You dont exist!

[neeeel]

I think this is very relevant to traders who suffer from being emotionally involved with their trading.
Did you know that you dont exist? Yes, "your" body exists, "your" thoughts and feelings exist, but the thing, the entity, that you think of as you, living life, its not there. It doesnt exist. Its just an illusion. Its not "your" body, they are not "your" thoughts. It just life living.

Anyone got any thoughts/questions on this?

[Mickey Pearce]

Have you just watched "Source Code" neeeel?

[neeeel]

nope, whats that?

[Mickey Pearce]

A recently released movie.

[neeeel]

oh, no, I have just seen that its true that theres no I.

[Timstertoo]

oh, no, I have just seen that its true that theres no I.

Such a teamplayer!

[PFY]

Or as Bill Hicks put it (when wishing the news would feature positive drug stories for a change)

Today, a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration--that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death. Life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather!

[neeeel]

Such a teamplayer!

what?
I dont get it. Im simply saying that, you, and i , dont exist.

[neeeel]

Or as Bill Hicks put it (when wishing the news would feature positive drug stories for a change)

Yes, exactly, but is it true? or is there a you, a self, in reality?

[Cran]

I exist but everyone else is just figments of my imagination...

Or maybe you exist and I am a figment of yours

Either way, you just have to look at all the crazy messed up shit happening in the UK in the last 10 years (probably longer) to realise that none of this can possibly be real...

It's like they said in the matrix (or somewhere) they keep screwing you over and making problems for you so that you are too busy worrying about things to have time to see that it's all make believe...

Take the red pill

I'm now off to have another imaginary beer

[shadowninja]

This isn't a reply.

[neeeel]

I exist but everyone else is just figments of my imagination...

Or maybe you exist and I am a figment of yours

Either way, you just have to look at all the crazy messed up shit happening in the UK in the last 10 years (probably longer) to realise that none of this can possibly be real...

It's like they said in the matrix (or somewhere) they keep screwing you over and making problems for you so that you are too busy worrying about things to have time to see that it's all make believe...

Take the red pill

I'm now off to have another imaginary beer

thats not what I mean at all,lol. your body( or rather the body labelled cran) exists, just as the body labelled neeeel exists. But the person, the you, the controller, the thinker of thoughts, the doer of actions, doesnt exist. Life is simply a process. Light bounces off an object( photo of girlfriend for example), enters your eye, is converted to electrical impulses, which travel through your brain by various predefined pathways, and result in a memory about the last time you were with your girlfriend. No you to think the thought, no you choosing which thought to think.

[Cran]

thats not what I mean at all,lol. your body( or rather the body labelled cran) exists, just as the body labelled neeeel exists. But the person, the you, the controller, the thinker of thoughts, the doer of actions, doesnt exist. Life is simply a process. Light bounces off an object( photo of girlfriend for example), enters your eye, is converted to electrical impulses, which travel through your brain by various predefined pathways, and result in a memory about the last time you were with your girlfriend. No you to think the thought, no you choosing which thought to think.

So how come I think things when I have my eyes shut?

[neeeel]

So how come I think things when I have my eyes shut?

Because thoughts create a feedback loop, a chain of thought. thoughts produce other thoughts, again without you to think or choose them . Also sounds, smells, tastes, and touch will have the same effect as visual stimuli.

Try thinking of a random thought. My guess is you came up with something that happened to you within the last day or two, or else your brain searched for something, found it difficult, and you looked around the room for an object to stimulate your memories. Now close your eyes and think of a random thought, about something that hasnt occured in the last week. How difficult was it?

[KOTBIIAJIbTO]

thats not what I mean at all,lol. your body( or rather the body labelled cran) exists, just as the body labelled neeeel exists.

I disagree. Bodies sometimes don't exist neither