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The Nature of "Reality"
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Tumult
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The Nature of "Reality"
What are your perceptions of reality?
What intangible elements/dimensions/qualities does it contain or consist of?
What role does consciousness play in your reality?
How many dimensions do you accept?
What intangible elements/dimensions/qualities does it contain or consist of?
What role does consciousness play in your reality?
How many dimensions do you accept?
“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it”
-Max Planck
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Tumult
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Re: The Nature of "Reality"
I guess I'll put my head on the chopping block first, since I started this.
I accept the intangibility of consciousness as the medium of reality. I hold that consciousness is both the key to understanding truth as well as the lock that keeps you from truth. Enlightenment is seeking to elevate your conscious perceptions to realize the truth of oneness with all things. I accept a reality without the dimension of time. I think waves are more important than particles in understanding the nature of reality. I accept that there is a cycle to everything and contending versions of truth are attempts to perceive one's place in the cycle.
I accept the intangibility of consciousness as the medium of reality. I hold that consciousness is both the key to understanding truth as well as the lock that keeps you from truth. Enlightenment is seeking to elevate your conscious perceptions to realize the truth of oneness with all things. I accept a reality without the dimension of time. I think waves are more important than particles in understanding the nature of reality. I accept that there is a cycle to everything and contending versions of truth are attempts to perceive one's place in the cycle.
“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it”
-Max Planck
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Nebula
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Re: The Nature of "Reality"
Where do you come up with this stuff? You must be a hoot around the dinner table on Mexican night.
"Could you pass me a taco?
"What taco?
"Right in front of you."
"Are you sure there is a taco in front of me?"
"It's right there!"
"I submit there is no taco. There is simply an idealistic representation of a thought pattern contrived by neuronic impulses in your brain."
"Oh man, my brain hurts."
"What brain?"
"Could you pass me a taco?
"What taco?
"Right in front of you."
"Are you sure there is a taco in front of me?"
"It's right there!"
"I submit there is no taco. There is simply an idealistic representation of a thought pattern contrived by neuronic impulses in your brain."
"Oh man, my brain hurts."
"What brain?"
You cannot reason someone out of a position that they did not use reason to arrive at.
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Phoenix Within
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Re: The Nature of "Reality"
Tumult wrote:What are your perceptions of reality?
Usually fuzzy with a lot of grey in it.
What intangible elements/dimensions/qualities does it contain or consist of?
that depends... are the rhinoceroses supposed to be pink?
What role does consciousness play in your reality?
It tends to interfere in a lot of it.
How many dimensions do you accept?
How many you got?
So I love the Okanagan but it's a place best enjoyed from atop a very large pile of $100 bills. - Spocky
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Nebula
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Re: The Nature of "Reality"
You cannot reason someone out of a position that they did not use reason to arrive at.
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Mr Danksworth
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Re: The Nature of "Reality"
Someone's has been hitting the new age fluff a bit too much, mehinks.
Nothing on the Internet is so serious it can't be laughed at, and nothing is as laughable as people who think otherwise.
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Air Wrench
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Re: The Nature of "Reality"
*cough* *hack* *cough*...um....what?
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Air Wrench
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Re: The Nature of "Reality"
*cough* *hack* *cough*...um....what?
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Air Wrench
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Re: The Nature of "Reality"
whoa...seeing double....good stuff
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katzenjammer
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Re: The Nature of "Reality"
I believe in a reality without the dimension of time. There certainly isn't enough time. Time is getting short anyways--- sorry gota go 
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quietlywatching84
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Re: The Nature of "Reality"
no prob, you gonna pass it or pay for it?
Silence is golden and duct tape is silver.
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Air Wrench
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Re: The Nature of "Reality"
oh sorry, here you go.