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Reality isn't real
#1915187 - 09/14/03 11:21 AM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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Your thoughts are
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Re: Reality isn't real [Re: Shroomism]
#1915214 - 09/14/03 11:31 AM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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i just want to say to that our thoughts is what we think what our mind allaw us to think. i mean that if go further than my mind allow us we won't be us sorry i am fucked up with wineee come back later
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Re: Reality isn't real [Re: Shroomism]
#1915215 - 09/14/03 11:32 AM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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satan told me that once he said "everything is real in your reality" (basically the same thing) and he kept telling me "the book is made of human flesh" strange to because i dont believe in christianity, well acid is a quite the teacher. truly life altering experience
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Re: Reality isn't real [Re: Shroomism]
#1915229 - 09/14/03 11:36 AM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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All is real.Every bit of it.
Even the shit that isn't real.
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Re: Reality isn't real [Re: Solitude]
#1915230 - 09/14/03 11:37 AM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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anybody founds things enoprmus.dont make them perpose of your living. real love
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Re: Reality isn't real [Re: Shroomism]
#1915257 - 09/14/03 11:51 AM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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While it is occuring I suppose it is. Eventually, it won't be. While time exists everything is destined to become unreal.
Everything is unraveled by time.
I think.
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Re: Reality isn't real [Re: Shroomism]
#1915357 - 09/14/03 12:27 PM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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Yes and No.
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Re: Reality isn't real [Re: Shroomism]
#1915367 - 09/14/03 12:31 PM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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The way we see things is our reality, also science is built on this reality. You can't tell if the reality as we know it is how things really are(or are not )
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Re: Reality isn't real [Re: stefan]
#1915403 - 09/14/03 12:40 PM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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reality is temporary spirit is eternal
so I guess, in that way, the soul is "more real" than the external universe
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Re: Reality isn't real [Re: DoctorJ]
#1915454 - 09/14/03 01:03 PM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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great.... so we've managed to distinguish appearance/ reality. woohoo.
decartes is rolling in his grave. you guys have to get out more.
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Re: Reality isn't real [Re: Malachi]
#1915487 - 09/14/03 01:13 PM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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Malachi said: great.... so we've managed to distinguish appearance/ reality. woohoo.
decartes is rolling in his grave. you guys have to get out more.
I would go out more, but when I step outside my door, I end up in some strange, Pink Floyd-ish desert and sandworms chase me. Peace.
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Don't you hate it when that happens? I know I do.
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" I saw a special on Discover a while back in which they discussed that we are percieving our entire world just as we are those letters you've got printed above. We only see very little, we actually 'pretend' to see everything else. " Quotes from another forum
Well reality isnt real we just imagine it.
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silversoul7 said: Don't you hate it when that happens? I know I do.
I mean, all I did was see it happen on television, and I firmly believed that that happening is real, and it started to read it.. all I had to do was believe it without question, without allowing any thoughts to say otherwise, even the visual input coming in that disagreed... and I really do see sandworms now! Peace.
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Re: Reality isn't real [Re: EvilGir]
#1915538 - 09/14/03 01:30 PM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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try sleeping for bursts, waking up, sleeping etc. you get loads of crazy dreams, that really confuses you.
wow you perceive words from pattern recognition, also even numbers are no easier to use in maths than odd numbers it just seems that way because your brain has become accustomed to working like that.
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silversoul7 said: Yes and No.
Let me expand on this. I believe there are infinite "levels" or "layers" of reality. On one level, this reality is real in that we experience it as such. But there are infinite other levels of reality, far more than we can comprehend, and as such, there is way more to reality than we could possibly comprehend.
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Re: Reality isn't real [Re: stefan]
#1915597 - 09/14/03 01:57 PM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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To extrapolate.. reality is 'real' in the sense that we experience it (subjectively)..but we create that reality through our own outward projection of thought and action. The circumstances of life are an illusion... only temporary...mere obstacles and lessons to overcome. The real reality is wisdom gained through experiences, the joy shared, the connections made, and all things spirit which are eternal.
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Re: Reality isn't real [Re: Shroomism]
#1915650 - 09/14/03 02:17 PM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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well aren't our thoughts creating reality? since we're thinking up reality, and our thoughts are real, then isn't reality real?
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Re: Reality isn't real [Re: Strumpling]
#1915661 - 09/14/03 02:21 PM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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Re: Reality isn't real [Re: Strumpling]
#1915772 - 09/14/03 03:19 PM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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Strumpling said:since we're thinking up reality, and our thoughts are real, then isn't reality real?
what you think doesn't have to be real. I bet you have thoughts about things that never happened or even about things that really can't happen. Like shroomism said in the post above yours reality is how we see the world. it's subjective for some people the reality might be different then for other people. Do you know the story from Plato "the people in the cave"? Here's it in short It's about people who are prisoners in a cave and since they were born they were chained and can only look one way: to a wall of the cave. Behind them is a fire and between them and the fire people are wakling and carrying things. They see nothing but shadows accompanied with sounds. When you would release those rpisoners after years and let them see the 'real world'. They would prefer the shadows rather than the 'real' images because they've seen nothing but images for their whole life so that's their reality.
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Re: Reality isn't real [Re: stefan]
#1915779 - 09/14/03 03:23 PM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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this isn't a catch 22, it's bullshit. calling "Reality" "unreal" is just playing with words.
what you're trying to say in a verbose manner is that you're not a realist. whoopdee do. join the club, man.
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Re: Reality isn't real [Re: Malachi]
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Malachi said: this isn't a catch 22, it's bullshit. calling "Reality" "unreal" is just playing with words.
what you're trying to say in a verbose manner is that you're not a realist. whoopdee do. join the club, man.
Come on, man, miss the point again... Peace.
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I believe the only thing that is truly real within us and will stay with us when we die is our conscience...
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Re: Reality isn't real [Re: Shroomism]
#1916161 - 09/14/03 05:42 PM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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Yes, my thoughts are the only thing I can be certain exists and is "real".
"What is Real? If you define what is real as what you can see, touch, and smell then real is just electrical signals interpreted by your brain."
Morpheus said that in The Matrix, if you don't recognize it
I'm hesitant to use experience from drug usage as information in discussing what is "real"...but here's a few thoughts and observations anyway...
After a high dose of Salvia D I had my "reality" completely replaced. I was still in the same physical "place" (my room, my house) but everything was different. So different yet so incredibly real in every way my senses could detect. My computer had turned into a cardboard stand up cutout, along with everything else in my room aside from the walls (which were painted on anyway). I walked up to the prop that was my computer and ran my finger along the edge. I could see the corrugation. I could feel it. It felt solid...real. As things around me began to disappear, any noise or light emitting from the object would disappear along with the object. Utterly real.
Of every other experience I have had on every other drug I have tried, none have come close to the level of realism I encountered.
Was it real? I could barely speak for hours after my first experience, being so consumed with thought on the subject. In fact, the only reason I have to say that it wasn't "real" is that my friends were actually with me at the time and have told me what they experienced (being sober) which is, understandably, quite different from what I experienced. I was on a drug and they were sober, so I differ to their explanation as the "real" one.
I believe that what I experienced came from inside me rather than outside of me. I am forced, however, to accept the fact that at least SOME of the time my senses may not be even close to what I normally have considered "real".
What tuggs at me the most is...how can a "drug" produce such a real replacement of Reality?
I have ideas, but they are not done yet
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Re: Reality isn't real [Re: trendal]
#1916205 - 09/14/03 06:05 PM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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trendal said:I have ideas, but they are not done yet
Just a hint
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Malachi said: this isn't a catch 22, it's bullshit. calling "Reality" "unreal" is just playing with words.
what you're trying to say in a verbose manner is that you're not a realist. whoopdee do. join the club, man.
Come on, man, miss the point again... Peace.
no, you missed my point. there is no point here, just dumb speculation and idle word play. no content. lame.
you know... some people actually have thought about these issues in a context other than an drug based message board, so spouting "whoa man, like, reality isn't real man, yeah, dig it" isn't very "mind blowing" nor is it a very "deep" point to be missed.
you guys just do too many drugs and not enough actual thinking.
in an attempt to inject some actual content in an otherwise circle jerking thread...
on one "knows" what reality is. there are, however, 2 different speculative approaches to try to get a handle on "it". they are realism (aka science) and there is phenomenology. the first position denies cartesian dualism, appearance/ reality, in that the realist (the scientist) assumes that at some level, in some perception, reality is as it appears - that it can be measured, understood, that reasons can be found for why things are - even our awareness.
the phenomenologist (idealist? clarification on this issue would be appreciated), on the other hand, acknowledges only the phenomenon, the sensory experience as such, while refusing to draw primary conclusions, as the mechanism by which reality works is not apparent, but hidden. that, to me, is why these drugs we use are important, because there is the possibility of these two outlooks of meeting and even perhaps agreeing on a primitive level.
or at least that's the way I understand it, but I'd like to have any issues that I misunderstand to be corrected/ clarified.
please, no "dood, you don't get it man, everything isn't REAL man, it's like that one story by that plato dude, the allegory of the chained up doods" type pop philosophy drug induced tripe.
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Re: Reality isn't real [Re: Malachi]
#1916374 - 09/14/03 07:14 PM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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You can measure and understand (attempt to) just about anything, real or imagined. That 9-5 job...not real. Those stresses of everyday life.. don't matter. In the end, it's what your consciousness gains in wisdom from those experiences.
When you die, what car you were driving will be obsolete.
There's no solid definition of what 'real' is. Can you touch it? See it? Then it must be real right? What if it's an illusion? How can you differentiate?
Physical reality is real enough.. but only temporary. Consciousness... spirit... is eternal and forever.
Life is a learning ground and a cosmic game, don't take it so seriously.
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Re: Reality isn't real [Re: Shroomism]
#1916393 - 09/14/03 07:19 PM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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you just walked right into the hole malachi is trying to warn people about. nice one.
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Re: Reality isn't real [Re: mr crisper]
#1916404 - 09/14/03 07:25 PM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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Yes Like dude... it's not real...
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Re: Reality isn't real [Re: Shroomism]
#1916978 - 09/14/03 11:08 PM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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Shroomism said: You can measure and understand (attempt to) just about anything, real or imagined. That 9-5 job...not real. Those stresses of everyday life.. don't matter. In the end, it's what your consciousness gains in wisdom from those experiences.
When you die, what car you were driving will be obsolete.
There's no solid definition of what 'real' is. Can you touch it? See it? Then it must be real right? What if it's an illusion? How can you differentiate?
Physical reality is real enough.. but only temporary. Consciousness... spirit... is eternal and forever.
Life is a learning ground and a cosmic game, don't take it so seriously.
I really don't think that most people's problems stem from taking life's responsibilities too seriously, in fact it's quite the opposite (especially in the drug subculture). that 9-5 is what puts food on the table, what takes care of kids, and what teaches one of the hardest and most valuable of lessons: how to work, how to be goal oriented.
as for distinguishing reality from appearance.. aka cartesian dualism... that is the most important and primary task of the warrior. so to just say "it's all fake" is rather short sighted, it isn't all fake, and it isn't all real- hence the problem.
I don't agree that "life is a game". life is more than a game, it is joy, contentment, love, and purpose. come on man, you can do better than this.
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Re: Reality isn't real [Re: Malachi]
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There is more to the reality debate then realism/idealism. You can have a lot of subtle graying of the two extremes. I think an interesting study of a resolution to this conflict is Kant?s Critique of Pure Reason. Kant took Descartes dualism and exaltation of a priori knowledge and clashed it nicely with the seemingly impenetrable Newtonian physics. Toss in some Hume and his logical proof against Induction and you had the seemingly devastating philosophical paradox of how ?real? knowledge could ever be obtained in a world of appearance. Kant?s problem turned out to be bordering on a pseudo-problem when the Newtonian dominance came crashing down. Out of that devastation the two camps of realism and idealism sort of re-emerge with slightly done up new version. You have a sort of Quine and Kuhn view which purports there can be no demarcation between truth and reality and metaphysical propositions. And a Bohr and Wittgenstein inspired view of instrumentalism and pragmatism. Which is pretty much truth=usefulness and all of science and math become slaves to production, and other problems are purely ?pseudo-problems? and ?meaningless verbiage.?
So prior to Einstein, you have people claming there is no ?reality? only appearances but then this clashes with Newton (or Euclid if you need to go back further) who seem to be able to derive ?truth? from only appearance. Kant?s great solution was that we as individuals impose truth on nature through our rational filters. This is Kant?s transcendental idealism (which is neither transcendental nor idealistic). Einstein shows that neither Euclid nor Newton can be taken as absolute knowledge. And as such a lot of the old ?reality is only appearance and there is no reality? crowd can resurrect all the ideas of the past. Your rationalist and realist also seem to flounder around and seem to settle on instrumentalism as an avenue for saving empiricism.
Once again I think it took a great thinker to arrive at a compromise between these views. I take this as Karl Popper who was actually quiet influenced by the other hero of my story Kant. The Popperian compromise is to both eliminate induction and absolute truth from our knowledge. He develops this idea of conjecture and refutation, which the details get WAY outside the range of this discussion. But essentially I think he proves quiet adequately that ideas can be proven false, and as such there is a corresponding ?truth? to be discovered, even if we can never know that truth, or if we do we can never be sure of it. There is a ?real? fundamental truth that can be compared against false ideas through observed reality and sense perception. So I think the problem of the realness of reality can be summed up as ?there is something real and tangible, but we can never know it for absolute certainty but we can get closer to it by knowing what is false.?
Or as someone far more wise than I once said:
But as for certain truth, no man has known it, Nor will he know it; neither of the gods, Nor yet of all the things of which I speak. And even if by chance he were to utter The final truth, he would himself not know it; For all is but a woven web of guesses.
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Re: Reality isn't real [Re: Malachi]
#1917477 - 09/15/03 05:26 AM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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Malachi said: no, you missed my point. there is no point here, just dumb speculation and idle word play. no content. lame.
In your opinion, that is.. I myself found content! Then again, I have had some of the same conclusions myself and what he said rang true to me. You need to start using that phrase "I think" before you say stuff like "no content, lame, and about everything else you say..."
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you know... some people actually have thought about these issues in a context other than an drug based message board, so spouting "whoa man, like, reality isn't real man, yeah, dig it" isn't very "mind blowing" nor is it a very "deep" point to be missed.
Maybe it didn't blow your mind, but it got me thinking.. and maybe some people think that it is a VERY deep point! Who are you to speak for the rest of us?
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you guys just do too many drugs and not enough actual thinking.
Hhmm.. haven't done any drugs for at least two months now.. and not enough actual thinking? So, when I have a thought, it isn't me ACTUALLY thinking. So, now tell me, when you think, it IS actually thinking? I never knew that there was a right and a wrong way to think.
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no one "knows" what reality is.
Maybe because reality isn't real...
I agree with you, what you are saying about the two different sides merging into one... It would encompass both worlds and provide far more effective in our growth and understanding. Of course, there are still areas that one covers that the other can't possibly have jurisdiction in, so there would have to be a symbiotic relationship between the two.. one couldn't swallow the other and then rule all.
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please, no "dood, you don't get it man, everything isn't REAL man, it's like that one story by that plato dude, the allegory of the chained up doods" type pop philosophy drug induced tripe.
That tripe seems to make sense to me. Everything that we see and experience, test with science, we might find real, but that doesn't mean that everything we see is just a shadow on the wall... We could all be dreaming right now... Peace.
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Re: Reality isn't real [Re: Shroomism]
#1917623 - 09/15/03 08:05 AM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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"is the thought of a unicorn a real thought?" (& apologies to robert anton wilson...)
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Re: Reality isn't real [Re: stefan]
#1920677 - 09/16/03 04:13 AM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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Reality is what you make of it.
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Re: Reality isn't real [Re: Shroomism]
#1923805 - 09/16/03 11:48 PM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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Reality is in the eye of the beholder.
If you believe it's real- It's real.
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Re: Reality isn't real [Re: Murex]
#1923826 - 09/16/03 11:53 PM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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"Reality is in the eye of the beholder...If you believe it's real- It's real."
So can I extrapolate from there that there is no external "reality," or even "anything?" This is all "mind?"
-------------------- Insert an "I think" mentally in front of eveything I say that seems sketchy, because I certainly don't KNOW much. Also; feel free to yell at me. In addition: SHPONGLE
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Re: Reality isn't real [Re: Strumpling]
#1924227 - 09/17/03 02:59 AM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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Strumpling said: So can I extrapolate from there that there is no external "reality," or even "anything?" This is all "mind?"
If you want to, sure, go ahead, but I must add that I myself wouldn't want to...
You could definitely program your mind to not recognize any sort of external input. Peace.
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Re: Reality isn't real [Re: Strumpling]
#1924293 - 09/17/03 03:37 AM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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So can I extrapolate from there that there is no external "reality," or even "anything?" This is all "mind?"
I'm a firm believer in "maya". Basically if conscious beings weren't here to percieve reality,the universe would not "exist". The mind creates all things.
-------------------- People think that if you just say the word "hallucinations" it explains everything you want it to explain and eventually whatever it is you can't explain will just go away.It's just a word,it doesn't explain anything... Douglas Adams
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Re: Reality isn't real [Re: monoamine]
#1924296 - 09/17/03 03:40 AM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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monoamine said: I'm a firm believer in "maya". Basically if conscious beings weren't here to percieve reality,the universe would not "exist". The mind creates all things.
But only for that person. The reality that most everyone experiences has been ingrained into everyone so much that it is hard for it not to exist.. would it be here if we were not, or we believed in something else? Peace.
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My view is that nothing and everything is real. I think you need to differentiate things and events from the meaning placed upon them - that is sensory based observations and descriptions of what we perceive versus the interpretations and attributions imposed on them. We can agree on the existence and dimensions of particular things and that changes occur within and between things in time etc. Though in the interpretation and ascription of meaning to those events, vast differences occur. For example someone smiles. Everyone would agree that the person's lips moved in a particular way and at a certain point in time and maybe in a chronological relation to other events. Though people may differ in the selection and highlighting of what things and events are considered to be significant to determining why the person smiled. I am aware of a psychology experiment where two lecturers had an argument in a lecture theatre and all the students had to write a description of what happened. Apparently no description was the same, eg. some people blamed one lecturer, others blamed the other and some people gave a more balanced attribution of blame and different people assigned different importance to different events related to the argument.
Meaning that is ascribed to experience has been scientifically shown to be influenced by many, many things. These include mood, recent experience (what is salient), important past experiences, your pet beliefs and theories, sex, cultural and family influences and even room temperature.
Brian Cade explains it this way:
"In any given situation there are potentially limitless facets of the total gestalt of externally and internally derived experiences that can serve to recreate the original conditions that can cause a whole range of memories and associations to be "recovered". Which of these facets of experience become highlighted at any particualar time against the huge backdrop of potential associations depends on the particular conscious or less conscious concerns occupying us at that point in time.
Our particular concerns, the particular focuses derived from our frameworks for applying meaning, will through intensification separate out certain features or aspects of experience from the implicit or pentential richness of associations possible. As pattens of association become established in a particular way, so they will tend to influence the processing of subsequent experience"
The fact that a model or belief framework is adequate does not mean in any absolute sense that it is somehow true or nearer to an abslute "truth" that some other adequate model. Therefore we should believe in nothing and anything at any time! And it can be said that attributed meanings are only more or less useful or functional.
This theory is the basis for a lot of modern psych therapies. Most disorders can be treated by getting people to find evidence from thier experience against non-functional beliefs and to negate or decatastrophise (neutral) events.
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Re: Reality isn't real [Re: Malachi]
#1979728 - 10/04/03 07:21 PM (20 years, 5 months ago) |
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As far as I'm concerned, when one speaks of taking the 9-5 too seriously, it doesn't mean you shouldn't work to make money and feed your family. It means you shouldn't let the "stress" you incur harm you or your relations with others. By taking your 9-5 less seriously, you can remain open to other opportunities, and other aspects of life that may be potentially more fulfilling and personally important learning experiences than answering phones and filing reports, or whatever it is you do in this social system we have created.
You also seem to be missing the point of Cartesian dualism. Descartes thought that there was "mind-stuff" and matter... they exist in separate spaces and "we" (the mind-stuff that defines "you") are the binding of the physical with this intangible aspect of reality. Just because Cartesian dualism states that mind is created out of matter doesn't mean that matter isn't real... its just different. When Shroomism stated that "reality" is real enough, he just emphasized the much greater importance of consciousness.
When an informed person states that life is a game it doesn't imply that it doesn't "matter," rather that this life you are living in this artificial social structure isn't real in the cosmic sense.... we've created all these rules that govern social interaction. The world doesn't have to be the way we have shaped it, the summation of our consciousness has merely thrown us into one of infinite possibilities.
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Re: Reality isn't real [Re: Shroomism]
#6095606 - 09/24/06 12:18 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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All that we know and all that we live by is untrue. Religion, human thoughts and everything scientists think they have a wrap on is untrue. There is no past, there is no future and there is no failure. Everything we know, untrue completely.
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Re: Reality isn't real [Re: Shroomism]
#6095627 - 09/24/06 12:28 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Hi Shroomism!
We are the product of our minds, thoughts, and ability to function as human nature intended.
-------------------- Evolution of Time.
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Re: Reality isn't real [Re: Droz]
#6095958 - 09/24/06 03:01 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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suffice it to say the energy that bonds two things together into a third thing, the phenomenon of union (or love), the source of wholeness and oneness is more real than the actual components of the union
and human thoughts are the pinnacle expression of the machinations which draw together This & That. the fire of human thought is both The Beginning and The Ending of all unity in our reality.
it is not a persons place to understand these things. man serves as a container, a battery, and insofar as he accomplishes that he is fulfilling his duty. however, some people do find it their place to understand such things.
-------------------- Law of Love
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