There is no “Life”. What you consider to be “living things” are no more dead or alive than rocks, plants, air, the Sun, or the vacuum of space.

You’ll realize it’s the truth eventually.

Life is an illusion. Think of it this way:

You are a bag of meat composed of the same protons and neutrons that exist anywhere else in the observable universe.

“Spirituality” is a misnomer.

There’s nothing spiritual about the ground level of what we perceive as Reality.

The only thing that exists is consciousness. You’re right.

I think therefore I am

Good luck on your introspective journeys. I hope you end up in a place where you’re at peace (dead fkn srs). One thing I’ll agree with-taking focus off of yourself, and acting upon that, will reveal more about who you are than any number of hours sitting around and ruminating over your existence.

Yes. But the “you” you think you are, doesn’t exist and never has.

You are only pure consciousness. But there is no “YOU”

How is it that your consciousness has been the same, up until this moment, since you first began perceiving the world around you?

Your “self” is the accumulation of your experiences in your brain that allows you to think you are an individual

OP you good dude?

Be that as it may, your brief flicker of life is made more miserable by wallowing in such thoughts. Reality is we don’t know ****. Any claim to the contrary is arrogant folly. In the meantime I’ll keep my God, my traditional family values, and my small meaningless but productive and fulfilling (for me) life. Who knows maybe I’ll be right in the end.

Amen bro. Agreed 100%

There is only ONE non-changing infinite existence. And because it's infinite (endless), it has no boundaries, and something without boundaries is not something, it's No-thing.

This ONE No-thing, pure existence NEVER stops being ONE No-thing, pure existence no exception. The waves never stop being the ocean.

i remember when i read my first philosophy quote

If there is no "self" then 1st, 2nd and 3rd person pronouns should not be used.

But you are constantly using "YOU" and "WE."

I'm confused.....(*English question)

Well, I don't really think that the end can be assessed as of itself as being the end because what does the end feel like? It's like saying when you try to extrapolate the end of the universe, you say, if the universe is indeed infinite, then how - what does that mean? How far is all the way, and then if it stops, what's stopping it, and what's behind what's stopping it? So, what's the end, you know, is my question to you.

Someone call the ambalamps, these dudes suffering from depersonalization/derealization

Agreed. I cant remember which religion it was but it was supposedly born out of asian serfs after the king like banished them.. makes sense

Cant get anything so destroy wanting anything

I think people get wrapped up in the consciousness "you" - that "you" is just a euphemism for your body

Lmfao facts, literal pleb mentality

Sometimes I look in the mirror at myself and think "this is really me?"

anyone else

like it gets super deep and depressing.. Its like I have seen my soul. I am me instead of an actor..

weird **** man.

I won't ever do it again.

This. You gotta let yourself stare into the darkness to see the light boyo. Srs.

Yep. New and exciting.

Shakespeare
“ To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.”

Faulkner (in a book that was titled after the above quote)
“I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.“

I’m intentionally avoiding German philosophers, because I don’t want to depress myself. OP, your thoughts on all of this would be better served in a classroom where you might get a decent mark, and possibly use those credits to supplement the ones that are actually useful towards a career.

no i totally understand what you're saying. i would say most people are more wrapped up in their body than their consciousness "you"

but i think people can play with either or. you can get too wrapped up in either direction

honestly... this stuff is hard to talk about because it's not even known in the science world what this is all about

bottom line is consciousness is prob emergent from your brain. if you had no brain there'd be no "you" - consciousness "you"

so in that sense you cant break it away from your body. maybe if you're viewing the mind and body as separate (which almost nobody does in science anymore.. but its worth nothing there are still theories out there)

and trying to "break free" or "destroy the ego" is also implying something exists, as if nothing existed then there'd be nothing to fight; in other words, that's still a choice. just a chitty, unproductive one as you've highlighted. also worth nothing that lots of this is born in archaic, extremely old ideologies

also, even if you thought there was no "consciousness you" you were still a living, breathing body that did not actually physically die

All of you need to cut out the philosophical BS. You will gain nothing from thinking, analyzing, and abstracting all day like a weirdo. This kind of thing only leads to unhappiness. Go do something productive or something you enjoy