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prettiestofflowers said: 

Awww this is a really big step for you hun. Cute. too bad Delora isn't here I'm sure she would love to give you advice

To be honest you've kind of been a muse for absurdist themes for me for a bit now. There's much to learn from your behavior, as long as it's not followed as direct imitation. 

prettiestofflowers said: 

have you considered it is your attachment to your human consciousness filter, and human logic and current human mainstream scientific findings that has you annoyed by how much you do not understand in the first place?

Why throw away the rigor of hard work? I don't get how someone could choose to substitute the collective reality with their own. 

I get when it's a blindspot, but it's another thing entirely to have the choice of letting go of convention. 

Perhaps from a higher perspective, life wouldn't seem so annoyingly absurd

So called "higher" perspectives are the ones who've found the concept of Absurdity, and the Dunning Kruger fallacy's affect. It's living from a lower perspective that allows "The Absurd" to be tapped into. 

I've been at this point for a while now. Schadenfreude, B-Media, Post-Modernism, many concepts I've embraced have had an appreciation for "The Absurd". Even many a story that falls into jesters, bards, and scoundrels fall into these themes. 

It's one thing to observe it from a distance as a matter of appreciation, but it's another thing to be in the midst of it. To understand the absurd seems like it might be impossible in that The Absurd is meant to denote an acceptance with the lack of understanding. 

prettiestofflowers said: 

That would involve letting go of most the current beliefs you hold so near and dear though 

How is anyone supposed to change their default beliefs without something jarringly convincing being presented? 

Xena said: 

Turncoat said: 

Tryptahomie said: 

On top of that. You don't have to accept absurd, you just have to acknowledge it. 

But I want to understand it, not just comment on it's irony. 

All you need to understand is that the absurd is only considered absurd bc we've also constructed other systems like logic. If we as a species were unable to use reason and construct logical paradigms, we also wouldn't be able to recognize the absurd. The absurd is often used to contrast and highlight the rational, and what's considered 'proper.'

It seems like a key element to The Absurd is a lack of recognition of the problems, much like Naivete. 

It's so paradoxical in that trying to study anything brings a person further from the simpler answers. The pursuit of complication seems to make the simpler journeys impossible, as if the complicated path was their simpler path. 

Consider the lobster. Does it even know that it's the mascot used by an addict to preach Jungian life lessons to incels to get them to clean their rooms ?

And what would the lobster say if it knew it were being exploited so?

Turncoat said: 

prettiestofflowers said: 

Awww this is a really big step for you hun. Cute. too bad Delora isn't here I'm sure she would love to give you advice

To be honest you've kind of been a muse for absurdist themes for me for a bit now. There's much to learn from your behavior, as long as it's not followed as direct imitation. 

prettiestofflowers said: 

have you considered it is your attachment to your human consciousness filter, and human logic and current human mainstream scientific findings that has you annoyed by how much you do not understand in the first place?

Why throw away the rigor of hard work? I don't get how someone could choose to substitute the collective reality with their own. 

I get when it's a blindspot, but it's another thing entirely to have the choice of letting go of convention. 

Perhaps from a higher perspective, life wouldn't seem so annoyingly absurd

So called "higher" perspectives are the ones who've found the concept of Absurdity, and the Dunning Kruger fallacy's affect. It's living from a lower perspective that allows "The Absurd" to be tapped into. 

I've been at this point for a while now. Schadenfreude, B-Media, Post-Modernism, many concepts I've embraced have had an appreciation for "The Absurd". Even many a story that falls into jesters, bards, and scoundrels fall into these themes. 

It's one thing to observe it from a distance as a matter of appreciation, but it's another thing to be in the midst of it. To understand the absurd seems like it might be impossible in that The Absurd is meant to denote an acceptance with the lack of understanding. 

prettiestofflowers said: 

That would involve letting go of most the current beliefs you hold so near and dear though 

How is anyone supposed to change their default beliefs without something jarringly convincing being presented? 

I think you answered your own question here, in order to accept the absurd you have to accept that it is potentially not currently understandable. You can choose to either accept that or be disturbed/annoyed by it, and you can do either of those while continuing to seek understanding 

You accept it by simply.....accepting it instead of allowing yourself to be upset by it

Not thinking everything through seems risky though, as does giving myself the credit that I have some sort of answer that can't be confirmed by something outside of myself. 

How do people give themselves the benefit of the doubt? 

Turncoat said: 

Not thinking everything through seems risky though, as does giving myself the credit that I have some sort of answer that can't be confirmed by something outside of myself. 

How do people give themselves the benefit of the doubt? 

 No you can accept the absurd while continuing to question and seek understanding of it is what I mean. don't let not currently understanding it upset you, but that doesn't mean you have to stop seeking more understanding of it. just stay more neutral and curious about it instead of like life-or-death stressed I have to figure this out "or else" 

You're going to inevitably die eventually and that is the ultimate "else" right? that is going to happen eventually no matter what you do

prettiestofflowers said: 

Turncoat said: 

Not thinking everything through seems risky though, as does giving myself the credit that I have some sort of answer that can't be confirmed by something outside of myself. 

How do people give themselves the benefit of the doubt? 

No you can accept the absurd while continuing to question and understand it is what I mean.

Not really, the two have polar opposite understandings of what's going on. One can just wing the answer while the other simply can't. 

Questioning it misses the point, and doesn't allow it to be observed as more than just a witness. 

Turncoat said: 

prettiestofflowers said: 

Turncoat said: 

Not thinking everything through seems risky though, as does giving myself the credit that I have some sort of answer that can't be confirmed by something outside of myself. 

How do people give themselves the benefit of the doubt? 

No you can accept the absurd while continuing to question and understand it is what I mean.

Not really, the two have polar opposite understandings of what's going on. One can just wing the answer while the other simply can't. 

Questioning it misses the point, and doesn't allow it to be observed as more than just a witness. 

 I guess you see "accept" as ceasing to care about something either way? I don't see it that way, I see it more as a releasing of stress

Pathetic. As if labeling everything absurd will make all of your misery go away.

Cavalier said: 

Pathetic. As if labeling everything absurd will make all of your misery go away.

But if everything was absurd, then nothing would be.