Echoes of Conversations II : When we are together

...And they are done with most of the bottles, and the conversations are filled with laughter, passion, knowledge, insight, inside jokes and hilarious or sad stories.

Suddenly, your head is mindfucked, and filled with plenty. So much to process, to go through over again. So much dreamed of.

 -"When I start my PhD, I will make a home out of my place, and I hope I will get to decorate it with these."

-"J., my dear, I will bring you one but it'll be a rat dipped in sulfate copper."

-"It won't latch, you need an exoskeleton"

 Problem solved. Although, it's a rabbit. I'm sure I can get him a rat.

-"Very few scientific organizations are allowed to work with defective fertilized cells."

-"Social sciences are heavily involved in biology and other disciplines of STEM. Ethics are not luxury of the people living in a moral bubble, they are additional restrictions that push us to aim harder, work more and have more awareness and respect of precious resources that we can never give back, that is life and time, joy and lack of pain.

-"I'd sacrifice one person for the sake of 500"

-"But to spare 500 of what? If we consider sufferance as a compulsory parameter of the human condition and its management an undeniable condition to pretend to be a human being, you will be technically depriving 500 people of their right to claim more humanity."

-"There is no guarantee 500 people dealing with pain will grow out of it. The social animal will always escape sufferance by any leisure means available, whether they are harmful to his body or the other parts of his being or not."

-"With the kind of lack of awareness and self-reflection and looking for the easy way for anything that is predominating the vox populis culture, I would not be surprised that the spared 500 will not only not grow out of their sufferance, but they themselves will become a source of disease to others from the lack of healing and the absence of self-reflection and acceptance of pain.

-Hence, my point: I'll sacrifice one to spare the world 500 new diseases.

-Spare the world? Bitch please, more social animals to feed on it with gluttony is not what I would describe as sparing the world.

-When one piece of the cohesive identity is getting attacked, ego switches to it and the person chooses to become defined by it: if your religious group is getting the heat, you identify more as part of this community and strive to show it through your immediate choices and acts. You forget the other parts of your cohesive identity and focus solely on this part, paradoxically enough drowning your own identity into one adjective, one robotic feature, one cliche. It can be more though, more pieces of your identity getting heat from the outside as interpreted by your mind and therefore your ego focusing solely on them.
-You end up with an ego consuming you and a linear image of the self you used to have before burying it deep inside.
-The ego doesn't consume so much as it becomes more stupid. It's not irreversible though. The rehabilitation of brainwashed and PTSD patients is not far-fetched. The issue is to focus on the ego instead of the mind: convincing this entity that strives to be an individual while being part of a group and being idolized and loved that it's not threatened by change is difficult. The ego is very fragile and will do anything to stay as granitic as possible. It doesn't help when the mind is not in collaboration either and the personal worth is not of balance in aspect to these other components...
-What about instilling the mind with the quest of the higher s..."
-K. I'm done with philosophy, f*** I just want to graduate, have a 9-5 pm job and feel like going through the motion of life without thinking of every aspect of this bitch.
-He killed you man.
-He killed the sonofacunt.