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 What is reality? (17)

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What is reality?

Just so you know, I'm being serious. What do you think reality is?

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5 points

What if all we see isn’t really reality?

What if all of our nightmares are just glimpses of what it truly is?

Glimpses of shadows, of monsters, of fire fights

Nothing to wake you from the endless night

Everything bad that can happen happens.

What would happen if everything was good?

No sadness, no madness, no evil at all.

Only chaos comes from goodness

Overgrowth, exhaustion, consumption

Nothing survives when only goodness is around

No balance, just madness, leaving nothing alive.

This is my nightmare,

Goodness consuming all.

This is my nightmare,

Everything shall fall.

What if what we see is anything but reality?

And out nightmares are what reality truly is?

Would we even be able to handle it?

Or would our feeble minds just crumble under the thought of it?

Nightmares are just glimpses of reality.

The reality we think we see,

Is nothing but what we dream it to be.

4 points

I have a hard time trying to engage this question if I decide to shove my favorite quotes right back up my sleeves.

I'll try and start from the beginning.

To define something is to say what it is not, rather than describing what it looks it, it is showing the thing itself, rather than fencing it with limits after which it becomes something else.

In this case, reality is more an approach to life, and what life brings with it, than a group of things that could identify itself in contrast to some other scapegoat group.

If you defy reality, than by the definition of what you have decided on doing, you are moving stuff out of the 'everything' to something you do not call 'reality' any more, rather - you call it 'fiction', or 'lunacy', 'blasphemy', 'stupidity'.

This way the notion of 'Betterment' attaches to your idea of 'reality', and you are better off.

Direct experience should be considered here, and everything else as an unconfirmed rumor. Because it is the experience of the information that matters and happens before the describing of it. This way, there is no war in Georgia. I HAVE READ that there is a war in Georgia.

An interesting thought is that while talking on chat, some people won't question the person they were talking to if the conversation was between the allegedly participators, when they meet face to face.

In the first Matrix movie, Neo is summoned into a program with a red leather chair and a TV, and he denies it from being real.

But unlike most of our denials, he is there. Experiencing it in parallel with a murderous disbelief. I believe this is what happens when one refuses to surrender a psychedelic trip. Breath, neo! Just breath.

In the matrix the line between the real and the matrix was a plot tool, a dialogue tool. I don't know for certain if in a different from the Matrix scenario - would I take the red or the blue pill, because it doesn't matter to me what reality I'm in, in a sense that if there is no linear scale, if none of the realities can be fact-based-on called 'realer', as long as your choice reality isn't prohibited or demonized, what difference does it - really - make?

I wouldn't guess who that was but someone said once that if we had any direct use of molecules and electrons, we would've see through matter. There wouldn't even be a notion of matter, density and proportion would substitute space and size. And if we were in the size of the sun, what would be the sense in palpation? The marks on the keyboard are definitely a part of my reality right now, if I allow it to be.

And maybe to 'allow' wouldn't be the best choice of describing the hierarchy between the receiver and the thing that apparently is being received.

And this notion of control over things that are much much greater and much ever more like the raw materials of us humans, to me - has something to do with the identity crises so many of us undergo.

To be a modern man, one should restraint his feeling, in a way that the restraining will not be visible to the subject of desire, and to move it out of the way for modern seducing techniques.

To be a cool man, one should adjust his mind, in a way that the adjusting will not be visible to the co-adjustees, and to move it out of way for cool social techniques.

Side: everything
3 points

Reality is what we view as being "real." For most people, it's what we observe through our senses.

But some people would also include the supernatural (if their religion includes it) as part of reality. This brings up the question: Is reality the same for everyone? Or does everyone have their own reality?

Side: the senses
0 points

So what is real? Even if it is supernatural... what is "real".

Side: the senses
3 points

Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream

merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily

life is but a dream...

Supporting Evidence: Solipsism (en.wikipedia.org)
Side: the senses
Bradf0rd(1431) Disputed
0 points

Even dreams are real. Even if life is a dream, what is producing it?

Side: the senses
2 points

Wikipedia says it best:

"Reality, in everyday usage, means "the state of things as they actually exist". The term reality, in its widest sense, includes everything that is, whether or not it is observable or comprehensible. Reality in this sense may include both being and nothingness, whereas existence is often restricted to being (compare with nature). In other words, "reality", as a philosophical category includes the formal concept of "nothingness" and articulations and combinations of it with other concepts (those possessing extension in physical objects or processes for example).

In the strict sense of western philosophy, there are levels or gradation to the nature and conception of reality. These levels include, from the most subjective to the most rigorous: phenomenological reality, truth, fact, and axiom."

Supporting Evidence: Reality (en.wikipedia.org)
Side: Wikipedia
1 point

reality is the truth and hw things really are denieltrying to prevetn reality from ever being there.

Side: everything
Bradf0rd(1431) Disputed
0 points

Reality is the truth and how things really are denial trying to prevent reality from even being there.

What does that mean exactly?

Side: everything

Reality is subjective truth.

Side: Subjective truth
Bradf0rd(1431) Disputed
0 points

I get your point but you basically just barrel rolled that question. You said that it's subjective, and by that I take it you mean, because it's perceived by life that doesn't have the equipment to fully or perhaps barely grasp it.

Truth is just a way of saying reality then. This doesn't explain what you think reality is. If you mean that it's just truth, what is truth. Try explaining that and you'll find that it's a lot harder than it seems.

What is the truth? That's the question.

Side: Subjective truth
0 points

It could be that truth is just a way of saying reality. I said that reality is subjective truth which to me means that reality is one's personal truth. The truth is relative to one's capacity or capability of encapsulating the many facets of reality into one truth or vice versa. So reality or truth is what YOU believe it to be...it's subjective and there is not one answer, there are many.

Side: Subjective truth
0 points

Reality is relative. For me, it's everything I can touch and see right now. Of course, I might be dreaming all of it - hence the qualifier.

Side: Where you don't live