Solipsism vs. Otherness

[Spiritual Warfare]

Are self-love and love for others related, or even comparable? In self-help groups, we often hear about the importance of learning to love oneself as a remedy for insecurities, anxiety, and self-destructive behaviors. Yet, I have serious doubts about our capacity to truly love ourselves. In our universe, I believe we’re limited in experiencing love as a reflexive action. We can care for, trust, and respect ourselves, but love? I don’t think so.

Love, at its core, is a social action. It requires otherness, a relationship between the self and another. Our interactions gain meaning and depth when there is an “other.” Without this, what we call self-love drifts toward narcissism.

This leads to a larger question: is our universe one where otherness exists, or is it solitary in nature? Falling in love with the other is the greatest adventure of existence. The universe is more strange and complex than we can ever imagine. For many, God represents that vast unknown, a way to make sense of the incomprehensible. While belief in God might be a simplification, it reflects our need to grasp the mystery of otherness.

Existentialism suggests that our understanding of the universe, even through the lens of God, is a necessary fiction. We create meaning in a world that might ultimately be absurd. The Sermon on the Mount offers a radical idea: you don’t truly become a self until you give yourself away. Altruism, though counterintuitive to selfishness, might be the key to understanding love.

God represents the ultimate other, and a relationship with God reflects our need to engage with something beyond ourselves. Theists live in a binary universe of self and other. Atheists, on the other hand, lean into a mono-universe, one where truth is rooted in science and rationality. Without acknowledging the mystery of otherness, they risk a form of solipsism, where others are merely reflections of themselves rather than independent beings.

Is this solipsism the inevitable outcome of a world without otherness?

[Breakingthewall]

Solipsism is a limited and sad vision where you perceive everything as dead. Otherness is unlimited, wonderful and real vision where you perceive everything as alive. There is only one reality: you. But its replied to infinity in infinite dimensions to the infinite power, and all of them collapse in you, the unfathomable that exists, the absolute. 

[ChrisZoZo]

God is so unconditionally loving that he allows someone to exist who doesn’t love him. Know, this at least intellectually and then think about what you said. 

[ChrisZoZo]

21 minutes ago, Spiritual Warfare said:

Atheists, on the other hand, lean into a mono-universe, one where truth is rooted in science and rationality

This is what atheists say in order to make themselves feel fulfilled for a temporary moment but in reality this is mostly wrong. Modern science is really just thinking within a box this is totally fine except for the fact that they then put their idea of the universe within the box. If you don’t believe me, then you actually do not know how the peer review process works.

[LoseYourvelf]

You have to reintegrate atheism after a proper awakening, what does that tell you

hehe

Edited October 12 by LoseYourvelf

[ChrisZoZo]

26 minutes ago, Spiritual Warfare said:

Is this solipsism the inevitable outcome of a world without otherness?

Sorry to say, but this is just very close to a word salad you either have no idea what we’re talking about or you need to explain it more clearly. 

[ChrisZoZo]

2 minutes ago, LoseYourvelf said:

You have to reintegrate atheism after a proper awakening, what does that tell you

hehe

You as God have to integrate the fact that you are dreaming yourself to be a human not believing in God. That’s funny.

[ChrisZoZo]

12 minutes ago, Breakingthewall said:

Solipsism is a limited and sad vision

God in his entirety is especially sad about this.
 

Edited October 12 by ChrisZoZo

[Hojo]

Solipsism but not your solipsism. It dosent have an identity.

Edited October 12 by Hojo