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Re: OCC: Tulpas, sentient imaginary friends

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KadenRP is not online. KadenRP
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27 Jan 2016 04:55 PM
A while ago I 'discovered' about tulpas, which as like imaginary friends with their own feelings and opinions. They can talk and think just like we do, but we don't control them like when we create a character or an imaginary friend. For example, they may be able to help you on your homework, but you can't force your tulpa to help you, just like a real friend might not want to help you with your homework. There is a tulpa community on reddit that shows dozens of guides on how to make your own tulpa, each different to help you get started. You can give tulpas whichever form you like, but if you decide to it the form of maybe a cartoon character, it might cause identity problems for your tulpa.

I havent yet made a tulpa, but heres how to find the community:

I'm not allowed to post off-site links, so just go on reddit and add /r/Tulpas,
or search in Google "reddit Tulpas" to find the tulpa community.


Good luck, and let me know how it goes!
I'll try to answer any questions you might have.
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CrystaIGems is not online. CrystaIGems
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27 Jan 2016 05:35 PM
Sounds pretty bullcrap-y.


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eikoopmit is not online. eikoopmit
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27 Jan 2016 06:00 PM
I once had six simultaneous arguments with myself and someone said that I might potentially be a tulpamancer for managing to do that.

De jongen drinkt de melk. All you need to know is that "Jongen" means "Boy" and you've learned yourself some Dutch.
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PickachuGirl is not online. PickachuGirl
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27 Jan 2016 06:03 PM
t-the heck?

*Sitting Alone In A Corner* [Diary Entry #932] Well Im Here, Last Man On Earth I Used The World Scaner No One's Here, No one to Talk To, No One To Go Outside With Me I Think This Is It For Me, Goodbye World.
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eikoopmit is not online. eikoopmit
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27 Jan 2016 06:05 PM
I bet that the entire concept of tulpas on the internet was created to justify a schizophrenic person not taking his medication.

De jongen drinkt de melk. All you need to know is that "Jongen" means "Boy" and you've learned yourself some Dutch.
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Tekamonn is not online. Tekamonn
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27 Jan 2016 06:17 PM
This is very interesting, really. Is there any stickied guide for this? I'm looking at the reddit right now.
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LittleRainBoots is not online. LittleRainBoots
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27 Jan 2016 06:49 PM
Well, I suppose I might as well read up on this..
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PurringThunder is not online. PurringThunder
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27 Jan 2016 06:51 PM
I bet that the entire concept of tulpas on the internet was created to justify a schizophrenic person not taking his medication. [2]
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Jin150 is not online. Jin150
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27 Jan 2016 07:09 PM
The worst are MLP Tulpas
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sweetlillyrose is not online. sweetlillyrose
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27 Jan 2016 07:12 PM
is it bad that i just dont understand what this really means
like
is these tulpas things like an actual person talking to you or some weird computer generated thing that you become friends with

i dont understand
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Jin150 is not online. Jin150
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27 Jan 2016 07:16 PM
Having a tulpa means you have schizophrenia or a low form of schizophrenia.


Basically you imagine something infront of you atleast 1 hour a day and eventually it will become it's own thought. Yes, it can do what it wants.


Bla Bla Bla


Some people say they got beaten and r a p e d by their tulpa
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sweetlillyrose is not online. sweetlillyrose
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27 Jan 2016 07:18 PM
oh so it is a literal imaginary friend


i just assumed that it was some sort of program or something
i still dont kind of get it
but
okay
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Jin150 is not online. Jin150
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27 Jan 2016 07:28 PM
No, it's deeper than that.


Having a tulpa means you have a mental illness like schizophrenia
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Schismatic is not online. Schismatic
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27 Jan 2016 07:39 PM
According to the ever accurate and entirely trustworthy Wikipedia, Tulpas are creatures from Indian mysticism that are summoned through mental discipline. It also says the use of Tulpas as sentient, imaginary friends is a recent addition to the Internet, and seems to have little to do with the actual practice.
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Z0rr0w is not online. Z0rr0w
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27 Jan 2016 07:43 PM
@Jin
http://pastebin.com/175WVfwE

Don't have the willpower to try to bypass the Roblox Thought Police. There's a tl;dr at the end for you in case your attention-span is shorter than I thought.
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hygenisthygenist9 is not online. hygenisthygenist9
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27 Jan 2016 07:55 PM
@Z0rr0w

I have Schizoaffective disorder (similar to schizophrenia) and while a person who creates a tulpa may not have schizophrenia, they are definitely psychotic and probably delusional. And I've educated myself on these words, so please realize that I don't use them flippantly.
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Z0rr0w is not online. Z0rr0w
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27 Jan 2016 07:59 PM
Oh, definitely Hygenist. I'm not arguing with that at all.
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sweetlillyrose is not online. sweetlillyrose
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27 Jan 2016 09:15 PM
oh
okay
i researched them
and
i see now

that crap is spooky as heck
i couldnt have a tulpa
im not a people person
or imaginary friend person
or anything that has the ability to talk to me person
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PurringThunder is not online. PurringThunder
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28 Jan 2016 04:39 AM
Pretty sure you don't want imaginary friends anyway, lily

Although actual friends can be a pain in the ass, it's probably better than going crazy for the sake of imaginary friends who act like real friends anyways.
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KadenRP is not online. KadenRP
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28 Jan 2016 07:18 AM
@Teka there's a list of some guides in the side
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eikoopmit is not online. eikoopmit
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28 Jan 2016 07:20 AM
So I asked a friend of mine from India about Tulpas and he said that, much like yoga, meditation and quite literally half of the New Age movement, they're a form of cultural appropriation that Americans stole from India and then completely butchered.

De jongen drinkt de melk. All you need to know is that "Jongen" means "Boy" and you've learned yourself some Dutch.
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PawzKat is not online. PawzKat
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28 Jan 2016 08:05 AM
Interesting.
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Z0rr0w is not online. Z0rr0w
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28 Jan 2016 10:25 AM
Discounting the fact that cultural appropriation is just a thing for people to complain about when they have nothing else to complain abut, your friend from India isn't the primary and sole authority on Indian culture and whether or not it's being appropriated.

This is because Indian culture isn't HIS culture, he doesn't own it, he's just a part of it. Even that much might not be true, because being from a particular country doesn't mean that you know anything about the culture of that country.

So, let's pretend that cultural appropriation is an actual thing on-par with actual issues. Are the tulpas described in this thread appropriating and butchering Indian culture? No. The tulpas described here are clearly a stem from the tree of Tibetan Buddhism, not Indian Buddhism.

Even still, the tulpas here are similar to what's in Indian Buddhism as well, since Indian Buddhism defines a tulpa as "any unreal, illusory or mind created apparition," which is what's present here.

Modern tulpas and people who create them aren't butchering or appropriating either mentioned form of Buddhism. Even if they were, I'm willing to bet money that the majority of Indians or Tibetans wouldn't care in the slightest, or even know what the Hell they're talking about.
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Ultraelite is not online. Ultraelite
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28 Jan 2016 11:05 AM
haahahahha

no
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KadenRP is not online. KadenRP
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28 Jan 2016 04:49 PM
y not?
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