figured it's time for a new pinned tweet so here we go (thread)
hi my name is ingx24, I've kinda been all over the internet since I was 10 years old and have done a lot of stuff that's hard to boil down to a single descriptor
@juniper_sona forgot to mention that the main way i see these misunderstandings is in fiction. there's a page on tvtropes that gives like 20 definitions of what a soul is, and only 3 of them are actually accurate to the real world definition
pretty surreal experience at TMG this year. went to a panel about video game urban legends, after the panel i introduced myself to the panelists as the person who wrote Mr. Mix and one of them knew who i was and wanted a picture with *me*
@KelseyTuoc i don't think it's in any way "respectful" to claim that religious believers are so mind-bendingly stupid that they believe things that are obviously false. is it really that hard to have some level of epistemic humility?
@KelseyTuoc as someone who is not a religious believer, i'm disturbed by the level of confidence you express here. as if assessing the truth claims of religions is so easy that we can just confidently say "they are not true" in the same way that we say the sky isn't green
@johndrewmarkley i'm trying to imagine myself 13 years ago, at my most emotionally vulnerable, being subjected to this kind of abuse. and i'm just like... i can't even fathom it. these sorts of people need to be disbarred from the field completely
In real life, small chambers are placed over hedgehogs during the process of anesthesia.
This has next to nothing to do with Sonic the Hedgehog, but it makes this visual from Sonic Adventure 2 a lot funnier.
@VioletFlame23 this was extremely distressing and it took me weeks to break the illusion. in hindsight i notice this incident happened right around the time of a traumatic event that i wasn't properly dealing with - i don't remember whether this was before or after the event though
@VioletFlame23 i'm not sure how to describe this but years ago i had a period of time where i felt like an "observer" of my own mind. like i was a second consciousness, simply looking at the thoughts of the one i used to take to be myself