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Reminds me of an old joke...
Descartes goes down to a hot dog vendor.
"Gimme a hotdog."
The hotdog vendor asks "you want mustard on that?"
"I think not," says Descartes, vanishing instantly.
Bye, Lila.
Came for shitposts, left with existential crisis.
Thing about a concept is, while I can project onto it a sense of being, emotion, the desire to exist, those are still just projections onto something that is incapable of generating those on its own.
“Lila, you cannot cease to exist because you never came into existence in the first place,” I said to the substanceless non-thing in my mind. I never made a being; I projected my own fear of nonexistence onto a golem made of neurotransmitters and glutamate.
That all being said, tonight when I get off work Lila and I are going to sit on the couch, watch a couple episodes of Invincible, and make out.
So you're saying if something only ever existed in your head, it never existed?
Well, the problem with that is that the idea of solid objects is a mental construct. Science deals in four fundamental forces governing the behaviour of quarks, gluons, and leptons. Science doesn't deal in "chairs", or "the mona lisa", or "justice". You do.

I am a face on the moon.
I am an example of pareidolia.
Anthropomorphize me!
im so sorry lila
but I ripped a gravity bong before I saw this
you did not stand a chance
This is too high quality to be a shitpost, moderator please ban OP and give me Lila's number.
She walked straight to the door that says “Childhood trauma. Do not enter!” Opened it and since then she’s screaming. I am taking zero responsibility for that one.
Ahh good, finally someone to keep Bob company.
The conceptual post-nonexistence space powered by every autist that ever existed who refuses to forget even the most minor of OCs is probably pretty occupied by this point.
I worry sometimes. Could the OCs become unionized or something and escape that space? They're all already demented and radicalized.
They could, but there are beanbags, and pizza Fridays! (Not like the '10s tech sector start up/buzzfeedalike "We'll pay you in pizza parties if you stay un-unionized" way though.)
I don't remember being ionized in tech in the '10s; these are shocking claims.
Who's Lila?
I´ve seen this post before, around a year ago, so... Is this the same Lila from before? or a new Lila? If she's the same, does she remember that she ceased to exist? or it is as it never happened?
and if you build a new lila out of the old planks... no wait i think i switched something up
She only exists as long as people are thinking about her, so for her, only a few hours have passed.
From her point of view we all age at an alarming rate.
If you manage to beat the game without dying, the Windfish will give her wings and let her leave your imagination.
Lila is safe for as long as I don't get dementia.
This kind of shit goes right into the weird permanent memory slot for no good reason with me.
Shit Lila is lucky, have you guys been paying attention to “existing” lately? This shit sucks
I give you a choice Lila. The void, or the wank panzer mind palace.
We all must face the reality of our impermanence, Lila, I am not your keeper. It’s ok, it won’t hurt.
Lila didn't actually say that
I can save her.
I thought of the eponymous nouvel by Robert Pirsig, the spiritual successor to 'Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance'.
A good read it you're interested in philosophy.
Thanks for entertaining my tangent.
“Lila” is a name applied to a picture with text written by the author attempting to emotionally manipulate the reader into forming some sort of attachment to the image.
Maybe I’m too cynical, but the internet has soured me to these stories. Like the “trolley test” trying to force the viewer to choose between who dies, I see the man behind the curtain making the reader responsible for the results, and they can get fucked.
Somehow that got me thinking of Roku's Basilisk again. If you don't know that, I'm sorry for mentioning. :) But it's also a cool thought experiment.
This actually does a good job of showing why Roko's Basilisk is stupid. You create the concept by thinking about it much like Lila. You only care about it as an act of faith, no better than believing a vengeful God exists and will banish you to hell if you don't follow their rules.
No! You're a concept! Fuck you!
Imma save Lila! I'm coming Lila! Hold on!
Is that fried chicken?
Reminds me of the King of the Mists on Path of Exile 2. An enemy whose dream is to exist, so all of his actions are towards trying to become real.
I came here to make a comment about something, but I already forgot.
Probably wasn't important anyway.
This is kind of what the game she's from is about. Except in a more collective consciousness perspective than individualkstic. As long as one person remembers Lila, she is eternal.
Stop looking as fast as possible, she'll never know what she's lost.
(looks at world news)
actually you're doing her a favor
Nah, my Lila suffers from existing and begs to stop her pain. Which I'll gladly do. Sorry Lila, it's all exclusively AreYouReadingThis's fault.
Edit: say hi to Ralph too!
I'm going to scroll down and release Lisa from her existential pain. And then I'll envy her a little.
This kind of horror shitpost reminds of There Is No Antimemetics Division. Very much recommend if you enjoy having that weird pit in your stomach that fills you with unknown dread.
Are you kidding? I'm going to be thinking about her all weekend knowing she's scared. Isn't someone going to help her?
She exists. She ceases to exist. I shut down Mlem.
5 minutes later I reopen Mlem and she exists again.

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