Rebelistic
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I like that video Melting Pot. I acually think that is quite possible, not so much being in a god's egg but the idea of all conciousness being the same as that explains why we "beat the odds" as I put it. That is something I hadn't considered.
If our memory is wiped between each "incarnation" then in pratical terms what is the difference between every conciousness being unique vs every conciousness being the same. The only thing that connects us to the past (at least as far as our concious mind is concerned) is our memory.
We exist because we exist? I'm open to the idea that maybe we don't, maybe what we think of as "reality" isn't real? Maybe my own conciousness is an illusion?
That sounds a lot like some Buddhist ideas I have come accross. Maybe to live is to suffer (life is hell) and the nirvana we seek is simply to no longer exist, to become nothing? I'm not sure I like that idea so much, I like the idea of nirvana being a kind of heaven but that seems like wishful thinking perhaps.
All these ideas are like untestable hypotheses so I guess we'll never know for sure but I can't help but wonder about these things.
If our memory is wiped between each "incarnation" then in pratical terms what is the difference between every conciousness being unique vs every conciousness being the same. The only thing that connects us to the past (at least as far as our concious mind is concerned) is our memory.
ergo cogito sum I think therefore I am. Doesn't require Infinite. Is just is.
We exist because we exist? I'm open to the idea that maybe we don't, maybe what we think of as "reality" isn't real? Maybe my own conciousness is an illusion?
I was actually paraphrasing, a couple of ideas and probably poorly at that. First was something that I read about ascending through the astral planes of existence via transmigration; our goal being to get to nirvana, where the concept of existence would mean something else entirely to our newly-enlightened selves. I suppose that I've coupled that idea with matt groening's famous posit that our life is hell, along with love, work, school, etc. But basically I interpret the preceding that we take steps forward and sometimes backwards, until we somehow 'graduate', to place & time beyond where we can ascend no more.
As to what we would do with our 'selves' at that point, I have a feeling that it just wouldn't be an issue any longer, because we would become one with everything; including whatever ideals we used to worship.
...or not
That sounds a lot like some Buddhist ideas I have come accross. Maybe to live is to suffer (life is hell) and the nirvana we seek is simply to no longer exist, to become nothing? I'm not sure I like that idea so much, I like the idea of nirvana being a kind of heaven but that seems like wishful thinking perhaps.
All these ideas are like untestable hypotheses so I guess we'll never know for sure but I can't help but wonder about these things.