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Venting Reality, and my self-esteem

3nufk1n.sheepies

autistic apoxian eastern european toker
#1
I romanticise something so much that is so hard to describe.
the hyperindividualism factor explains why.

because I make being a philosopher part of my identity so much, to type as something in MBTI strongly associated with naive realism feels like a major threat, no wonder I get painfully jealous whenever others are better than I am at coming up with philosophical theories.
The fact I struggle to realise reality is a simulation myself, and can only be convinced via the responses of others (it is extraverted of me to be influenced by the external environment), makes me very sad.

If I were to discover that most people I know, if not everyone, are secretly convinced reality is false and I'm the odd one out, the only one that takes reality for granted, I'd feel miserable.
 

3nufk1n.sheepies

autistic apoxian eastern european toker
#2
My self-hatred is profound. I'm struggling to appreciate anything about myself at all, because my self-worth is massively tied into how removed from reality I am. My favourite colours, my favourite clothes, my favourite music, my favourite video games, etc? all part of reality. what exists for me other than "reality"? Nothing, therefore I am an extreme sensor.

the more "coherent" "well-defined" "concrete" someone is the more of a "sim" they are

I don't want to be VISCERAL.
I don't want to be PRE-PROGRAMMED.
I don't want to be a NAIVE REALIST.
I don't want to have POOR REASONING SKILLS.
 

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