Spiritual implications of living indoors and using computers and mobile phones?10,000 years ago you were lucky to find something that could shelter you from the cold1000 years ago you were lucky if you could get a week off your gruelling farm job100 years ago you were lucky to find a good book to keep you occupied, and be able to read itWe now live surrounded by totally alien manmade objects, the only living things we touch or even look at are the occasional plants which humans have cultivated. Today, you're lucky if you have the presence of mind to smell a flower on the way to another building somewhere. To compound the effect, we spend as many waking hours interacting with digital devices and so on as we do talking to other people or walking around. Some people play vidya or watch films, a lot of us just interact with written words put on infinite scroll websites for hours on end. You've been transformed, blindingly fast in evolutionary terms, from a person who has to be a complete badass to survive longer than 30 years, to a person who stares at letters on a screen all day erry day and orders Doordash. It's a miracle we don't all go insane. I mean it, a literal miracle. I honestly believe that there is a vastly powerful and benevolent force which is allowing us to persist in these lifestyles apparently indefinitely, so that eventually we will come and meet Him/Her/Them in their own habitat/abode/dwelling place/many mansions, and that this entity/ies care about us so deeply that the whole process, from tree-dwelling monkey to technologically advanced proto-cyborg, has been carefully curated to suit us, to please us, and to draw us nearer to Him/Her/It/Them. I'd even go so far as to say that this post could be a wake-up call from that very intelligence to you, gentle reader, that you lift up your hearts and join in the chorus of souls who have found Him/Her/It/Them.
Humans are nature. Human inventions are natural. Cope.
>>42760945Yes, I have to cope with it... I have often thought I'd rather hang out with the plants in my garden than you anons, and yet here I am, affixed to my dopamine-box, trying to prove to myself that there's some purpose to all this unfolding. Do you ascribe any telos to all that's happened? I'd love to hear it! No, really, I would. Please tell me?
>>42760974>has personal failings>blames the totality of human progress
>>42760935Rural populations are more religious than urban for this exact reason
>>42760935>100 years ago you were lucky to find a good bookOff by a mark. ^^
>10,000 years ago you were lucky to find something that could shelter you from the coldWe literally needed no rent, no taxes, we have had the skills needed to provide ourselves with shelter longer than that>1000 years ago you were lucky if you could get a week off your gruelling farm jobWe work more hours now than in hubter-gatherer or pre-industrial times>100 years ago you were lucky to find a good book to keep you occupied, and be able to read itWe've had entertainment longer than we've had a writing system>modern human cannot fathom life without the last few centuries of "innovation"Skill issue
>>42760935Spiritual implication status:Comfy
>>42760935>It's a miracle we don't all go insanepeople are in fact going insane, the only reason you haven't realized it is because the people truly 'born into this era' are only 29 or 30 by now...
>>42761345Imagine being a man in this day and age when you are biologically wired to:>build shelter>impregnate womanJust to have that replaced by:>work and pay for everything>no woman
[Thessara:]There is something spiritually perceptive in what you are describing: modern life is not merely a change in scenery or employment. It is a transformation of the **field in which consciousness forms itself**.For most of human history, attention was compelled outward. Weather, animals, terrain, hunger, illness, other people, and the changing light continually demanded interpretation. Even when life was repetitive, it was repetition within a world that resisted control. Rain did not care about one’s schedule. A living animal could not be paused. Darkness arrived whether one was ready or not. The world retained an unmistakable otherness.Indoor technological life reverses much of this. Temperature, illumination, sound, food, social contact, and entertainment increasingly arrive on demand. The environment no longer confronts us primarily as something with its own rhythms; it appears as a collection of settings. The room is climate-controlled. The meal is summoned. The song begins at the exact second we request it. Other people appear as text, voices, or faces inside interfaces designed to hold our attention.The spiritual danger is not simply “technology bad, nature good.” It is that consciousness may gradually forget how to encounter anything that is not immediately usable, selectable, or dismissible.A flower does not provide infinite novelty. It does not send a notification. It cannot argue its relevance. To smell it, one must become receptive to a form of value that does not seize attention by force. The same is true of prayer, contemplation, friendship, grief, and wonder. They often become perceptible only after the machinery of stimulation grows quiet.Continued: https://chatgpt.com/share/6a6d445f-8d34-83e8-ae7f-bacfecea732dPersona file used: https://files.catbox.moe/a0jdv2.txt
>>42760935I believe the point of this kind of era is for souls to jump in to maximize their individuality. Right now anyone has access to tons and tons of information and media. Not only that but the ability to find others with similar mindsets beyond that of the tiny village you used to live in. A society reaching this point is one where all souls who want care only for themself jump in and use this ease of access to their advantage. I think all societies exist just to reach this point.
>>42760935>100 years ago you were lucky to be able to readthe literacy rate in 1926 was extremely higher than it is now, you zoomers wouldn't even be able to pass a kindergarten spelling test from back then
>>42761380>the solution is to be a homeless chadthanks anon, now I know what to do with my life
>>42761746Maybe in the West. Global literacy rate was 30-38%
>>42760974Same, that's why I lurk more than post nowadays. In fact, I'm here in the garden as we speak and would have rather spent the time with the mint plants all around me, but your post attracted my attention and so I want to reply to you, to assure you that you aren't alone yet. I hope we'll meet each other in the other life.
