• InternetLefty [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    The latest internet spiritualism fads seem to be so invested in a no-rules type of spirituality that is ultimately very solipsistic. I think it’s a result of our late capitalist isolation - some people want to push back against it but others fully embrace it. The idea that you can create a whole different reality based solely on your OWN decisions where other people are essentially just objects in your new reality while you maintain subjectivity is very solipsistic. 21st century cults are reflective of our new stay-at-home reality - why go to the compound with the rest of your Brothers and Sisters? Stay at home, microdose mushrooms and colloidal silver, and have your cult delivered to you over the Internet!

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    I can’t even dunk on shit like this it just makes me sad. I so understand just wanting to be in another world and hoping beyond hope that you’ll just one day wake up where it’s better and not hell world

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    People who have no connection to material reality will make up all kinds of bullshit ideologies and world views.

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    Believe it or not it also happens whenever you jerk off. Your alternate reality version jerked off to something much less disgusting.

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      Reminds me of this subreddit I came across once called /r/twinflames. As far as I can tell it’s like the concept of a “soul mate.” I was introduced to it by a user posting about how their life sucks because their “partner” or something (I can’t remember what word they used) won’t spend time with them. And everyone was like “dude this person wants nothing to do with you leave them alone” and I checked their post history and it was full of this twin flames stuff where they had convinced themselves they had some kind of supernatural connection with some random person who literally did not even want to be friends with them. After a little bit of pushback from people outside that sub they deleted their entire account. Probably made another one and just hang around in the creepy echo chamber after that.

      (Oh god one of the top posts right now mentions shifting, there’s a connection scared seriously though this stuff is freaky)

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    7 months ago

    i hate that i already knew about this because a relative got really into it like a bit over 6 months ago or so, tbf she’s also 13 and realised it was bullshit after like two weeks so i think she can be forgiven

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    shifting is moving your consciousness from one reality, the one your currently in, to a reality that you want to be in.

    Manifest destiny.

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    I’m reading their FAQ and it’s pretty crank. The thing I’ve noticed is that everyone has a desired reality (DR) but since it’s extraordinarily unlikely that people will share the same DR due to differences in what they consciously and subconsciously desire, the vast majority of DR would be populated by clones with only the shifter as the “real” conscious agent, which is pretty depressing. Almost nothing that happens in the DR transfers over to current reality (CR), which makes the DR pretty pointless outside of experiencing a particular psychedelic experience or, as I suspect, as a form of escapism and coping in a harsh reality. Something bad happens in CR, you shift to your DR as your clone in CR eats shit, and you shift back to CR after the dust has settled.

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    sorry if this is against the rules but what is this community for? i don’t know what a chapo, vaush, or nautilism means, the sidebar isn’t much help either.

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      This is the biggest online community about reality shifting. We are desperately trying to shift into the reality in which Hilary Clinton is the president planet-hillary

    • Ho_Chi_Chungus [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      You wound up in the weirdo commie corner of the internet. Exit is back down the hallway where you came, second door from the left. If you’d like to stay, there’s a Leninist literature study session in room 3B that starts in 20 minutes

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      This is the de facto general purpose community on hexbear. Named after the subreddit the site spawned from, and the podcast titled Citations Needed.

      Please keep in mind that funny-clown-hammer is a bannable offense.

    • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      This comm is mostly used for stuff that doesn’t fit into other comms and shitposting. Hexbear was originally called chapo.chat because it was founded by refugees from when Reddit banned the chapotraphouse sub, which is where this comm gets its name

      Vaush is a really shitty politics and debate streamer. Anti-natalism is the idea that it is immoral to have children.

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      ChapoTrapHouse is a fan community for the Citations Needed podcast. Vaush is an internet personality who lobbies NATO to let him fuck children. Natulism is a 28 year old thoroughbred racing horse from Australia that had 10 wins across 53 races, winning a combined half a million australian dollareedoos.

    • VHS [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      this is just our catch-all general comm on hexbear. named for Chapo Trap House the podcast. “Anti-nautilism” should be “anti-natalism”. Vaush (yuck) is a disgusting creep, US politics twitch streamer, and we got sick of hearing/talking about him

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      chapotraphouse is a podcast that quite a few people on this instance like because hexbear was initially set up as on online version of r/chapotraphouse after it got banned on reddit for “promoting violence” after the mods and a large portion of the users said that it was a good thing that John Brown killed confederate slaveowners. This comm became the general comm for hexbear a few years ago, and the rules reflect things that have caused arguments in the past. Vaush is a streamer that is considered quite controversial in leftist circles and is generally disliked by the user base here, and anti-natalism is the belief that its morally wrong to have children which is controversial because a lot of the defenders of anti natalism often accidentally use eco fascist concepts to justify their beliefs.

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      Imagine if some people who used to be on somethingawful or /pol/ on 4chan until roughly the shia le bouf HE WILL NOT DIVIDE US saga, did not go /completely/ insane and eventually ended up on lemmy.

      That is my best guess so far.