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"Drell can mentally escape into old memories. It came in handy on the bad days". -Feron, on Hagalaz

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Social media without socializing

I'm coming to COLORADO! Catch me in DENVER on Jan 22 at The Tattered Cover<, and in COLORADO SPRINGS from Jan 23–25 where I'm the Guest of Honor at COSine. Then I'll be in OTTAWA on Jan 28 at Perfect Books and in TORONTO with Tim Wu on Jan 30.

From the earliest days of social media, social media bosses have been at war with sociability. To create a social media service is to demarcate legitimate and illegitimate forms of sociability. It's a monumental act of hubris, really.

It was ever thus. The founder of Friendster decreed that people could only form friendship bonds with each other, but could not declare themselves to be "friends" of everyone with a common interest. You and I could be friends, but you couldn't be "friends" with a group called "bloggers." Each member of that group would have to create a reciprocal friendship link to see one another's feeds.

Way back in 1999, Larry Lessig taught us that "code is law." By encoding these restrictions into the feed, Friendster's programmers were putting limits on the kinds of relationships that could be formed using the service. But Lessig's law (code?) is often overidden by an even older principle: William Gibson's 1982 maxim that "the street finds its own uses for things."

Friendster told its users how to be friends with one another, and Friendster's users treated Friendster's management as damage and routed around it. They created accounts with names like "New York City" and whenever anyone friended that account, it friended them back. Users hacked their own way to form "illegitimate" friendships based on affinity into the system:

https://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2003/08/17/the_fakester_manifesto.html

As social media turned into a billion- (and then a trillion-) dollar business, the urgency of the struggle between how social media bosses demanded that we socialize and how we wanted to socialize only got sharper. Mark Zuckerberg doubtless thought he was covering all his bases when he tossed a casual "It's complicated" to the pulldown menu for defining your relationship status, but that's because he doesn't understand how complicated all our relationships are:

https://www.phillymag.com/news/2013/07/10/facebook-complicated-relationship-status/

For Zuck, crisply defined relationships were things that he could do simple math on in order to target ads, make recommendations, and sort users into categories. When you need to treat relationships as elements in a series of discrete mathematical operations, the fact that relationships are intrinsically, irreducibly qualitative is a serious bug. So Zuck did what computer scientists usually do when they want to do math on qualitative variables: he incinerated all the qualitative elements by quantizing them, and then did math on the dubious residue that remained:

https://locusmag.com/feature/cory-doctorow-qualia/

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The God Who Knows Itself

"The man who is aware of being God knows that the world is himself, and there is no other." — Me paraphrasing Neville 🤍

So in his lectures, Neville spoke the exact core fragments of this:

1. "The man who is aware of being God..." In his lecture on July 16, 1968 which was called "There Is No Other God", Neville explained the awakening process: "When you awaken, you do not find another... you are God. And there is no other being in the world."

2. "...knows that the world is himself." Later in the same 1968 teaching series, he connects this directly to what we know as EIYPO: "You will realize that the world is yourself pushed out. You are the light that animates it."

The truth is once you understand this you know why the don’t have free will. This isn’t coercion or manipulation. They are witness to YOUR assumptions. Therefore they CANNOT choose or NOT choose you to begin with.

Here is mechanical truth on why:

“Change your conception of yourself and you will automatically change the world in which you live. Do not try to change people; they are only messengers telling you who you are. Revalue yourself and they will confirm the change.” — Neville Goddard

Everything stems from YOU as source in YOUR reality because YOU ARE REALITY. Yes, YOUR assumptions of the world, people, ect are also YOUR creation. You never intermingle with another godself. You ONLY ever intermingle with projections of YOUR consciousness and mind. They are still you which stems from YOU aka your identity, assumptions, and concepts. (Sometimes you also just intermingle with the scenario creation is finished because everything you perceive is a fragment of you.) So when YOU shift YOUR assumption about your SP, your money, or your body, you aren't changing something "outside." There is no outside.

YOU are changing rather selecting the version of them or whatever it’s is you desire that ALREADY exists inside YOUR mind. And since the “seemingly” outer world is just a mirror of the inner world, the your 3D has no choice but to reflect whatever YOU just decreed.

That means NOTHING has the power to resist. NOTHING has a separate script to run. NOTHING can be stubborn against you, because their entire existence in your reality is powered by YOUR awareness. As Goddard said YOU animated the world. 🤍

"Although others have bodies, a life of their own, their reality is rooted in you, ends in you, as yours ends in God." — Neville Goddard

Here’s the blunt truth I’ve come access in consistent knowledge:

There are NO others. YOUR SP does NOT think of you or long for you on their own. NOT in a victim way but because this is the mechanisms. They give the “seemingly” appearance of those things but it’s NOT of their own free will. Their relationships and life AREN’T their own. They CANNOT choose to be or NOT be with you. They are projections, stories, assumptions and concepts of YOU appearing within YOUR awareness. They AREN’T aware. They NEVER have been and NEVER were. They are just fragments of YOU and they are actors in YOUR movie. Their reality is rooted in YOU as Goddard said. This is YOUR dream and YOU are the dreamer. 🤍

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The more isolated you become, the more difficult it becomes to see the world outside of you. Greater and greater isolation means that the relevant part of the world shrinks until it contains no one but you. In this tiny world, you are in control, you are the arbiter of truth, and you determine what is real and what is fake.

As your interactions with others gradually cease, you stop participating in their shared reality, which means the norms and truths of that reality stop applying to you. Even the natural world, which seems to impose certain conditions on your existence, can be mostly avoided or at least mitigated through technologies that allow you to separate yourself from nature. When all of your basic needs can be met without interacting with anyone, then your isolation has become total. Your new world has a population of one, and its form is whatever you give it.

What the solipsist means is quite correct; only it cannot be said, but makes itself manifest. The world is *my* world: this is manifest in the fact that the limits of language (of that language which alone I understand) mean the limits of *my* world.

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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But can’t I imagine that the people around me are automata, lack consciousness, even though they behave in the same way as usual? — If I imagine it now — alone in my room — I see people with fixed looks (as in a trance) going about their business — the idea is perhaps a little uncanny. But just try to keep hold of this idea in the midst of your ordinary intercourse with others, in the street, say! Say to yourself, for example: “The children over there are mere automata; all their liveliness is mere automatism”. And you will either find these words becoming quite meaningless; or you will produce in yourself some kind of uncanny feeling, or something of the sort.

- Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations (1958)

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Bilmirəm, sizdə də olub, ya yox. Bəzən insanın içində qəribə bir hiss yaranır. Elə bil hər şey yerindədir, amma nə isə çatmır. Küçədən keçən insanlar, danışan səslər, toxunduğun əşyalar, qısası, hər şey bir anlıq qəribə dərəcədə uzaq görünür. Sanki sən buradasan, amma dünya bir az kənardadır. Bu anlarda ağlımıza gələn düşüncələr "Solipsistik sindrom" adlanır və bu da təməlini "Solipsizm" fəlsəfəsindən götürür. Ədəbiyyatda buna "təkmənçilik" də deyilir.

Bu fəlsəfədə “mən”dən başqa heç bir reallıq yoxdur və bu reallıq yalnız subyektiv deyil, həm də abstraktdır. Yəni həqiqətən konkret bir dünya da yoxdur. Var olanlar, varmış kimi görünənlər yalnız mənin təsəvvürümün məhsuludur. Hər şeyin mərkəzində “mən” dayanır və hər şey yalnız mənim tərəfimdən qəbul edildiyi müddətcə mövcuddur.

Fəlsəfədə təkmənçilik iki sahədə işlənir:

Varlıq bilikləri: Yalnız özüm varam, mənim xaricimdə heç nə yoxdur.

Bilik nəzəriyyəsi: Yalnız öz “mən”imi bilə bilərəm, xarici dünyadan heç bir şey bilə bilmərəm.

Bu yanaşmaya görə, “mən” hər şeyin çıxış və əsas nöqtəsidir. Tarixi olaraq Descartes və Driesch kimi filosoflarda bu fikirlərə rast gəlmək mümkündür.

Bəzən deyilir ki, Tanrı belə bir yalnızlığı özünə rəva görmədiyi üçün kainatı yaratdı. Yaratdıqları onun əksidir, onlarda özünü görür. Doğrudur, ya da deyil, hətta var, ya da yoxdur, bu ayrıca bir müzakirə mövzusudur. Lakin söhbət yemək yeyən, ac qalan, yuxusu gələn, aciz, tək, zəif, sadəcə ətdən, sümükdən, karbon ərintisindən ibarət bir canlıdan gedirsə, xüsusilə də bu canlı başını çırpana qədər ağacı, içinə düşənə qədər quyunu, mədəsi guruldayana qədər aclığı və göz qapaqları öz-özünə yumulana qədər yuxusuzluğu yalnız özünün görmədiyini, hiss etmədiyini və ya şüurunda əks olunmadığını iddia edirsə və hər inkar etdiyi, hər keçən gün onu bir az daha ümidsizliyə, qəbul edilməyən dərin məyusluqlara aparırsa, üstəlik, bədən qidalanmasından hər gün bir az da sağlamlığını itirmiş zehni qaranlıq koridorlarda tək-tənha dolaşmağa məcbur olursa, bu, guya “ali” olan bir sindroma çevrilir.

Əlbəttə ki, elm solipsizmi çürütmək üçün istifadə edilə bilər. Biz real dünyanı düşüncələrimizdə və abstrakt olaraq qəbul etsək də, bu, xarici kainatın mövcud olmadığı anlamına gəlmir. Elm sübut edib ki, düşüncələrimiz kimyəvi və fiziki proseslərin nəticəsidir, yəni çox da abstrakt deyildir.

Üstəlik, təsəvvür edək ki, biz soliptistik. Bunu hardan bilirik? Bunu bizə təsvir etdirən nədir? Bizə tabe olduğunu düşündüyümüz hər “şey”(varlıq), diqqət edin, “şey” dedim, nədir? Özümüzdən belə şübhə etmək üçün əvvəlcə şübhə duyacaq bir varlığa (özümüzə) ehtiyacımız yoxdurmu? Əgər yoxdursa, bu eyni zamanda biz də yoxuq demək deyilmi?

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