Cadcam

I was always a minor dabbler in occult and mystical things, casually reading and adopting different magical ideas, but then a spirit got ahold of me and I stumbled into serious belief, yet, I did not know what to believe. I started searching and what I found led me to pain and madness. I found myself living out ideas that evolved on their own, and started overlaying my daily waking awareness mixing with dream and fantasy. I would act out in response to the hallucinations. Eventually these fantasies would break, and I'd wind up in a deep depression. This has been going on for 20 plus years, and after this last psychosis, I think I have broken this curse, because all of the ideas and experiences culminated in a total breakdown. Crossing my fingers.

Now that my meds have taken hold, I'm stable. It's been about 4 months of normalcy, thankfully. I can't believe how insane I became.

Art is dead. The days of illuminating us on the struggles and turns of the mind as we engage in our journey as a society are gone. All that the artists offer us now are stories of lust and villainy. We are sold to temptation of indulgence and crime, and the reward or folly of both. Man has lost its soul for community and compassion and mercy. We no longer care about other people's hardships and curing them Man now lives its Age of Entitlement where living high on low pleasures is the affordable and easy path to happiness. Virtue is dead, our conflicts are unjust retaliation of criminal governments, soldiers are no longer heroes. Our champions of athletics and science and culture aim for wealth and not honor.

They already have that one

I thought since there's so many thinkers here, that we should join forces and create a pov and detail life from it. We would need a thesis statement, like "God is love" or "desire is suffering" Post your ideas and we'll vote!

You can come up with a unique premise that illustrates something fundamental about existence, and then we branch it off to become all inclusive

What's it even matter, anyways? Everyone has their own beliefs and experiences, it's impossible to agree. It's all chaos.

I am at a stage in life where I see all the chatter online and I look out my door and it is quiet. It gets me thinking about the life we experience. I once mourned that the world is not led by kindness and a voice asked me if they should destroy it, I said no. So now I wonder, as I get along in years, experiencing the suffering of age and disease, and seeing it around me, I ask: is there more joy than suffering? Have I made a mistake in saying not to destroy this place?

The only emotions I experience are sadness fear and grief, from witnessing the world's imperfections and suffering.

That's interesting. I too no longer feel joy or happiness. It stems from a time my friends all turned their backs on me, and I thought "all I want is to give them my love" I realized this was codependent and selfish, and I abandoned the desire to inspire joy in them. Something changed inside of me, I became more centered and focused on my solar plexus. Now I sit and don't oner reach. I'm content, but miss joy

We are our responses to what we encounter, based on what we are told to believe.

Yes we can experience joy without suffering, and vice versa. I tire of people saying we can't have this without that. We appreciate it more when the other comes, that is all.

Along with good and evil, it is worth contemplating and recognizing ones concepts of love and hate, desire, and happiness. When one understands these, and their expectations of them, they can understand much of life's actions and choices.

The world can be understood by contemplating and cataloging thoughts on chaos and order. Remember, chaos is an illusion, for everything is, and everything has an origin and reason. There is no chaos, just ignorance and misunderstanding. In nature there is reason, and the elements follow an order. Animal life has an order as well, and animals do not have much of a moral code. It is human beings, with their ability for logic and language, that is defined and organized by morality. Indeed, morality and moral tales define much of humanity, and the Order that controls chaos in humans can be explained by a cultures sense of good and evil.

Perhaps I am a little too Cynical. I feel betrayed by philosophy. At the end of the day it seems like it all fails. I appreciate my education though.

Sounds like you have it all cataloged well. It's a nice outline, full of hope! Even has an account for God's and creation.

Yes! Where is it

We need a central thesis, one that catches the mind, and that can be used to craft other observations. Something like " man was meant to create beauty"

All we have is life. We have a limited variety of ways to live in life, and we also limit our behavior. What makes life worth living? Are you living to fulfill obligations to family? Are you satisfied? Would you want your life to carry over into the next one? Do you think the environment and laws are the same as here? Do you think the next life will go on forever? If one believes in a God, the idea is that that God is immortal. Do you think that God limits itself? After existing for eternity, do you think God is bored? If there is a God, is it the Creator? If so, how do you think the world is upheld? How do you think the afterlife is upheld? Is it someone's job to take care of these worlds, and the souls that are in it?

A school of nihilism!

Wow! OK, so I've already done it! This is a great foundation, thanks for putting them all in one place!

Sure. To navigate the web, to inspire action, to create.

Philosophical observations can be paradigms based on ideas that may or may not apply to the situation, and is therefore fantasy. Though sometimes successful at illuminating truth, it can often miss that goal. Knowledge and understanding are magical tools that creat a web of illusion, when life is simply quiet, and all we really do is sleep, work and eat.

I believe we are more than the forms and known parts of our bodies. I believe there are parts not known, and I believe they connect with some outer structure or network. We travel to other dimensions via this, and that is where dreams come from, as well, probably, the place for an afterlife. I believe that existence is a structure, and that entities move within it, and can alter its laws.

Bliss is a pretty boundless and unfocused version of joy. Idk if it's higher but I can say that gratitude trumps appreciation.