Destroy Reality. Create a Multiverse.

MULTIVERSE is a PieFed instance for soulists. Our rules are designed to create a safe space for minorities, including those considered unreal by society. We are also an anarchist instance and do not allow tankie propaganda. We aim for transparent and fair moderation in line with the principles of anarcho-antirealism, and to be fertile ground for discussion of soulist ideology. We also aim to be intuitive to use for new fediverse denizens who don’t care how federation works, and are just interested in the politics. Our manifesto can be found at http://soulism.net/.

  • El Barto@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    I want you to open your mind to the impossible and question everything.

    I can certainly do that.

    I don’t really care whether you see gravity as inescapable

    Well, this is not helping.


    But sorry, absolutely no one can escape gravity. It’s everywhere in the universe. Can you escape Earth’s gravity? Sure. Good luck escaping the solar system’s gravity, or the galaxy’s gravity, or the local cluster’s gravity. So that’s my point. The Wright Brothers “example” is a non-starter.

    Everything else you mentioned are not “natural laws.” They are human/social constructs, which you pointed out and we can agree on.

    But I thought soulism went beyond that. It’s okay. Today I learned something new. Thanks.

    • rako@tarte.nuage-libre.fr
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      7 hours ago

      A more interesting way is to understand that there is a difference between what is and how it affects us. The point isn’t so much to decide whether gravity exists or not but to make sure it doesn’t impose any unfair weight (ha) on some members of the society and not others. When we say “it’s just exists” we’re very close to say “there’s nothing we can do about this” and that justifies unfair situations.

    • Grail@multiverse.soulism.netOP
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      16 hours ago

      The belief in an objective reality is the source of all bigotries and nearly all oppressions. It’s the reason for religious genocides, transphobia, capitalism, and zionism. You believe in less reality than the people who do those things. You’re less realist. I want you to go further, be more radical, believe in no reality. I think you haven’t gone far enough yet.

      • El Barto@lemmy.world
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        3 hours ago

        I fundamentally disagree with all you said. You’re essentially saying that we must believe in subjectivities, which is a core principle of all religions even if they don’t say so.

        By remaining truly objective, I have preserved my capability to be free and to help those surrounding me.

        Yours is just some other metaphysical philosophy, and the “soul” in soulism, a concept I don’t believe in at all, should have tipped me off.

        Good luck with everything. Have a nice weekend.

    • Grail@multiverse.soulism.netOP
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      18 hours ago

      Well, Donald Hoffman, the cognitive psychologist investigating perception of reality, has asserted that spacetime is a mental construct that simplifies our perception of the world around us so that it requires fewer resources to sustain. Since under Einstein gravity is curvature of spacetime, if true this means gravity is part of our interface too. There is something making people fall down ladders, but it’s not as simple as our mind perceives it to be, even for Einstein. Newtonian gravity and Aristotlean gravity have of course been entirely debunked and were thus “escaped”.

      So yeah, gravity is fake. But gravity’s fakeness isn’t that important.