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RE: I wish to feel superior to reality (atheism)
August 1, 2014 at 9:26 pm
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(August 1, 2014 at 9:21 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: (August 1, 2014 at 9:16 pm)Mozart Link Wrote: No, but only because I have chosen to change (I used to be interested only in playing videogames, but now I am interested in composing music). But in a way, yes I am because I still have this fantasy-inspired perception just as I did when I was younger (actually, it is much greater now).
Your choice to change had absolutely no outside input at all? Your music has no inspiration, say from your namesake?
Can you fantasize being wealthy and use that to buy a Stradivarius? Since I do not care what others think of me and never allow that to change who I am as a person, then any personality change I go through is from my own choice only. As for my inspiration for my music, it is all from my own inspiration of fantasy and desires and such and not from what others think of me and who I should be.
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RE: I wish to feel superior to reality (atheism)
August 1, 2014 at 9:30 pm
Do you pay rent, or are your living quarters provided free of charge?
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RE: I wish to feel superior to reality (atheism)
August 3, 2014 at 7:51 am
(August 1, 2014 at 7:56 am)Blackout Wrote: I'm pretty sure the quote is about being too attached to fantasy (gods, religions and afterlives, mysticism and spiritual activity). I'm an anime fan and I'm pretty attached to reality.
I'm pretty sure my intuition is 100 times better than yours.
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RE: I wish to feel superior to reality (atheism)
August 3, 2014 at 9:37 am
(August 3, 2014 at 7:51 am)BlackMason Wrote: (August 1, 2014 at 7:56 am)Blackout Wrote: I'm pretty sure the quote is about being too attached to fantasy (gods, religions and afterlives, mysticism and spiritual activity). I'm an anime fan and I'm pretty attached to reality.
I'm pretty sure my intuition is 100 times better than yours.
Your intuition is not correct. So you're saying for someone to want to live in a fantasy world he/she most likely is an anime fan? 
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RE: I wish to feel superior to reality (atheism)
August 3, 2014 at 12:08 pm
(August 3, 2014 at 9:37 am)Blackout Wrote: Your intuition is not correct. So you're saying for someone to want to live in a fantasy world he/she most likely is an anime fan?
First I'll start by giving you the play back from the horses mouth:
(August 1, 2014 at 1:36 pm)Mozart Link Wrote: Yes, this is perhaps the main (and maybe only reason) that I feel this way is because I am, in fact, an anime fan. I not only embrace the world of fantasy and anime and make it a part of me, but I also embrace the god-like characters I perceive as awesome and make them a part of me.
Then I'll close with an explanation of why you are wrong. I am not making a claim that all people that who want to live in a fantasy are anime fans. For me to make that claim would be absurd. For you to think that is...well I'm gonna try play nice so I won't hurt your feelings.
My analysis was strictly based on this case. I read what the man wrote and I started think. This thinking led me to suspect a few things. Among these things was anime. Turns out I hit the nail on the head. You shouldn't be trying to prove me wrong. You should be asking me for my autograph. You should also stop projecting.
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RE: I wish to feel superior to reality (atheism)
August 3, 2014 at 12:29 pm
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Quote:First I'll start by giving you the play back from the horses mouth:
You'll notice that after you made your suspicion clear no one was sure if he was in fact an anime fan. He said that AFTER I replied to you so the relevance of that quote is zero.
Quote:Then I'll close with an explanation of why you are wrong. I am not making a claim that all people that who want to live in a fantasy are anime fans. For me to make that claim would be absurd. For you to think that is...well I'm gonna try play nice so I won't hurt your feelings.
Hurt my feelings? Why? Play nice?
Quote:My analysis was strictly based on this case. I read what the man wrote and I started think. This thinking led me to suspect a few things. Among these things was anime. Turns out I hit the nail on the head. You shouldn't be trying to prove me wrong. You should be asking me for my autograph. You should also stop projecting.
I don't think you're wrong or right. I was just saying we weren't sure of what the cause was. I though about anime too but not only, videogames were also in my mind, in fact I spent a phase of my teenager years like the OP because of videogames.
It's true that anime isn't the only cause, but it could be, I was merely pointing out before the OP made the statement that he was an anime fan you were already assuming it was because of it
As an anime fan, anime has made me accept reality more, not run away from it. Just like it happens with video games.
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RE: I wish to feel superior to reality (atheism)
August 3, 2014 at 3:25 pm
I think you should want to believe in God only if he exists.
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RE: I wish to feel superior to reality (atheism)
August 3, 2014 at 3:47 pm
But I'm right so does it matter? Me and my assumption are right. So what's your point? That I shouldn't have been confident enough to speak on my hunch? If so why?
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RE: I wish to feel superior to reality (atheism)
August 3, 2014 at 5:05 pm
(August 3, 2014 at 3:47 pm)BlackMason Wrote: But I'm right so does it matter? Me and my assumption are right. So what's your point? That I shouldn't have been confident enough to speak on my hunch? If so why?
BlackMason, your assumption was right. I was merely pointing out it may not have been correct, considering when you made your guess Mozart Link hadn't yet provided us with the exact cause. And I didn't think about it because anime has never made me sweep away from reality except when I'm watching it... Or do you intend to add anything else? You talked about offending me...
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RE: I wish to feel superior to reality (atheism)
August 3, 2014 at 5:42 pm
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Although when I have feelings of empowerment and such which are all derived from anime (because I always think of the characters, music, environments, etc. and feel empowered by these things even in my normal daily life) the cause of my reasonings in my posts here and such might not be from just simply anime and just might simply be my own attitude and thinking and/or my own attitude and perceptions that I chose to gain from anime. But I do know that there are many characters in anime that have a sense of superiority and power and seek god-like powers and enlightenment and such and I am inspired by this.
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