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Nice. :) Wonder when they'll start redirecting the second one too hmm, seems a bit more user-friendly than a 403...
Also, are you able to right, and open @ads in a new tab? For me it does nothing
Right click? Yeah, though I get a 403 error, no content. Wonder if there's something you could append to said folder/filename though to get a result hmm...
Great voice work in Reduce 2 Cyberdevil
Hey thank you preskoo! :) If you ever need a VA for anything I'd be happy to jump in, been meaning to involve myself more with that type of stuff.
@S3C btw are you getting the PM Sentbox error thing too? Maybe you've kept your Sentbox pretty clear? They just imposed some limits there if you didn't know. 2 MB. :/ Wouldn't have minded a couple extra digits..
heiiiii boi. Been a while.
Eyyy wazzup man? :) A while indeed!
@AudioMachina22 @Cyberdevil Been a bit rough these last week(s) so just trying to chill out... listening on Soundcloud.
Nice. :) Hope things get better again man. Been reaaally stressed out with work too myself, but think I'm finally regaining my nerves a bit this week... soothing music there? Possible to chill with the more metal you usually (or used to) listen to...?
@AudioMachina22 @Cyberdevil @Cyberdevil Indd... permanent peace can not be far out of reach by now.
Permanent peace sounds almost like death though... really hope you just mean the music here. ;) Indd there, it really does a lot for you...
@AudioMachina22 @Cyberdevil @Cyberdevil Yeah. Death, whatever, as long as it doesn't involve "restarting the game". But life is more than a game though, isn't it...
Life is definitely more than a game. :) The thing about death is you have no way of knowing what it implies before you try it. Seems better left a last resort. If there's really no other way.
It could always be worse. An eternal torment. Reliving the worst moments of your life over and over and over... not that I'm religious but: you never know...
Or indeed. Maybe what waits after this life is just another one...
@AudioMachina22 ...but possibly a better one the more you make of this one...
I like to think that if you learn despair in one life maybe you can live without in the next one. Maybe the more unpleasant something you go through is the more probable it's a lesson you'll learn; won't need to relive in the next one.
@AudioMachina22 @Cyberdevil @Cyberdevil The studies of the Bible are very cryptic. I'm not religious, but not an atheist either. I believe in something. And all religions have something to say. Maybe open-mindedness is my religion...?
Mmm that's a good one! Same here, hopefully. :) AKA agnostic.
Deism's an interesting one too. The belief that there is a God, but that he just doesn't interact with us at all.
@AudioMachina22 ...if the multiple life alternation applies. One of many.
The one of there being nothing after this life is both all the more redeeming and all the more fearful. Like: life's not just for nothing, but even MORE for nothing if you don't manage to make something of it before it's over!
Personally the multiple life lesson path seems a bit more appealing to me. With the prospect you appreciate each life more each time you live one.
@AudioMachina22 @Cyberdevil @Cyberdevil There are many interpretations of the word "God". Back in the times I had a belief of God, but I can't quite remember how I perceived God. So I guess God is a very personal concept.
Mmm that's true! Possibly the man with a thousand faces bridging all our main religions too. :) Or woman. Or: gender-neutral pronoun here. Don't mean to in any way make God seem less Godly though, I see the word a bit more cynically I think, I never had a real perception of any kind of divine power. Though I'd like to. Life seems easier with faith.
I guess God equaled Santa to me... lol. In other words, I always denied the existence of God. Because it was so illogical.
Aha! XD Hmm, same here I guess... though I did believe in Santa once upon a time, I think...
Didn't grow up in a religious household though so God = way more foreign concept personally. When time came to form my own views I just didn't see the logic there. I claimed to be an atheist at first, but atheism has a bad rep so I changed that to agnostic, I don't really believe in science over all, just haven't found anything I believe in fully. Starting to lean more towards different beliefs as guidelines than actual beliefs. But seems I still have a lot of resistance to the construct, and in any branch that forces someone to do certain things in the name of faith, I realize a lot of traditions serve a purpose but still... certain element of brainwashing/indoctrination there too... wonder if you can really feel at home with any particular faith if you weren't born into it from the start, and how if so, what kind of experience do you need to live through to get there, and will it be of your own free will or more so just succumbing to peer pressure or the scare of your own mortality if/when you do...
@AudioMachina22 It's interesting that the deeper you go with monotheistic religions it seems they're pretty much all sides of the same coin too. The same God as experienced by different groups; rules scripted by different disciples thereof. But going either further back... our current ones aren't so new after all. We've always had Gods, but their faces keep changing; the myths that surround them. Are they hallucinations? From another dimension? Do drugs let you experience them; transcend our own realm of existence? Are they really eternal? Could we actually have different ones through different times? Are they possibly aliens, another race that has somehow transcended or evolved past ours, more so than a single 'divine entity'?
Regarding those bible studies btw: the Christian scriptures on reincarnation are a pretty interesting read too. Suddenly it seems like even Buddhism may tie in to the greats, closest maybe to the Deism approach, overpowering energy or entity, same thing. Both talk about the lessons of multiple lives, but it feels like 'paradise' may have come in as either a simplification or as commercialization. Way greater lure with that than having to grind through multiple lifetimes to reach that ultimate clarity.
@AudioMachina22 @Cyberdevil @Cyberdevil I know everyone has potential to reach God though... and that basically makes you God-like. But it's not an easy journey. Truth is very painful to deal with.
Mmm. God really is subjective. That is true. And what's true...
May you manage the journey that gets you where you want to be though; maybes you God-like in every potential connotation of the word!
@Cyberdevil Paradise is our common destination. That's what we strive for, every single moment in our lives. Nirvana
Though expectations thereof seem to differ as much as the definitions do...
I'd be nice with paradise, but realistically, I'd like to learn to perceive this world more as such than I'd like to focus on getting there when I die. Cause you know. Who knows where you really go. In the end this world's what we make it too, just like whatever we're due if there is another layer to this existence.
what the hell is going on here...
There is no truth in the natural universe. Only shared delusions through perception and byproducts of empiricism during heightened senses of coherency. There is a truth in the universe that lies beyond our perception. While what we perceive may be a delusion, there must be a tangible substrate to experience perception to begin with. Did God create gravity or is gravity God? I assert that none of this matters. If you believed you were in a simulation, how would you act differently?
Ponderings and reflections of existential sort. :)
There is no truth in the universe, I know. Acute or curved, rhymes don't... not sure how it went after that. Shared delusions hmm, interesting way to look at the way we perceive the world and what matters innit. Scientific breakthroughs that give root to 'proof' it becomes difficult to dispute for anyone who later questions, like it's no longer a constantly evolving system observations and best guesses based on what we believe we know but almost as unquestionable as religious scripture? Indeed that's the big question, chicken or egg...
I believe I would act differently if I knew. I'd be disillusioned if I knew I was. If I had a strong enough conviction that I wasn't I'd be able to focus all peripheral tasks with all the more ease. That seems like the main perk religion: ease of mind. Benefits of brainwashing that be: you get a clean brain.
Am somewhat baffled at how many words I managed to somehow skip in typing the below though, like there was some other entity steering my hand hmm, or a computer with a life of its own, something a roam...
@rocknight1991 don't be sad though. :) We're just pondering purpose and all, the eternal question... there's no real answer, this is just the stage at which our ponderings currently rest.
That 'There is no truth in the universe, I know. Acute or curved, rhymes don't... ' bit was in reference to the song lyrics in a collab we did earlier btw, inside joke/reference thing, the mood's not really so dark here.
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@Cyberdevil Not really, but i'll look into it.
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I see you managed it. :) The deletion at least. Finna take me a while...