What is Reality?

Discussion in 'Existentialism' started by moka9x9, Jan 4, 2006.

  1. themnax

    themnax Senior Member

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    reality doesn't give a dam what we can or cannot prove, what we belive or disbelieve. that doesn't make perception reality. it only makes it the only window we have through which to observe its existence.

    we CAN play with reality, that is true. maybe not omnipotently but to a lesser degree we can. no, reality is what goes on existing when we don't believe in it. that is a true observation. as is "reality is an is-ness"

    reality is diverse beyond our capacity to immagine. good, bad and inbetween. off of any scale we can ever invent or immagine.

    it is not limited by our perceptions. only our perceptions are limited by our perceptions.

    nothing has to exist, even our selves, not exist, nor be limited by our perceptions. that is reality.

    it doesn't stop anything from existing. it doesn't stop anything from ceasing to exist.

    =^^=
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  2. Soberbeah

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    it's all a dream, an intricate web that drifts in and out of objectivity and subjectivity.


    hosh posh if you ask me
     
  3. tikoo

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    i think it's ok to divide existence from reality as terms of relationship . existence , i reason , has a wholeness and i cannot presume to feel it all . reality is an active relationship pos/neg toward that wholeness . i want to feel it all , i can be willful about this , accepting the known and the unknown and , too , the buggerdly unknowable . mostly , this makes life a part-time job since actually being pos. too much makes for weird obsessions .
     
  4. TommyT

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    _OUR_ Reality is energy wrapped around time traveling in an infinite number of spacial dimensions. All entities spinning relatively. The combinations make laws of existance (physics, evolution, primal urges, etc) which themselves change over the period of their existance to eventually balance into 'nothing'.

    Our reality is connected to a higher plane of existance without time. The higher existance is a collection of every possibility and impossibility waiting to happen.

    Our reality can also connect to this higher reality as there are no limits to any existance.

    Humans being simply a probable event in this reality.

    Everything is predefined but impossible to predict as is the beauty of existance.

    All the choices you make define how you see yourself and you made them all.

    ... Just my view anyway.
     
  5. TommyT

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    Oh yeah and there is infinitely more to it than what I just went off on one about..
     
  6. tikoo

    tikoo Senior Member

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    infinity : continuance of the cycle
    infinitely more : the cycle is strong , life is more and more
    the purpose of life : motion positive
     
  7. TommyT

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    If you can't think beyond relativity, my sympathies to you. :(
     
  8. alex714

    alex714 To the Left

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    The smartest man knows the limits of his knowledge, which doesn't exactly imply knowing nothing. And Socrates never said that.
     
  9. TommyT

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    nothing in comparison.
     
  10. prismatism

    prismatism loves you

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    relativity is the only thing that isn't real. it's the biggest illusion, and most people live in it completely. it's sad.
     
  11. TommyT

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    I believe in relativity, infact I find it hard to imagine non relativity, after experiencing LSD I'm pretty sure I'm relative to myself - but - I'm even more certain that relativity only touches the surface of existance.
     
  12. prismatism

    prismatism loves you

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    well, if you think about relativity for a long time you won't know exactly how to measure it or what it means. time is location relative to another thing's location (like the sun). distance is a number of "how many" can fit between one thing and another. but if you think, "how many can fit in the universe?", there is no answer. it just keeps going and there is no absolute end or beginning, nothing that is the biggest or smallest. and there is nothing that is nothing. so everything is the same, and everything is absolute.

    our entire basis for time measurement is extremely flawed. if you any research at all, you'll learn your whole perception of time is meaningless.

    i'll go into it more but there's a bunch of chaos going on around me and i can't think x__x
     
  13. TommyT

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    I'm too mashed to explain in detail.. so:
     
  14. Dr Phibes

    Dr Phibes Banned

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    or just about anything that makes some sense I guess, how about phenomonology (Husserl) or some metphysics
     

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