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Dream meanings

MissUtilisMissUtilis
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Sometimes I feel weird in that, no, my dreams are not laden with veiled symbolism. If I'm having anxieties, then those anxieties are going to manifest themselves in a straightforward, self-evident way. None of this "showing up to something important naked" shit.
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  • Obā-sanObā-san

    nobodys dreams are filled with veiled symbolism that's just freud bullshit
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
    naney said:

    nobodys dreams are filled with veiled symbolism that's just freud bullshit


  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    I've had the naked dreams before but usually it takes the form of "oh, I'm not wearing clothes this time. oh well."
  • Imipolex GImipolex G
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    I often have dreams about being lost in a large building, which might be some kind of symbolism, or just the result of playing too many games like Zelda, Metroid, etc.
  • TachyonTachyon
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Imipolex G-cup said:

    I often have dreams about being lost in a large building, which might be some kind of symbolism, or just the result of playing too many games like Zelda, Metroid, etc.

    same
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    "Lost in large building" dreams are fun! You get to explore, and if anyone tries to stop you, just say "I'm the Princess Regnant, you dunce, I can do as I please!"
  • TachyonTachyon
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    i never get that part.

    But then, rarely does anyone try to stop me.
  • TachyonTachyon
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    also the 'large building' is usually somewhere i know, supposedly, but the layout is completely different
  • CorvinaCorvina
    Vampire Lady of Corvidia

    (The other Jane)
    My most recurring nightmare is being stuck at a bus stop next to a dusty highway in the middle of summer and the bus never comes
  • Imipolex GImipolex G
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    Waiting for the Godot Bus
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
    I am writing a rationalist version of Waiting For Godot, in which Vladimir and Estragon get tired of waiting, and create a Friendly AI Godot, and then use it to become High IQ Rationalist Success Stories-someone on Less Wrong, probably
  • TachyonTachyon
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    LessWrong has undergone a weird evolution for me

    from horribly intimidating, to kinda interesting but confusing, to unpleasant but amusing and mildly intriguing nonetheless, to bile fascination, to just gross and boring
  • KlinotaxisKlinotaxis
    kill living beings
    similar unfortunately
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
    I never bought into that shit, even during the heyday of Desertopa and Nornagest.
  • CorvinaCorvina
    Vampire Lady of Corvidia

    (The other Jane)
    Klinotaxis said:

    similar unfortunately


  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life

    ooooh dreamweaver
  • CalicaCalica
    Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.
    Odradek said:

    I never bought into that shit, even during the heyday of Desertopa and Nornagest.

    at this point I mostly remember Desertopa for claiming that if babies went to heaven, the right thing to do would be to kill them at birth
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
    Calica said:

    Odradek said:

    I never bought into that shit, even during the heyday of Desertopa and Nornagest.

    at this point I mostly remember Desertopa for claiming that if babies went to heaven, the right thing to do would be to kill them at birth
    I'm sure it's on some crowning moment of win page somewhere
  • Obā-sanObā-san

    ...ok the first time I read that I was like lol what an edgelord but the more I think about that I'm not seeing how it is wrong tbh
  • Obā-sanObā-san

    of course that does not preclude said poster that I don't remember from being an edgelord
  • MissUtilisMissUtilis
    BEWARE OF GRRL!
    Calica said:

    Odradek said:

    I never bought into that shit, even during the heyday of Desertopa and Nornagest.

    at this point I mostly remember Desertopa for claiming that if babies went to heaven, the right thing to do would be to kill them at birth
    I don't remember this at all

    I apparently missed out on a lot of shit
  • MissUtilisMissUtilis
    BEWARE OF GRRL!
    then again I do remember Korgmeister claiming that we need to euthanize anyone diagnosed with ASPD
  • Obā-sanObā-san

    well I mean obviously killing babies is wrong

    but like, a similar and less edgelordy train of logic would imply that the best thing to do as a person is to be born and then just end up dying asap

    which is clearly absurd
  • Obā-sanObā-san

    I'm missing something here
  • CalicaCalica
    Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.
    naney said:

    of course that does not preclude said poster that I don't remember from being an edgelord

    he was really anti-religious and trying to make people who believed in compassionate versions of christianity uncomfortable
  • Obā-sanObā-san

    I get that
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
    I hated him so much.
  • Obā-sanObā-san

    ok that's good now help me figure out how he is wrong
  • Obā-sanObā-san

    I mean beyond the active infanticide
  • Obā-sanObā-san

    this is exactly the sort of thing that makes religions in general super confusing to me
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
    naney said:

    ok that's good now help me figure out how he is wrong

    I didn't bring it up, Poni did.

    I don't really feel like dissecting his take on theology
  • MissUtilisMissUtilis
    BEWARE OF GRRL!
    doesn't everybody have a basic right to life
  • MissUtilisMissUtilis
    BEWARE OF GRRL!
    because I think for most of us "the active infanticide" is the long and short of its wrongness
  • Obā-sanObā-san

    Miss Utilis said:

    doesn't everybody have a basic right to life

    yes but if you die before you fuck up you're getting infinite reward

    so if you kill a baby who would have gone to hell before it fucks up you have saved it.

    which makes no sense
  • Salix BabylonikaSalix Babylonika
    https://i.imgur.com/IoGc2jA.jpg
    The reason it's a non-argument is because there's so many different conceptions of what heaven is and how you get there that you'd have to refute it like ten different ways depending on what you actually believe.

    You have to make a ton of assumptions about what Christians believe for it to be "the right thing to do".
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
    Why is it that supposedly intelligent, moral people are the ones who want to enslave themselves to an unintelligent, amoral process? Antinatalist Antelope
  • Salix BabylonikaSalix Babylonika
    https://i.imgur.com/IoGc2jA.jpg
    For one thing not all Christians believe that children are born innocent, that's mostly a Catholic belief, other denominations believe unbaptized infants who die go to Hell or Purgatory, in which case active infanticide would be the exact wrong thing to do.
  • Obā-sanObā-san

    I get that most Christians don't believe that, I'm just talking about this one premise of how reality could function
  • Salix BabylonikaSalix Babylonika
    https://i.imgur.com/IoGc2jA.jpg
    naney said:

    I get that most Christians don't believe that, I'm just talking about this one premise of how reality could function

    I am not sure what you're talking about.
  • CalicaCalica
    Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.
    Planet Jane said:

    For one thing not all Christians believe that children are born innocent, that's mostly a Catholic belief, other denominations believe unbaptized infants who die go to Hell or Purgatory, in which case active infanticide would be the exact wrong thing to do.

    I thought the Catholics say or used to say that unbaptized babies go to Limbo or something?
  • Salix BabylonikaSalix Babylonika
    https://i.imgur.com/IoGc2jA.jpg
    Calica said:

    Planet Jane said:

    For one thing not all Christians believe that children are born innocent, that's mostly a Catholic belief, other denominations believe unbaptized infants who die go to Hell or Purgatory, in which case active infanticide would be the exact wrong thing to do.

    I thought the Catholics say or used to say that unbaptized babies go to Limbo or something?
    well Catholics are bad at agreeing, but I was always told they go to Heaven.
  • TachyonTachyon
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    i remember at the time i thought Desertopa was being incredibly clever and witty with that argument and that he had proven irrefutably the silliness of that belief by exposing the inconsistency of holding it and not killing a million babies
  • Obā-sanObā-san
    edited 2015-07-08 22:45:12

    Planet Jane said:

    naney said:

    I get that most Christians don't believe that, I'm just talking about this one premise of how reality could function

    I am not sure what you're talking about.
    the premise that unbaptised infants go to heaven.

    the problem here is that that said premise leads to a blatantly immoral and rather silly conclusion (kill all the babies), and in the other premise you have a god who sends small babies to hell, which is obviously morally repugnant and not exactly the behavior of the sort of god most good people would consider worshipping?
  • OdradekOdradek
    edited 2015-07-08 22:45:44
    My dreams exceed my real life
    Well now he wouldn't make that argument, because killing all babies would not preserve the good health and sanctity of the White European race culture
  • TachyonTachyon
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    i remember someone pointed out that if you committed infanticide you would probably go to hell yourself, and he said 'that seems like an awfully selfish reason not to kill a million babies'

    iirc that did indeed get posted to MoW
  • TachyonTachyon
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Odradek said:

    Well now he wouldn't make that argument, because killing all babies would not preserve the good health and sanctity of the White European race culture

    he's one of those ones?
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
    Probably.
  • TachyonTachyon
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    well, i wouldn't like to make that assumption about anybody

    he never seemed like the reactionary type to me back on tvt, though that was years ago now
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
    I don't feel bad about making it about Less Wrong peeps, because they let the fucking nazis into their clubhouse.
  • CalicaCalica
    Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.
    I'd be a little wary about calling Jewish people nazis even so but whatever
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