Physical space is the delusion of the state of being anywhere at once only without anything being there at all. Physical time is the delusion of the state of passing from past present and future without anything being in that state at all. Matter is the delusion of the state of being solid and having shape and being extended and having mass without there being anything material at all. Energy is the delusion of the state of pure activity without anything acting or being acted on at all. And light is the delusion of the state of visibility without anything being seen or seen by anyone at all.
The truth of perception is that it enables us to successfully navigate the world and detect prey and predators and potential mates, not that it accurately represents reality. Just as it does with all different moving species. More like a radar screen than a TV screen.
The secret to being persuasive is not being able to argue well. It's the knack for finding just the right metaphors to make your point relatable and exciting. You don't have to make people believe. You have only to make them WANT to believe. They must feel like they made up their own minds about it.
I feel like selfness is grounded in our invariantly being in the state of here and now. The present in time and the present in space. One absolute presence. The fixed center point in an infinite circumference. Not a thing nor anything objective but the felt and observed self-presencing of being itself.
A clock can tell time because it agrees with all other clocks. If it is off by the slightest degree, it is no longer telling time. If all the clocks are also off by the same degree, then it resumes telling time again. If half the clocks are off by the same degree from half of all other clocks then time is undecideable. If a clock and all the other clocks stopped at the same second, they would still be telling time. Only it will just be the time when all the clocks stopped.
Abstractions again. Maybe the only thing that is ever quantifiable--ever measurable--are magnitudes, all magnitudes being abstractions. Which means all this hoopla about whatever is physically real is what is measurable is BS. It was only ever measuring speed, size, duration, volume, charge, distance, density, frequency, rate, weight, force, power, probabilities, energy, mass, symmetry, pattern, information, bits, temperature, structures, units, wholes, constants, variables, values, lines, points, planes, shapes, particles, fields, waveforms, dimensions, algorithms, vectors, states, superpositions, inertial frames, branes. Not physical things themselves. Just magnitudes, quantities, abstractions. Mere tools seemingly enabling the consistent but entirely learned epiphany of cognition.
And so then all this ability of mathematics to apparently precisely define and predict and prove what is real is really just the ability of more abstractions, numbers again being nothing more than quantities, measuring quantities. What about all those laws of physics? Mere abstractions again. Abstractions suspended as they are in some reified timeless spaceless dimension not real in itself but only referentially and semantically real. Like language is, which sits over everything we perceive and experience in the real world like a vast superimposed overlay or schematic, mere predications and definitions existing as if inhering inside physical reality itself.
Being metaphysical subjects now, more basic than just physical bodies or ideational minds, we are opened up now to more primordial ontic states. States like undecidability, noumenality, transcendence, Zen self-awareness, possibilization, necessitation, nihilism, cosmicity, synchronicity, otherness, self-enactment, futural projection, truth-expressing, solipsism, presencing, semanticizing, gnosis, numinosity, and instantiation.
The subject of knowing knows itself as knowing not as a thing that is known.
Even if you wait forever, the present will never ever "have happened." Meaning it is never objectively real. But that doesn't mean it is a mere subjective fiction or illusion either. It is the essential phenomenal condition for anything becoming real at all. It is more than real. It is inevitable.
Give up trying to fit in. No one understands you because no one was ready for you. They think you shouldn't be here at all. They have no idea that you are the first of your kind.
Oct 27, 2026 11:47 PM
(This post was last modified: Oct 27, 2026 11:59 PM by Magical Realist.)
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