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Post by Timberwere on Mar 30, 2020 7:33:25 GMT
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Post by wies on Mar 30, 2020 7:37:28 GMT
Like arf mentioned, this is very reminiscent of Gaiman's book "The Ocean at the End of the Lane".
I love how Dannybot first completely falls apart and then all their parts dissolve in the waters.
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Post by madjack on Mar 30, 2020 7:37:28 GMT
The speech bubble dissolving into the rest of the panel is a nice touch.
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Post by migrantworker on Mar 30, 2020 9:06:55 GMT
And that, it seems, is what robot nirvana looks like. |
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Post by pyradonis on Mar 30, 2020 10:51:15 GMT
And that, it seems, is what robot nirvana looks like. To me, it seems more like the opposite of nirvana.  |
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Post by migrantworker on Mar 30, 2020 10:58:50 GMT
And that, it seems, is what robot nirvana looks like. To me, it seems more like the opposite of nirvana. I'm going with what Wikipedia says: "In the Buddhist tradition, Nirvana has commonly been interpreted as the extinction of the "three fires", or "three poisons", passion (raga), aversion (dvesha) and ignorance (moha or avidyā)." I'd say our robot friend is well on its way to achieving exactly that. |
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Post by arkadi on Mar 30, 2020 12:14:57 GMT
And that, it seems, is what robot nirvana looks like. To me, it seems more like the opposite of nirvana. Nirvana also implies the extinction of the old self, which seems to be exactly what is happening to our robot friend here. |
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Post by Aura on Mar 30, 2020 13:03:08 GMT
I wonder what will happen if the robot reawakens as their new self and is "ungrateful" ala 'existence is pain'?
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Post by saardvark on Mar 30, 2020 13:44:30 GMT
To me, it seems more like the opposite of nirvana. I'm going with what Wikipedia says: "In the Buddhist tradition, Nirvana has commonly been interpreted as the extinction of the "three fires", or "three poisons", passion (raga), aversion (dvesha) and ignorance (moha or avidyā)." I'd say our robot friend is well on its way to achieving exactly that. although, in some sense, he is gaining passion (as an emotion), not losing it. Maybe that is what pyradonis was referring to... |
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Post by migrantworker on Mar 30, 2020 15:34:47 GMT
I'm going with what Wikipedia says: "In the Buddhist tradition, Nirvana has commonly been interpreted as the extinction of the "three fires", or "three poisons", passion (raga), aversion (dvesha) and ignorance (moha or avidyā)." I'd say our robot friend is well on its way to achieving exactly that. although, in some sense, he is gaining passion (as an emotion), not losing it. Maybe that is what pyradonis was referring to... Hmm. Well, yes. But also his immediate emotion (of fear) has been subsiding for the last few panels, and now seems all but gone. |
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Post by wies on Mar 30, 2020 15:41:04 GMT
For how long though? I mean, when Robot felt pain for the first time, it completely absorbed him.
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Post by shadow3 on Mar 30, 2020 22:25:10 GMT
There is no spoon.
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Post by ctso74 on Mar 30, 2020 22:37:18 GMT
I'm not saying, that I'd give up my conscience to not experience pain. I'm just saying, it's all fun and philosophical games, until Pipes steps on a Lego.
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Post by Igniz on Mar 30, 2020 23:34:45 GMT
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Post by DonDueed on Mar 31, 2020 1:26:42 GMT
I notice that even after dissolving into the metaphorical ocean, our pipe-bot still retains the one-red-to-two-green "eye" ratio.
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Post by pyradonis on Apr 1, 2020 11:04:48 GMT
I'm going with what Wikipedia says: "In the Buddhist tradition, Nirvana has commonly been interpreted as the extinction of the "three fires", or "three poisons", passion (raga), aversion (dvesha) and ignorance (moha or avidyā)." I'd say our robot friend is well on its way to achieving exactly that. although, in some sense, he is gaining passion (as an emotion), not losing it. Maybe that is what pyradonis was referring to... Yes, that is what I meant. And ignorance comes - in my understanding - at least partly from the limited way our physical senses give us input. |
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