###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 of weirdway and posting guidelines.
This community, a mirror of a forgotten quiet subreddit, is dedicated to deeply exploring our own minds using a framework of subjective idealism. We gather here to explore the profound and mind-bending implications of that knowledge on daily life. This community is thus a practico-theoretical one with a slight preference toward theory.
Here you’ll find posts about subjective idealism, lucidly dreaming while waking, and the unusual states of volition.
This is a place for dedicated parties to throw rational yet mind-bending and unconventional ideas at one another as we seek to expand our understanding of subjective idealism. If someone feels particularly moved one can describe experiences, especially if they are strange, or, ahem, weird, while tying those experiences into a subjective idealist way of understanding things. It is also a place for deep introspection, so a post where a poster dives into their own conceptual maps and the gnarly twists and turns of their own mindset is a very welcome post.
Our community here is not about: proving subjective idealism, disproving physicalism, or pitting subjective idealism against transcendental or other types of idealism. We do not engage in polemics.
We can still make posts critical of physicalism, but the intent isn’t to convince physicalists. The intent of such posts is to allow us to examine our own physicalist hangovers and hangups and to grow. Most of us here have a prior history of physicalistic habit and it makes no sense to ignore that. So the audience for our posts critical of physicalism will be our peers and not some ideologically hostile physicalists.
Please see our vision statement for more details.