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weird (adj.)

c. 1400,

• "having power to control fate", from wierd (n.), from Old English wyrd "fate, chance, fortune; destiny; the Fates," literally "that which comes,"

• from Proto-Germanic wurthiz (cognates: Old Saxon wurd, Old High German wurt "fate," Old Norse urðr "fate, one of the three Norns"),

• from PIE wert- "to turn, to wind," (cognates: German werden, Old English weorðan "to become"),

• from root wer- (3) "to turn, bend" (see versus).

• For sense development from "turning" to "becoming," compare phrase turn into "become."

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I just saw an "impossible" visual phenomenon. (www.reddit.com)

submitted 1 year ago by syncretik to c/weirdway

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So I was relaxing while leaning back in my chair, a significant distance away from the monitor, and I saw something that should have been "physically" impossible.

I have nearsightedness and I now wear a deliberately weak prescription glasses so that I can practice my eyesight (I'm am a bit lazy about it though, so I end up not really practicing all that much, but that's the logic behind my deliberately weaker than needed prescription here).

So what I saw was very clear text on a background of fuzzy text, which is extremely strange. I mean, the text should either be fuzzy or clear but not both at once, which makes zero "physical" sense. However I saw very clear text as though overlaid on top of the fuzzy gray stuff that would have been produced by the nearsighted perception of that same text.

From the POV of subjective idealism what I saw isn't surprising, because what I am looking into isn't some external object, but a state of my own inner expectation/will. Since when I am looking out I am not literally looking outside myself, but I am merely examining the state of my world-building will, then of course this can be rendered in pretty much arbitrary ways and what I see doesn't need to abide physical limitations.

All in all this is a relatively minor phenomenon, but it's kind of curious, so I decided to make a note of it here.

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[–] syncretik 1 points 1 year ago

Does the thought "Why am I doing this to myself?" ever cross your mind when you struggle with your eyesight?

Never. I fully understand my condition.

What does make your experience go rogue? Of course, it's you.

If I disown something, of course it's me who is disowning it. However, what happens to an experience in a disowned state? I will no longer feel like it's my doing. That's the whole point of disowning to begin with, to get a sense of something happening as though on its own. It's not on its own, but is experienced as though it is, and so for many (not all, but many) intents and purposes, it can be treated as something independent.

An omnipotent being doesn't need to actually go through "simulations".

Need is not the only motivational force.

I don't want to argue with you. It seems you're ideologically charged.

Let me ask you one more time, why are you here on this sub? What's your motivation for being here?

Originally commented by u/mindseal on 2018-03-13 05:41:45 (dvl6kjv)