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Originally Posted by schizophrenicroom

i'm not into the puppeteer but i want to think something's out there a bit bigger than everyone.

well of course. the self is a fiction, if you think about it. the "soul", in its most common version, the "individual ghost", is what exactly?

individuals are just little packets of genes spreading out in the big cosmic muck. each equipped with an individual brain to help carry out its reproductive mission. the muck is what's real, a huge churning cauldron of genetic goo, plus the whole "inorganic" universe is far from lifeless-- this place is enormous.

so anyway hm yeah the self is a biologically-based social fiction, but upon closer examination such barriers melt.

re: the people you've met, well, there's something to that, but i wonder if it's not our dreamlife that seeks out those people during the daytime (whatever hours that may be-- my daytime runs from 11am to 4am, for example);