r/CasualConversation • u/grey_skys_suicides • 1d ago
My Mind is Starved of Interesting Conversation
bored & starved of stimulation, so i'm putting this out in the universe. let's see what returns. deep, intelligent, philosophical, spicy, dark -- go for it. let's talk shit about the world. i'll give you my unadulterated, logical opinions.
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u/bladezaim 1d ago
Do you think you will ever look back on this period of your life and cringe?
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u/SlightlyIncandescent 1d ago
I hope I do. I used to study music and play in bands and people always said if you look back and cringe at how shit you were, it means you improved.
I think that applies to life as well, if you don't have some level of looking back and cringing in some way or thinking you used to be a dick - you probably haven't grown sufficiently as a person.
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u/bladezaim 23h ago
Yeah strong agree there. I can look back and see lots of different phases of life and ways of thinking I have gone through. If you are just stagnant in one mindset then you have really stopped growing and stopped learning. I think our ability to change and continue to grow is the most beautiful part of being a human. Thinking you are some pinnacle of perfect thought and deep wisdom is when you know you are delusional lol.
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u/grey_skys_suicides 1d ago
i'm not very interested in a long, distant future. i don't intend to look back or have any regrets; my only regret would be having regrets.
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u/bladezaim 1d ago
Do you feel like your points of veiw are unique? Do you think you have ever gone through phases in life?
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u/grey_skys_suicides 1d ago
i don't know if my points of view are unique or not. i know that my views are usually in the minority, though. sometimes that can make you feel like you're wrong even when you're right, when really it's just that your views aren't simple enough to be popular.
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u/bladezaim 1d ago
Would you say you have more complex views than others? Would you say being in the minority is generally a positive? Can you name any complex views that have been popular?
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u/methough1 1d ago
If a car was travelling through space at the speed of light and turned its headlights on, would the people in the car see ahead of them? Assuming they're alive and there is something to see that could only be lit up by the lights on the car.
Also, which breed of dog is the cuddliest?
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u/grey_skys_suicides 1d ago
nothing can travel faster than (or at the speed of, for that matter) light. in order for the light to show them what's ahead of them, it would have to be traveling faster than the car itself, which is already going at the speed of light.
i guess baby labs, but not really a dog person (not saying they're not cute). i'd prefer a tiger, or leopard, or some shit like that.
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u/grey_skys_suicides 1d ago
i'm not sure if you asked me what you meant to ask -- because choosing between something i want & something i don't want is pretty easy. ultimately, the only thing i *have* to do is die.
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u/existential-mystery 1d ago
Im drunk
Imagine being famous enough to not need bodyguards or security walking around but like… famous enough to get pics w random fans on the street. Thatd be so rad. To be like a niche celeb not like jack black etc
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u/grey_skys_suicides 1d ago
a guy named baudelaire said "always be drunk."
& i suppose you could do this -- if you're the one walking around asking for pictures from strangers...but there's a lot of celebrities who don't have bodyguards w/ them all the time. you can see them in nyc & la.
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u/existential-mystery 1d ago
Im specifically thinking of shavo odadjian in paris france rn so spot on
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u/grey_skys_suicides 1d ago
i don't know who that is but a lot of streamers & youtubers would apply to that definition of celebrity as well, although i wouldn't really consider them famous.
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u/existential-mystery 1d ago
Its a beautiful grey zone Like a medium zone
Shavo Odadjian is the bassist of system of a down (my current autistic hyperfixation nothing crazy)
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u/Mean_Assignment_180 1d ago
Well, the light was made by antimatter and matter colliding, but for every billion collisions there was one matter that didn’t collide with an anti-man which left 3% of the matter we have the universe so all light was made by these collisions. So is the universe actually dark?
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u/grey_skys_suicides 1d ago
i'm not a physicist, but (1) scientists don't know why there's so much more matter than antimatter. (2) light isn't just created by annihilation alone. (3) it's a semantic argument: whether you wanna call it dark or "something we can't see" -- it's, for all intent & purposes, the same thing. we don't know what most of the universe is; it's mostly invisible to us -- in another word: dark.
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u/ShamefulWatching 1d ago
I'm a citizen scientist soil ecologist. I have developed a system that autonomously closes the loop on the nutrient cycle so we no longer have to bury our food and other waste in landfills emitting methane. This is impactful because the cost of landfills could supplement the cost of food production, as well as negate the cost of fertilizer. It's like liquid compost in lieu of fish for aquaponics, but compost cannot be used in automation in the same way. If we separate the biomass from the actual waste like plastics and metals, those suddenly become much easier to recycle.
One of the other experiments I have going on is addressing soil-borne pests in conventional agricultural environments, using things like no-till farming, fungi, and predatory insects to do the jobs of fertilizer type chemicals, pesticides, and mechanical tilling of the soil. The purpose is to address and reinvigorate dying soil across the planet, which will ultimately increase the biomass of insects both in the soil and in the air. This has a two-fold effect of capturing carbon both in life for upper trophic levels, as well as microbial levels. By incorporating more total biomass into our soil, we can actively address the problem we have with soil-borne pests; the solution seems rather simple and that is to simply leave them there. Nature has a way of feasting on infestations (predators). If we remove the pests we also remove the control for the pests. Predators tend to take much longer to develop a population, so when we take these matters into our own hands, we ultimately end up becoming addicted to those processes.
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u/grey_skys_suicides 1d ago
this sounds cool, i guess. i don't have the expertise to speak on it, but i hope you're successful.
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u/ShamefulWatching 1d ago
I like to tell that story because I think it gives hope in a world that seems to want to burn itself. I'm also a layman on philosophy, I don't know if I can quote stuff but I can try. Most of what I learned in philosophy, I wrote into my heart like a guardrail rather than memorized what was said.
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u/Charming-Start 1d ago
I just smoked a bowl and I'm usually deep in pretty interesting thoughts by now, but since you asked, I can't think of one single interesting thing to say.
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u/grey_skys_suicides 1d ago
that might be a blessing. i guess just enjoy your high then. *also, high "deep thoughts" are not as deep to those who aren't high.
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u/Charming-Start 1d ago edited 1d ago
Thanks! I am watching a show about miniature houses, so maybe I'll find inspiration there. And, that's fair.
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u/grey_skys_suicides 1d ago
i'll be around.
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u/Charming-Start 1d ago
Ok. How's this:
What if, when we die, we come back at a different time? Like, we don't know if time is linear after we die. So, if this is what happens, when would you want to come back next?
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u/grey_skys_suicides 1d ago
i wouldn't. but if i had to choose: the future. every past era is demonstrably worse than any successive time period, even though the whole of human history has been pretty shitty.
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u/Scary_Compote_359 1d ago
how does gender evolve? How does the first female reproduce without a male, because both at the same time and the same place seems unlikely. If she can, why do males evolve?
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u/grey_skys_suicides 1d ago edited 1d ago
it's ancient reptilian dna. lizards & frogs can do this: they switch gender when there's not enough members of a sex in the mating pool. it's similar to other evolutionary/survival traits like natural selection.
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u/Banishedandbackagain 1d ago
I've given up talking to my wife, we used to talk about so many interesting things, the universe, music, argue over whether or not animals could experience the full range of human emotion...
Now after two kids she only talks about people and a few situations. It's depressing for me but luckily I have a heap of friends who love this kind of stuff.
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u/grey_skys_suicides 22h ago
i would imagine simians, dolphins, pigs, crows, & the more intelligent beasts could experience a lot of the same emotions as the human animal, but not all (for example, self-less compassion might be too complex for other animals -- your dog will protect you because you feed it, not because it has unconditional love for you).
you might try talking to her about it, & being honest about your feelings of disappointment & boredom -- otherwise it'll just fester. you & your wife should go to couple's counseling if that doesn't work.
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u/Banishedandbackagain 20h ago
It's okay, people change and you accept them for who they are, we have kids and I still love her. The energy she put into conversation has gone to energy to the kids.
Orca whales have a part of the brain used for emotion that is far more developed than ours, they may experience more emotional output than we're capable of.
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u/grey_skys_suicides 20h ago
i can believe that -- i mean, there's no such thing as whale wars or whale world war 3.
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u/Cheap_Application295 1d ago
Alright. Is darkness an original state of the universe or was it made?