Sure I can effect positive change while believing the bad stuff exists only in our heads. Our heads are where we live! Of course I want people to have better illusions in their heads. For example, if Trump wins then a bunch of queer Americans will experience a subjective sensation of being oppressed. That’s horrible, so I’m asking Americans to vote for Biden.
Sure I can effect positive change while believing the bad stuff exists only in our heads
Nope. That’s literally impossible.
For example, if Trump wins then a bunch of queer Americans will experience a subjective sensation of being oppressed
Nothing subjective about it. Pretending otherwise is minimizing their real suffering and tantamount to victim blaming.
That’s horrible
So is telling victims of oppression that they’re only imagining it. Thus implying that they can just choose to stop being oppressed.
This is where your nonsense theory goes from childishly frivolous thought experiment to being actively harmful to the people whose best interests you claim to have in mind.
Okay, so the difference between what I believe, and what you’re saying I believe, is that I believe there are rules to how the mind works. You’re saying if the mind were responsible for everything, then we would all have total control over our subjective worlds because a brain never did anything a consciousness didn’t want. But I actually understand what psychology is, and that the conscious mind has its limits. Soulism is about gaining the tools to overcome those limits through hard work, not about instantly changing everything with wishes. Now, are you willing to accept the premise that the mind has limits, or are you going to continue along this assertion that soulism recognises no barriers to overcoming oppression?
Sure I can effect positive change while believing the bad stuff exists only in our heads. Our heads are where we live! Of course I want people to have better illusions in their heads. For example, if Trump wins then a bunch of queer Americans will experience a subjective sensation of being oppressed. That’s horrible, so I’m asking Americans to vote for Biden.
Nope. That’s literally impossible.
Nothing subjective about it. Pretending otherwise is minimizing their real suffering and tantamount to victim blaming.
So is telling victims of oppression that they’re only imagining it. Thus implying that they can just choose to stop being oppressed.
This is where your nonsense theory goes from childishly frivolous thought experiment to being actively harmful to the people whose best interests you claim to have in mind.
Okay, so the difference between what I believe, and what you’re saying I believe, is that I believe there are rules to how the mind works. You’re saying if the mind were responsible for everything, then we would all have total control over our subjective worlds because a brain never did anything a consciousness didn’t want. But I actually understand what psychology is, and that the conscious mind has its limits. Soulism is about gaining the tools to overcome those limits through hard work, not about instantly changing everything with wishes. Now, are you willing to accept the premise that the mind has limits, or are you going to continue along this assertion that soulism recognises no barriers to overcoming oppression?