Essay Once upon a time on internet forums, there was a Blackpiller and a Whitepiller.

[Two-jay]

Once upon a time on internet forums,
there was a Blackpiller and a Whitepiller.

The Whitepiller says:
"Just improve, adapt—
find joy in the cracks.
The system’s unfair,
but you can hack back."

The Blackpiller sneers:
"Cope. It’s all coded in bone.
Your efforts are dust—
you die alone.
Delusion. The algorithm’s set.
No gymcel grind escapes
the bone lottery’s debt."

Yet they both cope as they avoid the same thing:
the naked present, without stories.

What if you unplugged
not from the ‘pill,’
but from the need
to swallow either?

 

[cosmicx16]

Interesting formatting

 

[Myst]

Once upon a time on internet forums,
there was a Blackpiller and a Whitepiller.

The Whitepiller says:
"Just improve, adapt—
find joy in the cracks.
The system’s unfair,
but you can hack back."

The Blackpiller sneers:
"Cope. It’s all coded in bone.
Your efforts are dust—
you die alone.
Delusion. The algorithm’s set.
No gymcel grind escapes
the bone lottery’s debt."

Yet they both cope as they avoid the same thing:
the naked present, without stories.

What if you unplugged
not from the ‘pill,’
but from the need
to swallow either?

What's the point you're trying to make?

 

[Two-jay]

What's the point you're trying to make?

Don't attach too much to any ideology, knowledge, philosophy that claims to be "the truth".

 

[Myst]

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Don't attach too much to any ideology, knowledge, philosophy that claims to be "the truth".

Somewhat water to some like me but not to most, when people find something even semi-resembling *a* truth they immediately cling to it, exhibit A is the idea of pills.

 

[EYES_OF_THE_WORLD]

Somewhat water to some like me but not to most, when people find something even semi-resembling *a* truth they immediately cling to it, exhibit A is the idea of pills.

Your life and your experiences are the truth don't ever let anyone else say that's not the case.

 

[Myst]

Your life and your experiences are the truth don't ever let anyone else say that's not the case.

So what's the difference between someone who's had a horrible life and someone who's had a great one? do they share one truth about life?

 

[EYES_OF_THE_WORLD]

So what's the difference between someone who's had a horrible life and someone who's had a great one? do they share one truth about life?

Simply the environment they were in as well as the hardware (genetics) they had. I don't think they share one truth of life but I do think that for their sake, their life and the experiences they have reflect a truth of life, albeit fragmented and something not truly complete. For example, the goodlifer may never understand the. levels of despair and negative emotions one can experience as well as be unable to understand the more harsh truths of life but at the same time the horriblelifer will not be able to understand the positive emotions and general life that a goodlifer can have, and will likely become pessimistic because of this.

The reason I said

Your life and your experiences are the truth don't ever let anyone else say that's not the case.

was mostly an affirmation on the idea @twojei was stating. Obviously one should be self-critical and analyze their life to reach the truth or perhaps see a falsehood that they have originally thought was something good/bad, but in general one should put more focus on the life experiences they had rather than justify everything using one ideology or truth. This applies to any idea at all. You can think of it as putting the practical over the theoretical.

 

[Two-jay]

Simply the environment they were in as well as the hardware (genetics) they had. I don't think they share one truth of life but I do think that for their sake, their life and the experiences they have reflect a truth of life, albeit fragmented and something not truly complete. For example, the goodlifer may never understand the. levels of despair and negative emotions one can experience as well as be unable to understand the more harsh truths of life but at the same time the horriblelifer will not be able to understand the positive emotions and general life that a goodlifer can have, and will likely become pessimistic because of this.

The reason I said


was mostly an affirmation on the idea @twojei was stating. Obviously one should be self-critical and analyze their life to reach the truth or perhaps see a falsehood that they have originally thought was something good/bad, but in general one should put more focus on the life experiences they had rather than justify everything using one ideology or truth. This applies to any idea at all. You can think of it as putting the practical over the theoretical.

 

[Forecast]

Once upon a time on internet forums,
there was a Blackpiller and a Whitepiller.

The Whitepiller says:
"Just improve, adapt—
find joy in the cracks.
The system’s unfair,
but you can hack back."

The Blackpiller sneers:
"Cope. It’s all coded in bone.
Your efforts are dust—
you die alone.
Delusion. The algorithm’s set.
No gymcel grind escapes
the bone lottery’s debt."

Yet they both cope as they avoid the same thing:
the naked present, without stories.

What if you unplugged
not from the ‘pill,’
but from the need
to swallow either?

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