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MadMan
 
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 Reality 
#11300091 - 10/22/09 02:38 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Is reality subjective, objective, both or neither?
I.e. is reality different for every one, is it the same or are different aspects different for every whilst still
keeping similar aspects. If both then HOW subjective or objective is it ?
What do you guys think ?
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 DieCommie
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 Re: Reality [Re: Dune]
#11300115 - 10/22/09 02:41 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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I think reality is defined as objective. Reality is that which exists regardless, or outside of perception.
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laserpig
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DieCommie said:
Reality is that which exists regardless, or outside of perception.
In other words, the only real reality can never be confirmed to exist?
That's not good news. 
Seriously though, I don't really get the question. The universe exists, and this is how it looks to me. What are you actually asking about that situation?
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Ahimsa
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Re: Reality [Re: Dune]
#11300380 - 10/22/09 03:15 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Reality is what we are. It is not different from anything, because it is everything. Reality is not inside us nor is it outside us, because for reality there are no sides. For reality there is only itself, and that's why it isn't realized.
Reality is the awareness of itself. It is real only to itself. As soon as we try to see ourself separated from it then we become only a thought. We may have thoughts but we never are them.
Be real, be the reality you always were.
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Poid
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Re: Reality [Re: Dune]
#11300638 - 10/22/09 03:50 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Dune said:
Is reality subjective, objective, both or neither?
Reality is everything, including experiential subjective experiences.
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Dune said:
I.e. is reality different for every one...
In terms of subjective experience, yes.
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Dune said:
...is it the same or are different aspects different for every whilst still keeping similar aspects.
I don't think this, and would like to see you further explain this line of thought.
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Dune said:
If both then HOW subjective or objective is it ?
This question does not really make too much sense to me: Subjectivity/objectivity are phenomenon of qualitative value, not quantitative value.
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Dune said:
What do you guys think ?
Honestly, so far, I think it's BS. If you'd like to explain yourself further, then maybe I'll change my mind. 
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Re: Reality [Re: Poid]
#11301157 - 10/22/09 05:12 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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I wans't really trying to state my views, i was just trying to find out other's views. I personally believe that reality is different for every one as the only way we can experience 'reality' is through our senses, and since everybodies senses are individual and can change so readily (through the use of psychoactives) then no two people can truly experience the same thing.
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Re: Reality [Re: Dune]
#11301228 - 10/22/09 05:24 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Dune said:
I wans't really trying to state my views, i was just trying to find out other's views.
So you weren't trying to debate in a debate-oriented forum? 
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Dune said:
I personally believe that reality is different for every one as the only way we can experience 'reality' is through our senses...
I think this is an obvious truth, that subjective reality is different for everyone.
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Dune said:
....and since everybodies senses are individual and can change so readily (through the use of psychoactives) then no two people can truly experience the same thing.
It almost seems like you had a point here! 
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Well I try my best to be just like I am, but everybody wants you to be just like them. -- Bob Dylanfireworks_god said:It's one thing to simply enjoy a style of life that one enjoys, but it's another thing altogether to refer to another person's choice as "wrong" or to rationalize their behavior as being pathological or resulting from some sort of inadequacy or failing so as to create a sense of superiority or separation as yet another projection of a personal fear or control issue.
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DieCommie
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Quote:
laserpig said:
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DieCommie said:
Reality is that which exists regardless, or outside of perception.
In other words, the only real reality can never be confirmed to exist?
That's not good news.
Its not? Im not sure about it never being confirmed... In my book very high percentages of likelihood are sufficient to being confirmed.
Regardless, I cant think of any better word to describe that which exists outside of perception (whether or not it actually exists). If its not reality then what is it?
Edited by DieCommie (10/22/09 09:16 PM)
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Chronic7
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Re: Reality [Re: Dune]
#11304424 - 10/23/09 04:28 AM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
Dune said:
Is reality subjective, objective, both or neither?
I.e. is reality different for every one, is it the same or are different aspects different for every whilst still
keeping similar aspects. If both then HOW subjective or objective is it ?
What do you guys think ?
For something to be really termed 'Reality' it must be relaible, consistent & permanent
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Lakefingers
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Chronic777 said:
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Dune said:
Is reality subjective, objective, both or neither?
I.e. is reality different for every one, is it the same or are different aspects different for every whilst still
keeping similar aspects. If both then HOW subjective or objective is it ?
What do you guys think ?
For something to be really termed 'Reality' it must be relaible, consistent & permanent
Why?
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Chronic7
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How else can it be called Reality unless it is permanent?
If a temporary object apepars & you take it to be real, when the object dis-appears, then along with it goes its reality
Of course you can make relative arguments, but those arguements are just as fleeting & unreal, as is this one im making now
All of it eventually goes 'poof!'
Whatever goes 'poof!' is unreal
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Xeny
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Chronic777 said:
How else can it be called Reality unless it is permanent?
If a temporary object apepars & you take it to be real, when the object dis-appears, then along with it goes its reality
So reality doesn't exist, nothing is real?
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Edited by Xeny (10/23/09 05:29 AM)
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#11304517 - 10/23/09 06:00 AM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Chronic7
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Reality is Awareness
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Kukaracha
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Re: Reality [Re: Dune]
#11305432 - 10/23/09 10:51 AM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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I think reality is objective.
It's the belief that you and similar beings are living in the same wordl; it implies that you live similar experiences.
In the absolute, reality is a belief, but I don't think you can say that it's "subjective to everyone", or else it would mean that similar beings exist around you but they live in different worlds (how do you know there are different beings if you don't share anything?).
It wouldn't be solipsism as you think that you're not alone, but it wouldn't be the common definition of reality as you have nothing in common with other beings.
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Ahimsa
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How can there be a person to whom reality is permanent?
Does this person stand outside of reality, so that he/she can look upon it as permanent or impermanent?
Doesn't that imply that the person is an imagined entity?
To whom does reality appear?
If reality is all, who could perceive it as being separate from him-/herself?
I wonder.
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Chronic7
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Re: Reality [Re: Ahimsa]
#11305828 - 10/23/09 12:19 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Ahimsa said:
To whom does reality appear?
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Band of Gypsys
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Reality appears to the observer.
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Chronic7
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Who is the observer?
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Ahimsa
µdose
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Isn't the observer that very same reality?
If so, isn't the observance not an illusion of reality?
If not, is the observer separate from reality, and therefore unreal?
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