superstistion pt2

[maggot432]

You're obviously in the christmas spirit.

[Surhotchaperchlorome]

It looks unpolished and annoying.

[yeahwotevaman]

The perception of being trapped in a dead and rotting world is terrifying, but that's all it is - a perception. I think that the the thing being perceived (reality) is fundamentally eternal and unchanging, but the nature of perception itself is plastic, insubstantial and ultimately unreal, and that goes for the narrow, mundane zones of peception that most of us occupy for most of our lives - that safe little corner which is considered 'sane'.

[blackacidlizzard]

Eternal and unchanging?

That may depend upon what the true nature of time (still not a settled matter, from what I understand) or it may depend upon the point of perspective you are taking - your exact meaning.

[yeahwotevaman]

Time is generally experienced as a linear progression in the same way the external physical world is generally experienced as being made up of discrete things. I would say that this is a matter of perception, not a fact of reality.

The perception of the world being dead and rotting is a prehaps a distorted reflection of reality. The distress (or pleasure) comes from the reflection, not the thing itself.

[blackacidlizzard]

Indeed, I would say that all pleasure or distress only comes from the combination of the perception and the personality - no mere reality can cause emotion.

I intuitively experience time as not existing, yet relativity theory and certain observed phenomena seem to indicate (to me, at least) that time does somehow have an actual existence; that it is its own separate force/property.

[Surhotchaperchlorome]

Same for the ".wmv" on this one too.