#illusion delusion

[philosophybits]

Fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.

Lucretius, On the Nature of Things

#philosophy #quotes #Lucretius #On the Nature of Things #illusions #delusions #confusion #rhetoric

[stoicmike]

The illusion of having no illusions is the greatest delusion of all. -- Michael Lipsey

#illusions #delusions

[skysanses]

Aggie/Magma doodles

Me and my friend went to Aggie.io to draw together and we did some silly stuff!

Some of the drawings are by @kona-tsuuu Illusion and Delusion by @a-v-j Template and Pale by @unu-nunu-art

#undertale #undertaleau #avj illusion #template!error #swap!nightmare #swap!error #killer sans #dust sans #poor horror #btw delusion is so pretty like omg

[rchetypal]

“The body is the truest thing; this is indubitable and undeniable even if it should fabricate poetry and philosophy or other illusions and delusions.”

— Carl Jung, (Nietzsche’s Zarathustra)

#221 #carl jung #psychology #jung #psyche #philosophy #reality #poetry #illusion #delusion

[thirdity]

If we have not yet succeeded — after how many centuries? — in eliminating from life the elements which plague us perhaps we need to question life more closely. Perhaps our refusal to face reality is the only ill we suffer from, and all the rest but illusion and delusion.

Henry Miller, Stand Still Like the Hummingbird

#reality #illusions #delusions #virtual #norms #society #quotes #Miller #Henry Miller #Stand Still Like the Hummingbird

[thecruellestmonth]

I know that Steph's death was retconned to have been faked and that she only haad a near-death experience—and, yes, I prefer this version of events because while it's extremely doubtful that Leslie would ever pull this stunt, it's at least morally correct for Bruce Wayne's loved ones to lie to his face and mess with his ego—

But I'm not on board with saying that Cass reuniting with Steph in death was just a "hallucination". No, Steph wasn't among the spirits of the dead. But I like the think that rather than Cass having a close encounter with a spirit of the dead, instead Cass as a spirit of the dead visited Steph's dreams.

In dreams and death, the line between the reality where Steph survives and the almost-reality where she died is blurred. But love and comfort and bonds between souls are the only things that are truly real.

#Stephanie Brown #Cassandra Cain #Cass and Steph #The other theory I like is Death Of The Endless adopting Steph's form to comfort Cass. #Was going to say ''delusions'' in the Buddhist-ish sense‚ but I didn't want it to be taken as the mental health sense. #Was also going to mention the ''delusions lf the material world'' but I didn't want it to be taken in the Gnostic sense exactly. #Feel like a lot of Buddhism is framed as western Gnosticism. Won't argue against that here. But it's not... accurate either... #Not me getting metaphysical lr whatever in the tags. The DCU doesn't have some strict cosmology. #It's just that hippie power of love mush. The non-denominational feel-goodism popular across focus groups. #That's what this post is about. #In dreams and death #the line between the reality where Steph survives and the almost-reality where she died is blurred. Here the borders and the illusions of t #yet love and comfort and bonds between souls are the only things that are truly real.

[astranauticus]

not sure if this counts as an AU but.. thinking about the Per Aspera crew as horror game bosses like.. you are wandering through a forested mountain range and you know somethings wrong because the forest shouldn't be this eerily silent, this devoid of life, and then you hear the crash of falling trees and there is a hand that is half your size glowing golden in the night and it is grabbing you and its claws are digging into your flesh and you see the spines running down the golden arm that is far too long as it lifts you over a crater in mountain, over a coiled, serpentine thing with a visage that is not of this world, and if you look closely you can see the shape of a child curled at the centre of the thing, golden hair reflecting the glow of the creature and if you listen closely you can hear her sobbing, 'Don't hurt me, I don't want to do this'. you are sailing through the astral sea when you see an ephemeral, resplendent spelljammer cutting through the starry waters and you rejoice because you have been lost on the seas for so so long, so you board the ship looking for help, supplies, anything, and you are greeted by a blue fire genasi (you wonder, do those even exist? but you can't get off the ship now because where else will you go?) and she tells you she is the captain of this ship but as far as you can tell there is no crew on board, and if she is not appearing right behind you from a trapdoor you've never noticed she is always in the engine room 'fixing the ship' even though the ship seems to be sailing perfectly fine ('Where are we going?' you ask her once and she doesn't even turn to look at you, 'Don't worry about it') and if you are ever so unlucky as to damage the ship in any way, you begin to catch flashes of red and orange out of the corner of your eye, a fire genasi wearing the woman's face who whispers at you with hollow, angry eyes 'Don't you fucking dare hurt my ship'. you are sailing through the astral sea when you see a rotting, decaying spelljammer, so badly damaged it's barely moving although you have to wonder how it's even staying afloat at all, and out of some morbid curiosity you climb on board and the deck of the ship is in no better shape than the hull, the marks of hard-fought battle - scars in the wood from sharp blades and arcane energies, stains of blood and oil splattered about - still fresh but you know time doesn't pass on the astral sea so who knows how long ago this all took place, and as you climb below decks you start to notice the writings on the walls, pieces of parchment nailed to every surface and connected with fraying, rotting threads, or words etched directly into the wood, the deep gouges barely readable, and you start to hear the creaking and clanking of rusted machinery slowly moving about and you turn a corner to see a figure standing in a room facing the wall, slowly scratching yet more of that unintelligible writing into the bones of the ship, and it turns as the rusted dented mechanite stares at you with eyes ablaze and he asks 'Who are you? Where is my crew?' as sparks of arcane lightning begins to arc through the room. you are running through a feywild forest and you know, even without the figure chasing you, that you have made a horrible mistake, you should have known better, should have been more careful, should have kept your impulses in check, and now you are being chased through an unfamiliar forest and the figure, the Hunter pursuing you knows this realm like the back of his hand, knows every tree and shrub and vine that is slithering up to grasp at your ankles, and you glance back desperately to catch any glimpse of your pursuer but there is no pursuer, he has hidden himself with some arcane trick or some innate power or just the knowledge that this realm is his home, and you hear his voice even though you cannot see him as he cries out 'You should not have hurt my family. Prepare to face the Hunter of Hundkiln'

sorry no Vhas yet maybe I'll update with one for him once we get more of his whole deal

#rolling with difficulty #asto speaks #well i lied only kyana's and finbar's really work as video game bossfights #dani's is more... horror short story? vr-la's is horror comic #bc dani's much more psychological and the environmental storytelling of vr-la's one would be pretty interesting.. probably #in hindsight vr-la's reads like it could be a magnus archive entry LMAO #contrary to whatever you may think (especially if youre in the discord) i dont actually like most horror #like i've only listened to abt ~10 episodes of tma bc it started fucking up my sleep thats how much of a wuss i am #like i dont actually *enjoy* horror but idk i had so much fun writing this. for some reason #hell i dont even enjoy *writing* most of the time #all the others are kinda based on a specific scenario like kyana's is if she never left the cenobium and suvi snapped before she did #(if you've watched/read jjk0 video game bossfight suvi is very much just orimoto rika) #vr-la's and finbar's are pretty self evident #dani's is kinda.. inspired by alfonso of the stultifera navis making this my second rwd brainworm that's just an arknights reference #captains that are cursed to haunt their empty ships plagued with has beens and could have beens #(her one is the only one absolutely not meant to be read as literal btw its a very 'that house has been empty for 40 years' kinda vibe) #found it kinda funny that dani's and vrla's start in very similar ways bc they both kinda have that i am the ship and the ship is me thing #dani's vibe in this is just more illusions and delusions and vrla's is more decaying forgotten grief #a ghost of a mechanite haunting a corpse of a ship

[livingfossilknits]

A TAM OF DELUSION INCARNATE

The fifth in my series of tams inspired by The Magnus Archives, one for each of Smirke’s 15 fears! This time: The Spiral!

Inspired by optical illusions, computer glitches and the general concept of eyestrain, I wanted this hat to be a little difficult (but still fun!) to look at. I decided to go for a slightly more conceptual hat for the Distortion, and I’m really happy with how it turned out!

#the magnus archives #the magnus archive #the magnus archives fanart #tma fanart #tma #rusty quill tma #the spiral #the distortion #michael shelley #michael distortion #helen richardson #helen distortion #eyestrain tw #delusion mention #knitting #original knitting pattern #optical illusion

[vizthedatum]

I think sometimes maya (माया) can happen because we're so caught up in what the outcome is going to be - so we chase after a complete illusion of what could be and completely miss what will be.

I think, if we focus too much on the constructs or our fantasies based on those constructs, we become stagnant and stuck.

We all must remember we are worthy of being exactly who we are. Take the time to figure it out. I am still working on it.

#release your ego #maya #illusion #delusion #sanskrit #buddhism #hinduism #outcome #reality #i don't chase i attract #spirituality #worth #love #healing #self love

[witchey]

hello welcome to.my swag url

#🔮💭 #gir1king -> delusioner #sorry to have such a mental.illness moment but i am suffering #illusioner would have been better bc delusions honestly scare me way more than any illusion and or hallucination. #idk 🤪

[philosophybits]

How do I know that loving life is not a delusion? How do I know that in hating death I am not like a man who, having left home in his youth, has forgotten the way back?

Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Zhuangzi, Watson tr. (Ch 2)

#philosophy #quotes #Zhuangzi #The Complete Works of Zhuangzi #life #delusions #illusions

[stoicmike]

Would you care for some of my illusions? I’ve got more than I really need. -- Michael Lipsey

#illusions #delusions #confusions

[absurdlakefront]

If a society or a social class has no chance to make any use of its insight because there is objectively no hope for a change for the better, the chances are that everybody in such a society would stick to the fictions since the awareness of the truth would only make them feel worse. Decaying societies and classes are usually those which hold most fiercely to their fictions since they have nothing to gain by the truth.

Erich Fromm, Beyond the Chains of Illusion, 1962

#fromm #erich fromm #Illusion #delusion #psychology #sociology

[allislove111]

Interviewer: “Finn, where do you think you and El are going to go?”

F: “Oh, I don’t know” says coyly. *oh he knows*

Giggles galore from a couple people.

F: “uh, I don’t know I’m really interested in, (who are you interested in, Mike? 😏) like I don’t know, I’m interested in like for kind of like the end of the show (Milkvan to finally end), in general because like- because it’s kind of like the “Harry Potter Effect”. (Tries to redirect conversation into a parallel) You have to leave Hogwarts; some people have to leave Hawkins (some relationships don’t last). Who’s gonna stay in Hawkins, who’s gonna leave (who is going to leave, Mike or El 🤔), who’s gonna try to find a life outside (is Mike going to find a life outside his comfort zone? 😉) , yeah..” chuckles.

Giggles galore from a couple people.

F: “yeah, is there even gonna be a Hawkins (is there going to be a continuation of Milkvan?) , I don’t know. Umm…but, yeah (he knows) , I’d be interested to see if like Mike, I mean, be interested to see if Mike stays in Hawkins (stays with Milkvan) or tries to find a life outside of his town (outside of comfort zone, stops being repressed), and also you know it’s hard to tell(eye contact), like obviously (looks down, avoiding truth) with Eleven and his relationship (not hard to tell if people actually watch the show, right Finn? 🙃)..”

Interviewer: “mmhmm”

F: (swallows) “but I hope they uh, they find, (looks up and smiles hesitantly) you know, happiness.” (Finn hopes for a well-received audience, because Byler is happening, and will happiness be perceived by all? 🧐)

Can he be anymore Evasive?? 😩 Finn is so good at not revealing anything but I had to do my analysis on reading between the lines. The interviewer specifically asked about Mike and El’s future going forward. He mostly talks about Hawkins 🤔 which reminds me of the show honestly, where there’s SO MUCH subtext and subtleties. I think Finn is trying to tell us something without actually saying it. How he speaks about Hawkins and leaving town reminds me of Mike’s playlist song, “Smalltown Boy”. I think Finn is subtly referring to whether or not Mike and El will still be together or if he’s going to venture to new horizons, aka our boy Will ☺️

*youtube video with ily monologue at roughly 23 minutes in; Finn’s responses to be included through roughly 29 minutes in.

#byler byler byler #byler #byler is still endgame #stranger things #mike wheeler #finn wolfhard #stranger things 4 #stranger things vol 2 #will byers #I’m analyzing anything and everything atp #i have fallen into the byler delusions #but it’s not a delusion or an illusion #byler is real #Spotify

[fairycosmos]

todays silly little outfit!

#wish i was strategically posed and wearing black 24/7 LMFAO #i love illusions and delusion! also hope ur all having a good day 💗 me personally im listening to #old 1d and getting drunk #selfie

[efhmeros]

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#I JUST WOKE UP AND I HAD THE MOST WEIRD COVERSATION WITH MY CRUSH #THEY SEND ME A GOOD MORNING TEXT AND THEY RESPONDED WITH HEARTS TO MY MESSAGES #WHAT IS HAPPENING #THIS IS NOT NORMAL AT ALL #it was just what I needed tho #and I AM trying to take some distance and be unavailable but these things happen #like the other day they asked me what's up we haven't talk in some days #Is it ILLUSIONS and DELUSIONS or is it real somebody pls help