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Why confess? Is this not what philosophers ought to do ~~ explore a thing from different angles?
Nietzsche would be proud of you, Mr. List.
Now you know that it is not a good idea to tell the likes of me to NOT think too hard. Take that any way you desire.
Maybe you need to define what YOU mean by “outside of us”.
The way I look at it, at least for now, our emotions are within. What may affect us can be from within and without - either things and emotions not properly dealt. I look up at the stars, they are without, but they cause different emotions to rise up within me.
Some wave of emotion might be triggered within me from perhaps a dream (within) which I may have due to not having resolved something or other from within.
As for the first part, I certainly hope so ~~ perhaps more often than *at times".
As for the second part, sure, considering that we can also look upon ourselves as being something (beings) who originated in the surrounding universe and still exist there.
Can something, in actuality, come from nothing? I think not and perhaps there is more in that so-called nothingness than we know of as of yet. What does physics now show? We’ll forget about that.
We are always being affected, even as we dream and even when we do not dream. A good sleep affects our mental and physical health.
Is there a moment when nothing actually affects us?
Can we even, in actuality, say that when we are simply being, existing in or out of time, for instance, contemplating, depending how one considers it, that we are not being affected by something? I think not.
We are still observing even on a subs conscious level. What are our atoms attending to in those moments?
First a question here. Wouldn’t you say that an event which so affects us would also be within our consciousness, not outside of it?
lol You suggest all events. Do you mean to ask me to list all events? I am joking.
Yes, I would suggest that all events do have some effect on us. They are measured by degrees and by importance though.
Okay I will strip myself naked here. lol The one which has affected me the most took place when I was a wee bit of a girl when I thought that I had been abandoned, was being abandoned by my father, who, as it was, turned out NOT to be my actual father which has no bearing here since to me he was at the time, my Daddy.
For all extents and purposes, that little girl had been abandoned by her Daddy, both outside of and within her consciousness, at the same time.
No, not surface meaning. Way below surface meaning, where we live at our core. The deeper we go, the more the meaning, because there is where we get at the true cause.
I like to dive.