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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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OK, so I am watching a video of a person that once in a while I like to watch. And what I gradually realized is that this notion of "a video" is quite illusory. So my idea of a video is that it's something recorded in the past. Since it's from the past, it's not alive. It has to be dead. Except as I am watching it, for some reason I feel like this video is too alive. Conceptually I "know" it's dead but it feels like it's not dead at all. It's a subtle feeling that develops as I watch the video.

Then at one point my attention drifts off and I start looking at some other thumbnails on the right side, and the video says something like, "What? Is it boring now?" The video was talking to me in real time.

Then later on, in the last part or maybe one before last, he started talking about this life (the video was about rebirth) and he started immediately jumping to age 13 or so. And I was mentally saying to the video, "No, I want to hear what happened when you were 4." And, he stops, and says (paraphrased), "OK, so you want to know how I was when I was a kid?" And then he tells me how it was when he was a kid.

Yes, so I can apparently sometimes talk to videos and the videos talk to me in a way that the videos are not conceptually supposed to. This was very interesting and just a tiny bit creepy. But of course I understand what's going on. You see, when I watch the video, I'm not watching anything from the past. My subconscious mind is projecting the video in real time, right now, and makes it look like it's coming from the past. That's why it can talk to me and I can talk to it. It's a nice illusion. Is it not?

This completes my post. I realize some of you will not be happy unless I post a link to the video. So here it is. It's the first one out of 6. Who knows. Maybe this video will also talk to you. I don't know.

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[–] syncretik 1 points 1 year ago

of course we can do this trick in reverse

This has happened to me before and it was very disconcerting. It made it feel as if I was talking to myself and only using them as a frame to put one side of the dialogue on. Just thinking about it is uncomfortable.

Originally commented by u/Dont_Even_Trip on 2016-10-15 11:43:31 (d8sixyl)