You might like to check out the story of Jill Bolte Taylor. A brain scientist who lost contact with her left hemisphere due to a stroke. Then later when she had healed wrote a book about it all.
Interestingly a lot of what she (and you?) experienced is what you experience during Awakening/Realization.
Wait, there's good religions??
I just looked. Is there a "me" here when I'm not thinking? Is there anything here?
Yes, TRaSH is the way! Come my brother, the seas are ours!
Drop your panties sir William I cannot wait 'til lunchtime!
"The beatings will continue until morale improves!"
I know it's just a comic but I still disagree with it's message. Phones are essentially mini-computers connected to the Internet which has the potential for endless dopamine-inducing entertainment and we carry them around with us 24/7. A very powerful dopamine-pump, with us around the clock, every day. This has actually never happened before in history.
Homemade Beef bourguignon eaten and now we're continuing our pajama-sofa-Gilmore-Girls-marathon. It's the cosiest New Years ever, everyone's full and very happy. Cats, kids and spouse. โค๏ธ
The difference is time. With time a federated Threads will build it's own massive library of content, suck in it's own users and then slowly make all of that proprietary and locked down from the rest of the fediverse.
It's a long con that's been done several times by big corporations.
De federate now and that content and those users will have to choose now. Meta or fediverse. The scales are still uneven, but less uneven than in that future.
I'm nothing. There's no separate self here, just thoughts. There's no separate self there either. So what is remembering what? ๐