what would be your Ideal existence

[dwixi]

You will need to think about this hard. Dont jump to thinking just about would you want this but to be rich or something. I mean EVERYTHING.

OKay so. Why something when there could be nothing? Well There is SOMETHING! Is extraordinary isnt it?

But. Would you want to change it?

Would you like to live a life like this?
Would you like to experience a sense of time?
Would you like there to be a whole universe for you to discover? Or how about for everything to just be endless red light that you float in but dont actually go anywhere.

Would you like a brain programmed differently? you to feel like you are experiencing full lives but every second.

Would you like life to be one bust of pleasure?


would you like to start again and again. killing each possibility after a certan period but you wouldnt be scared because you would know in the long run you are in complete control.

Would you create an ego?

Would the creator start with an ego in the first place? I think a creator would have to have an ego in the first place otherwise he wouldn't know how to set up values for the life creations.

What would be your perfect something instead of nothing?

[Elmud]

Originally Posted by dwixi

You will need to think about this hard. Dont jump to thinking just about would you want this but to be rich or something. I mean EVERYTHING.

OKay so. Why something when there could be nothing? Well There is SOMETHING! Is extraordinary isnt it?

But. Would you want to change it?

Would you like to live a life like this?
Would you like to experience a sense of time?
Would you like there to be a whole universe for you to discover? Or how about for everything to just be endless red light that you float in but dont actually go anywhere.

Would you like a brain programmed differently? you to feel like you are experiencing full lives but every second.

Would you like life to be one bust of pleasure?


would you like to start again and again. killing each possibility after a certan period but you wouldnt be scared because you would know in the long run you are in complete control.

Would you create an ego?

Would the creator start with an ego in the first place? I think a creator would have to have an ego in the first place otherwise he wouldn't know how to set up values for the life creations.

What would be your perfect something instead of nothing?

I'd like to be surprised.

[dwixi]

Originally Posted by Elmud

I'd like to be surprised.

So like this? mystery when you already exist. I definitely wouldn't choose that. I HATE philosophy. I just feel drawn towards it.

[richrf]

Hi,

I too do not spend much time (if any at all) thinking about ideals. I figure like this:

1) If I do not reach my ideals I am going to be bummed out.

2) If I do reach my ideals, I am going to bummed out because there is nothing else to do.

So rather than be bummed out, I don't search for truths, Nirvanas, the ideal life, or long to travel somewhere else. I am OK where I am. But I will always keep exploring, as long as my health allows me to.

Hey, keep up with your explorations - just don't get bummed out. OK?

Rich

[dwixi]

Originally Posted by richrf

Hi,

I too do not spend much time (if any at all) thinking about ideals. I figure like this:

1) If I do not reach my ideals I am going to be bummed out.

2) If I do reach my ideals, I am going to bummed out because there is nothing else to do.

So rather than be bummed out, I don't search for truths, Nirvanas, the ideal life, or long to travel somewhere else. I am OK where I am. But I will always keep exploring, as long as my health allows me to.

Hey, keep up with your explorations - just don't get bummed out. OK?

Rich

Im mainly bringing it up to raise the sub question. Is this existence perfect but are egos get in the way of us seeing it.

[richrf]

Originally Posted by dwixi

Im mainly bringing it up to raise the sub question. Is this existence perfect but are egos get in the way of us seeing it.

Hi,

Yes, I think you can think of existence as being perfect depending upon your own ideas of what is perfection. I prefer to think of existence, as what is. Of course, whatever is is subject to change. I never have known anything to turn out exactly as I expected it to turn out. Life is always full of surprises.

So, if you can imagine a changing perfection then certainly, what is can be considered perfect. And yes, we get bored quickly, so our egos (our consciousness) will quickly start looking for something else, which in itself can be considered perfect. It is what it is and who should say it should be otherwise.

Rich

[Elmud]

Originally Posted by dwixi

So like this? mystery when you already exist. I definitely wouldn't choose that. I HATE philosophy. I just feel drawn towards it.

It would be surprising to find out that there is more to this than what it is. i would like to be surprised.

[urangutan]

Living close enough to work that I could walk there and spending FriDay evenings at the pub (bar, saloon), drinking beer and smoking Afghani Black hash legally. Spend the rest of the weekend just with family and friends.

[Didymos Thomas]

Urangutan, I get the idea that we'd get along pretty well.

[parker pyne]

Drifting in a cloud of knowledge. But the cloud of knowledge is incomplete, just to keep me interested - for you can't have curiosity without mystery. And my body would be discarded, it's just extraneous luggage.

Oh and unlimited supply of cinnamon doughnuts.