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weird (adj.)

c. 1400,

• "having power to control fate", from wierd (n.), from Old English wyrd "fate, chance, fortune; destiny; the Fates," literally "that which comes,"

• from Proto-Germanic wurthiz (cognates: Old Saxon wurd, Old High German wurt "fate," Old Norse urðr "fate, one of the three Norns"),

• from PIE wert- "to turn, to wind," (cognates: German werden, Old English weorðan "to become"),

• from root wer- (3) "to turn, bend" (see versus).

• For sense development from "turning" to "becoming," compare phrase turn into "become."

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There is a mysterious circle. Let's suppose first you practice regular mundane aloneness. So you limit your contact with what would conventionally be understood as "other people." This gives you some space to think. Then eventually you realize what you thought were "other people" were just manifestation of your own mind, and in a sense, this ability to manifest such appearances hasn't really left anywhere. Thus, for example, when you go to sleep alone, you can dream up many many dream characters. Where do these characters come from? Of course they cannot come from anywhere. They're your mind's ability to generate that kind of appearance.

So there is a connection here, a circle. Mundane aloneness has a relationship to subjective idealism. It facilitates it. Because being very involved with the others is a hindrance to exploring your own perspective deeply and fully. You'd constantly be pulled out of your examinations and you'd forget what you wanted to think about because you'd have to go here and there and do this and that with the others, and so on.

So basically aloneness eventually ends up at allness, which is kind of where you (as an ex-physicalist) started but now minus the confusion. Because then when you're back at allness from pure aloneness you're not confused about the role of your own perspective in everything.

Originally commented by u/mindseal on 2017-09-15 09:46:52 (dn0pgla)