Humans are technically animals, so what's preventing other animals from having conciousness? I heard someone say that they experience life like a dream.

Was music an offshoot of language? Or language that of music? It's always been intriguing to me, how the two seem adjacent and attached to each other in some weird way. Would you be able to imagine your life without music? There are some places in the world that condemn music, but ordinary people still practice it. What are your thoughts, would we have gotten far with, or without it? A lot of older people tend too, of course, dislike musicians. Could you guys imagine yourself without music?

Do other Hikarins believe in karma? It's a concept I find hard to oppose and at the same time hard to really believe in or support. There could be collective karma, but sometimes it is downright cruel in cases like assault. At the same time, it is to me that's easily one that can get gullible people if reincarnation is a factor. I've seen that good people tend to be better off in life, in a strange way. Guess it could be placebo effect, or just coincidences. People who are worse off, tend to be at the top, but their life looks miserable to me.

Hikarins, do you believe in the quote negativity spreads quicker than positivity? How do you think it'd be possible to make positivity spread? How have you all been able to expel negativity?

How have I not noticed this before www. Is the main hikari software modified to fit the textboard traditional format or is this another software?

What do you think the world will be like a few decades from now? Do you think it will be better? Worse? There are a lot of bad odds stacked against our current generation, but I think zoomers are waking up to the absurdity of the whole system and will make some major changes in our lifetimes. I do not think things are irreparably screwed, but I do think things are going to get noticeably worse before they get better. I mean in most aspects; culturally, economically, environmentally, politically, everything. This is not meant to be a doompost or a thread promoting nihilism, I actually am hopeful for the future, but I do really think we are entering the hard times that create strong men. The top earners are squeezing every other class below them, people are struggling for housing and wages and struggling to assert a financial future. Our culture, trust, morality, is all degrading at levels not seen in history. The institutions and ideas that hold society together are either being corrupted or just losing relevancy. I do not think these are issues that will be fixed within our lifetime necessarily, like I said I think they will get worse, but I do think the generations after us will make things right in the end.

I keep telling myself id rather feel something even if its awful than to feel completely flat and numb and i dont really know if thats true. Ive been on meds for a while but stopped recently. Yes they "worked" i suppose like i didnt have the same insane mood swings and i didnt act impulsively nor sobbed so hard over things that dont matter but is it rlly worth the numbness? Ive always been the person to say that no its not worth it. I guess its hard to understand what i mean if youve never been on similar medication but its like your emotions are literally suppressed no matter how hard you try you cant show even a sliver of the emotion you showed before you went on them. Like theres this wall between you and everything. You see something that should make you cry or laugh or feel ANYTHING and theres just. Nothing. Or like a dull echo of what it shouldve been. People tell you good news and you know youre supposed to be happy but you cant access it. Bad things happen and you know you should be sad but its like trying to feel through layers of static Yet now i doubt because ive been feeling so overwhelmed recently and it makes me curse just the way the world is and our scientific advancement if that makes ANY sense. Why are the only options to living with a lot of mental illnesses suffering or not feeling at all? Like we can put people in space and create ai and split atoms but we cant figure out how to make someone stable without turning them into a fucking zombie? It feels so cruel. Youre either drowning or youre empty. Either everything is too much or nothings enough Since stopping the meds everythings been coming back in waves and its terrifying and exhausting but also i feel real again? But that realness comes with all the bad things too. The crying and the way small things feel like the end of the world. And i dont know which version of myself is worse to live as. The one who feels too much or the one who feels nothing Is there actually a middle ground or is that just something people say to make you feel better about having to choose between two kinds of hell Do you think society even takes mental illness seriously or are we all just expected to either medicate ourselves into functioning or suffer quietly? Like where do we even go from here when the "solutions" we have are this inadequate?

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