ViewtifulVampire
shishikogan
question... actually... my favorite question... what is real anyway?? i mean seriosly, is anyone really sure that your dreams arn't just as real as your sensory reality is?????? personally, i think that anything that has the ability to influence you mind in any way is real... but i'd like other opinions on it.
3nodding After watching the Matrix ten times and think about the question of reality myself I have come to a few belifs or answer. One is that reality is whatever you preceive. What you truly belief is real, will be real for one but as for somebody else probaly not. Each person has there own views on reality. As some beileve in aliens, UFO's, and spirits. While others beileve all those things are just stories. No one can really tell you what the truth is but you rather make your own reality. Some people go as far to beileve that this world is a simulation created by aliens. Now I can't tell a person who beileves that, is untrue because to that person that is the truth. Religon on the other hand is way to gather people together under one truth. Many people beileve in a deity or some sort of unearthly powerful being because it's a human need. Humans need to beileve in something that is greater than themselves, so can still wonder and have unknown mystreies can capture our imangination. That is why fanatsy novels and movies are written. But when it comes to religon it's a whole other subject. To question the deep realities of religon to question some of the most ancient and complex riddles that has confronted man. What is reality is nothing but what you preceive is real and what your mind makes out of the infomation it takes in. Sorry for taking so long...
sweatdrop I really like to dicuss philosphy...
sweatdrop just because i like to talk philosophy too, i'll give my take on 'reality'.
i disagree with you that reality is whatever you percieve it to be. i take a very buddhist stance on the issue, based on their belief that this world is a 'false reality' and that the only true 'reality' is experienced through death(there are exceptions, namely projection) this is of course based on the belief that the soul continues on after death, which i know does happen.
i do believe part of what you say is true, but only on a circumstancial basis. perception
can affect reality, but by attaining enlightenment, you see through the smoke and mirrors to truly see and perceive the world. just because you believe something is or isn't real doesn't make it so. as the popular phrase goes, "just because you dont believe in dragons doesnt mean they dont believe in you"
also, a bit on my take of the meaning of life...its been touched on here already, but nothing really well thought out or in depth.
my views are closely tied to buddhist views, but with some modifications. the general buddhist view on the meaning of life is to eventually attain enlightenment. this could or could not be true, i havent put a whole lot of thought into the destination, if you will. but i do think that the
reason we are here is to experience. i think we, as [sentient beings/spirits/what-have-you] love to experience, and this is why we bind ourselves into physical bodies with physical limitations. to be limited is to experience, especially in the grand scale of things. think of it this way; when we are born, we know nothing, but as we grow we learn and expand our scope and depth of mind. to be limited in knowledge leads to learning, which is included in the vast scope of experience.
i believe that we continue this cycle of reincarnation just for that, for the freedom(or limitation) of experience.
i guess its kind of difficult to put my personal beliefs down in writing, but i hope i got the point across. i could have added more for clarification, but i'll save it for anyone that wishes to discuss it.
