The belief in an objective reality is the source of all bigotries and nearly all oppressions. It’s the reason for religious genocides, transphobia, capitalism, and zionism. You believe in less reality than the people who do those things. You’re less reality. I want you to go further, be more radical, believe in no reality. I think you haven’t gone far enough yet.
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elbarto777@lemmy.world 2 days agoI want you to open your mind to the impossible and question everything.
I can certainly do that.
I don’t really care whether you see gravity as inescapable
Well, this is not helping.
But sorry, absolutely no one can escape gravity. It’s everywhere in the universe. Can you escape Earth’s gravity? Sure. Good luck escaping the solar system’s gravity, or the galaxy’s gravity, or the local cluster’s gravity. So that’s my point. The Wright Brothers “example” is a non-starter.
Everything else you mentioned are not “natural laws.” They are human/social constructs, which you pointed out and we can agree on.
But I thought soulism went beyond that. It’s okay. Today I learned something new. Thanks.
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 1 day ago
elbarto777@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I fundamentally disagree with all you said. You’re essentially saying that we must believe in subjectivities, which is a core principle of all religions even if they don’t say so.
By remaining truly objective, I have preserved my capability to be free and to help those surrounding me.
Yours is just some other metaphysical philosophy, and the “soul” in soulism, a concept I don’t believe in at all, should have tipped me off.
Good luck with everything. Have a nice weekend.
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 1 day ago
I find it quite sad that you don’t believe chocolate tastes good. I do, and the fact brings Me happiness, despite its subjectivity.
elbarto777@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Lol!
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 2 days ago
Well, Donald Hoffman, the cognitive psychologist investigating perception of reality, has asserted that spacetime is a mental construct that simplifies our perception of the world around us so that it requires fewer resources to sustain. Since under Einstein gravity is curvature of spacetime, if true this means gravity is part of our interface too. There is something making people fall down ladders, but it’s not as simple as our mind perceives it to be, even for Einstein. Newtonian gravity and Aristotlean gravity have of course been entirely debunked and were thus “escaped”.
So yeah, gravity is fake. But gravity’s fakeness isn’t that important.
elbarto777@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Newtonian gravity and Aristotlean gravity have of course been entirely debunked
Can’t speak for the Aristotle part, but yup… that sentence is just bullshit. Don’t say stuff like this in public, man. It’s embarrassing.
Ok, I’m done with this topic.
Have a good weekend.
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 1 day ago
Einstein showed Newton was wrong about gravity
elbarto777@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Lol!
For other readers: Einstein expanded Newton’s findings. Classical vs quantum physics.
rako@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 1 day ago
A more interesting way is to understand that there is a difference between what is and how it affects us. The point isn’t so much to decide whether gravity exists or not but to make sure it doesn’t impose any unfair weight (ha) on some members of the society and not others. When we say “it’s just exists” we’re very close to say “there’s nothing we can do about this” and that justifies unfair situations.
elbarto777@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I understand. Thanks!