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Ultimately no one knows what life is. However, even though this is the case everything here follows certain natural laws enabling organisms to make seemingly ‘intelligent’ decisions to help it survive. Is life a paradox? An apparent known reality within the unknown?

There is logic always. You just need to understand, that the logic may appear in way smaller form, than you thought.

Example.

My car is new—>The car can’t break
My car is new and it broke—>Illogical

Ant that’s where one goes wrong. In factory a small part of metal went wrong (lets act as a mechanic and say there was one small bubble in cast of one connection rod) in producing phase and it caused minor damage, which caused more damage until the car engine spat broken pieces of metal everywhere. That al is logical, when you notice the scale even thou it seems not logical, if you look it from distance.

Biggest problem in logic is that earthling believes it is the top of spieces and the world exists because of it. But the human brain is very small part on long chain of coincedences called life. And that poor thing of an thinking machine mixes the logic to something, how the owner of said brain wants to belive things are.

There is just one thing free of logic. Thats a produce of human brain. Thinking may give illogical results. Still this doesn’t change the fact that there is logic in everything.

There was a time when some black leaders complained about the lack of positive blacks on TV. It seems with all of these reality shows, there are more black people acting and being themselves than ever before for all of America to see. But like all people on reality shows, these folks (especially the women) seem to be very vain, superficial, and neurotic. Does the good outweigh the bad?

Reality TV is bad for everyone, who needs to be put down by a group of strangers in front of millions of people?

Lately, I’ve been exploring issues that might lead to causing a religious person to be worse off intellectually than if they were secular. In other words, I believe religion can make a smart person dumb. This is another possible explanation; religion causing people to think they can make up their own reality instead of accepting reality as it is. Do you think this happens? Do you think religious people do make up their own version reality instead of accepting reality as it is? And can you see how this can make a smart person dumb, because even a dumb person who accepts reality as it is, is still smarter than a smart person who rejects reality and instead believes in a made up reality, right?

"Lately, I’ve been exploring issues that might lead to causing a religious person to be worse off intellectually than if they were secular"

Wow, that IS impressive. Do tell us more.

How else can people here really learn about the reality of the world?

If this question gets reported, that further solidifies my theory, and this question is not even harsh.

people are sensitive.

The following quote is what prompted my query:

“I have to say I do believe in the account in the Bible and if I can’t find anything else in history that proves it, I’ll still believe the Bible’s account.”

This person asked for extra-biblical information about one of the stories in the Bible. Since the story is a myth, there is no extra-biblical information concerning it, yet this person openly admits that faith in that myth is more important than reality. Why? What benefits could this person possibly gain from willfully ignoring reality?

What benefits could this person possibly gain from willfully ignoring reality? The protection of a cherished belief against it destruction i..e. Emotional comfort. Why would they want that if it isn’t true? Because they aren’t really interested in truth they only like comfort, Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position but certainty is an absurd position.

I ask this because I’ve seen people profess that time is an illusion, or beliefs are an illusion, and what not.

My point is….How would I know a reality from an illusion?
If we create our own reality, do we also imagine our own illusions?

Or what?

Sorry, I’m lost again.
Phoenix: I intuitively wondered if the dream state was part of the mystery. Thank You!

Hi Blue,
There really isn’t a quick and easy answer. Well, there is, but it is so counter-intuitive and so outlandish that, without detailed explanation, any sensible person will reject it out of hand. Yet the great spiritual giants through the ages have hinted at its truth.
I’ll offer you the answer but I need to make it plain that I have not seen this for myself, well, only glimpses. I strongly recommend a book entitled, Perfect, Brilliant Stillness by David Carse. He does know!
Anyway – here is the answer as I understand it.
Everything is an illusion, absolutely all of it. We exist in what Adyashanti calls the dream state and nothing that we see is the real truth. None of it.

EDIT,
I just found this from the Japanese master, Ikkyu. He was speaking straight out of the infinite . . .

"Keep asking these deep questions, sleep on.
When you awaken even you’ll be gone."

I am aware that social construction of reality is the process by which people creatively shape reality through social interaction, but I don’t seem to completely understand. Can you explain?

The important implication of reality (or some specific thing) being socially constructed is the idea that it could’ve been something very different in a different society or group.

Executive branch is to enforcing the laws
In reality the branch uses executive orders to legislates.

Judicial branch is to interpret the laws.
In reality the Judicial branch legislates from the bench.

Legislative branch is to legislate.
In reality they are not the only ones to legislate and the branch often even passes on legislating.

It should be called the three ‘do whatever they want to’ branches.

Liberal Progressives have believed the Constitution is outmoded since the 1890’s. They take every opportunity to errode it further and trust the short memory of the voters to cover their tracks.

It is the Socialist agenda to slowly infiltrate and take the teeth out of the enemy.

Old Guy
Sick to death at hatred of America by its loudest citizens. Are you listening Madison, WI???

Is it true that too many religious people deny the existence of certain parts of God’s reality?
Is it true that too many non-religious people deny the existence of certain parts of God’s reality?
Is it possible to bridge this divide by valuing all part’s of God’s reality?

What reality? Come on genius – so far no one has been able to produce a single verifiable piece of evidence no matter how small for a god!

Contrast that with all the verifiable evidence against the claims for the god!

Academia states that in the absence of proof of the existence of something it must be deemed not to exist until verifiable proof is found – thus god is held not to exist pending some sort of verifiable evidence.

There is not one single mention of Jesus in the entire Roman record – that is right – not one! At the same time as he was supposed to have been around there were a number of Jews claiming to be the messiah – all of whom are well recorded!

There is not a single contemporary record from any source and even the bible mentions of him like all other references were not written until many years after his supposed death!

He was supposed to have been a huge problem to the Romans and produced wonderful miracles but still not one contemporary record?

Even the bible mentions of him like all other references were not written until many years after his supposed death!

Pilate is recorded in the Roman record as a somewhat lack luster man but no mention of a Jesus, a trial or crucifixion that would surely have been used to make him look brighter!

At best he was an amalgam of those others but almost certainly never existed!

The Roman Emperor Constantine produced the bible and he was a pagan not god! He took the Jewish religion and basing it on the Mithras religion, organized it into Christianity and then into the Holly Roman Catholic Church!! Not in Israel or any of the countries of supposed origin but entirely ITALIAN!

Not one word of it is contemporary with the period and was not written until several hundred years after the period the story is set in!! How did the apostles write their books more than a hundred years after they would have been dead?

What a wonder full disinformation and deception campaign he waged against his Jewish enemies by turning them into his invented Christianity – so good in fact that Christians are still following the deception to this day!

The first person to provide a shred of verifiable evidence for God will become world famous and mega rich!! Ain’t happened yet and it never will!

So how does this primitive belief survive? The answer is simple and very down to Earth

Acceptance of a supernatural claim tends to promote cooperative social relationships. This communication demonstrates a willingness to accept, without skepticism, the influence of the speaker in a way similar to a child’s acceptance of the influence of a parent. By encouraging this kind of behavior where the most intense social relationships occur it facilitates the lack of skepticism and deters more open minded thinking.

They are christian, Muslim or the other religions depending where they were born simply because they were indoctrinated by their parents as very young children. They will go on to indoctrinate their own children and those will go on to indoctrinate their grandchildren!

Atheists have the intellect to see through the conditioning and escape into the real world!

Agnostics have the intellect to see through the conditioning but lack the courage to throw of the conditioning entirely.

Sadly Christians are still held firmly prisoner by the self perpetuating brainwashing!

This question really has bugged me up. I donot understand reality. Is reality a reflection from my senses? What are my dreams? If truth is reality then how may ‘the untrue’ be defined? What is it that I can call real?

This is by far the most elusive question of man-kind, far more elusive than the many of the mysteries in our universe today. Don’t let it irritate you, it will do you no good because an answer for this is way down the road, but I would say that physicists have the best interpretation to day about this although there is much more to learn.

To answer your first question an event that can be understood to be real is anything that you can measure or follows given laws of the universe and logic. How do we know that these laws are real? They’re observed, not only by us, but by instruments that follow the same or similar laws. How do we know they’re logical? You must have flawless interpretation that violates no known laws of logic.

You’re not alone, nobody fully understands what reality really is because there are so many mysteries out there, they think they do, but they’re very ignorant if they do. Simplicity is overlooked by the mediocre mind, but scrutinized and questioned by the inquisitive.

In a sense, yes. "Your" reality is a reflection of your senses. For instance, imagine a delusional person who believes in unicorns. Unicorns are part of their reality, but not a part of reality itself.

Your dreams are pictures that your mind produces from either past experiences or desires, but we really don’t know how or why they happen.

The ‘untrue’ can be defined as anything that defies logic or empirical evidence.

What is it that you can call real? Good luck with that one.

Just remember that the absence of evidence does not mean the absence of existence. We can’t certainly prove that ghosts do or do not exist without sufficient evidence and there simply is not enough to be bias to either conclusion.

So many mysteries remain.

Why are there four forces?
Why is the standard model the way it is?
Why is gravity so different and weak from the other three forces?
What is consciousness?
Do "gut feelings" mean anything?
Is there an afterlife?

There are so many mysteries. The answers to them may be shocking and forever change our conceptualization of what reality is?

"Consciousness is unquantifiable, a ghost in the machine, barely considered real at all, though in a sense this flickering mosaic of awareness is the only true reality that we can ever know. "
- Alan Moore

"It is not the form of things that must be attended to but their spirit. The real is what matters, not the apparent. In politics, reality is that which is unseen. "
- Jose Marti

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away."
- Philip K. Dick

"A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality."
- John Lennon

"Are you really sure that a floor can’t also be a ceiling?"
- M.C. Escher