them and out-perform them in a couple days. Given the choice at gunpoint, I would like to master the viola above all. A violin is fine, too.

@@Nine, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmHDiJHxEic#t=0m59s I sort of expected to get buffetted with upset and petulant posts just by saying I think people who are tulpaforcing are merely labouring under the delusion that it works. I'm willing to give my tongue for that, because I'm merely stating my opinion and I'm fully aware that nothing I dare say could ever inflect their genuine certainty, and so I have nothing to lose. They had no expectations that could be disappointed - nor satisfied, but satisfaction is actually the default they (choose to) slip into. I'm willing to bet all my money that everyone claiming to successfully having created a tulpa is completely different from the next, for that reason. I only asked you your reasons for thinking.. that way. It's like you're trying to combine collectivism, solipsism and nihilism all into one. It's just bound to fail, and I personally don't see how it will help people open their minds. That is why I'm asking you. I resent the assertion that merely because I'm not liable to buying into a load of waffle I am close-minded and unable to listen to a compelling case.

I can certainly imagine what it must be to constantly contradict yourself "imagining the universe into existence" Well I don't know If you are saying that existence is subject unto our minds, what are our minds subject unto? Realize that reality is the standard to that which exists. What do you hope to observe? You want to observe existence. For you to observe existence, it must exist, and you must be part of it. It is crucial for you to recognize that existence exists independent of you or me. Anyway, I think that whole thread of nonsense is resting on this statement: "At the root, there is only one consciousness." But what if I kicked it away? What will be left of your card house? Now it is incumbent upon you to back this statement up with evidence if you really, really, really want to extrapolate from there. Otherwise you end up with a cock-and-bull story with no basis in reality... you know.. just saying..

Yeah, and that's called muscle memory. There is a grand misconception about the 'subconscious'. It is that it has become an easily accepted term, surely - what is implicit in its name is the idea that there are multiple layers of consciousness, transpiring to the outermost (the focal consciousness) occasionally, and it works in that fashion. Personally, I think the only viable alternative to 'consciousness' is 'unconsciousness'. I might be accused of a false dichotomy here, but hear me out. People think the subconscious is comprised of all which is not in their current awareness (memories, for instance). They cannot give you clear directions on whether it is meant as a definable faculty of the brain, or just a collective term for things not even neurologists understand completely as of yet - the fact remains that 'consciousness' is the faculty which perceives reality. It is an inescapable axiom. Oftentimes I hear that the subconscious is essentially a storage for information which exceeds the capacity of that of your consciousness. I'm not trying to be sarky here - but you're describing what is known to be your memory. People would immediately shut up with that waffle talk if they read Tor Nørretranders' "The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down To Size". It is explicitly stated that we are being bombarded with information, but our brain is capable of only processing just about.. 20 bits per second. Your consciousness works two-fold: By Integration and Differentiation. The only way in which to make sense of the information deluge of percepts is Exformation: The purposeful discarding of information to strategically attain information. In works like so. If I blotted out every rectangular shape from your eyes, you'd be able to deduce where all the houses and boxes are still - you lose information, but at the same time, you don't lose it. It is the same with shadows. It is for this reason that there is a hierarchy of data and percepts. Our eyes don't have an FPS like monitors. They receive a constant stream of information, most of which is discarded off-hand. The remaining data is being integrated into percepts, which in turn are being integrated into concepts by your faculty of consciousness. I think I made myself expressly clear on this. There is no room for junk information to go to your .. "other conscious"-nesses. "(..) and we are still mere thought forms, because everything is." We are thought forms? Please elucidate, if you will..?

Basically, it doesn't work. It started out as a troll and now the fandom is teeming with people that believe they could actually bifurcate their subconscious or anything esoterical like that. Strangely enough, everyone has their dime to give, and knows how it ought to work in theory. It has already been accepted that tulpas are known to work, which they don't. The closest you'll ever come is imagining your tulpa 24/7. It will not ever act on its own accord.

Dear me Not the bees I purposely left out the fears I still have

Oh.. well let's think back... About 5 years ago, me and our girls were struggling to open this sixpack of 1.5 liter coke with plastic wrapping (it was more or less impossible to open with your hands) So I just drew a knife from the knife block Which was the largest knife, a bread knife And I shanked that bitch For some inscrutable reason I managed to stab right into the coke bottle and make it explode in the kitchen It is to this day still sung as my greatest moment, though really all I did was cover us in coke by means of a thoughtless whim.

Madame Luna in Bust-A-Move 4. Triceratops in Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped. I think that's all..

Continue. I would applaud anyone that manages to give me a right scare. Though if it is [REDACTED], I might just start walking up the walls. Seriously, screw those little bastards.

How about asking her to take up the Randi challenge instead of wasting other people's time, effort and money?

Mary is not a psychotic bitch. Draco in Leatherpants does not apply to Mary Guertena, not by any stretch of the definition. Period.

I'm currently re-reading all books, every night while letting a random HP movie play. Page 705/956 of Order of the Phoenix. The bloomsbury set includes a picture of JKR at the last page, as part of the cover. It's a brilliant idea, if you ask me: when you finish the book, you can fall in love with JKR all over again, and take your time to appreciate this fair woman in all her glory. Is anyone here a pottermore-goer? If so, what house were you sorted in?