weirdway

70 readers

1 users here now

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."

OVERVIEW

This is a community dedicated to discussing subjective idealism and its implications. For a more detailed explanation, please take a look at our vision statement.

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

syncretik

Scew

Weekly Discussion Thread: Week 1 (www.reddit.com)

submitted 1 year ago by syncretik to c/weirdway

36 comments fedilink hide all child comments

This forum is primarily dedicated to higher quality posts and discussions. Those are welcome from everyone but will be filtered by the moderators. In order to foster more discussion, we have decided to start a weekly stickied discussion thread for the subreddit. This discussion thread is a place for people to post things that are more casual regarding subjective idealism, and things that are more exploratory. Here is a place for individuals to propose ideas and ask questions and figure out subjective idealism.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] syncretik 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Have you tried experimenting to see if you can influence others in a unilateral sense? It would be interesting to see if there is resistance to certain suggestions/commands which could possibly point to whether they are "external" or "internal", if that makes sense. I have had several experiences that either highlights others susceptibility to suggestion or that they are "internal" in a solipsistic sense. I tend to get hung up on the consequences, or "what will happen if", though this is due to my not, as of yet, examining these aspects.

Originally commented by u/Dont_Even_Trip on 2017-07-07 08:10:20 (djvitdn)

[–] syncretik 1 points 1 year ago

Well, after some consideration, I think internalist/externalist isn't a good distinction. SI is all internalist. Better to refer to it as the continuum of how deeply things are buried in one's othering subconscious, I think.

But you could test to see your default state of mind currently by seeing how easy or difficult it is to consciously modify some given thing with magic/your will. Of course, you can dig something up out of your subconscious or bury it deeper if you'd like as well as test where they're at right now.

Originally commented by u/AesirAnatman on 2017-07-08 04:14:55 (djwvljf)

[–] syncretik 1 points 1 year ago

Have you tried experimenting to see if you can influence others in a unilateral sense?

A good safe example of this would be to heal someone's body without them knowing or wanting to be healed.

However, whatever you find out, who would you share it with? :)

Originally commented by u/mindseal on 2017-07-07 17:36:17 (djw68s2)