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I identify with the following words of Socrates:
“Know thyself”.
“The unexamined life is not worth living”.
I am a person who seek depth in life and living. This has been an overwhelming desire in me even since childhood. It is identified with a
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As Shakespeare once said: "The whole world is a stage and we´re just actors upon it".
Did he know then something that we didn´t know at the time but.... slowly discovering?
Reality is becoming so ill that you cannot carry out everyday chores.
Reality is bursting with love everytime you see that baby you adore.
Reality is feeling a skip in your step when that first snowdrop bursts through the cold soil of winter.
Reality is harsher to some than to others. The harsher it is the more real it becomes.
The reality of many things changes as you said Socrates as we learn more then the reality of things situations change. But out reality is what goes on around us, across the waters to someone else all could be different.
Happy New Year socrates xx
"If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences."
How can a person acquire knowledge of such a world?
How can we confirm that such a world is not an illusion?
Very practical, down-to-earth and level-headed response!
Reminds me of the quote by W.I.Thomas I mentioned earlier:
Interesting response!
What would be left after all the layers are peeled away?
"But out reality is what goes on around us, across the waters to someone else all could be different."
(I suppose it should be "our reality")
Very sensible response!
If it’s just a dream or not real, please don’t wake me up?
Happy for you!
I think that those who may claim that reality is an illusion and believe that they really exist, by extension, they themselves would be an illusion.
This will be explored further in the subsequent parts.
Thanks for your comprehensive view.
Sorry, but your guess is not correct.
Thanks for your comment anyway.
This is in keeping with the statement by W.I.Thomas:
"If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences."
Apart from each individual's personal reality, which may be considered subjective,some may claim the existence of an objective reality.
Exploration of this objective reality is said to be the domain of Science.
I must admit when I asked the question, the focus was on this so called "objective reality" of Science, which will be further examined in the subsequent parts.
This thought just occurred to me....with the consensus of each person, in essence, having their own reality..would it stand then, the lesser informed person may have a grimmer reality?
Maybe grimmer may not fit in ALL instances...but perhaps a simpler reality?
"Ignorance is bliss"...also comes to mind.
I have certainly seen many times in my life where a lack of intelligent decisions have made one's life more difficult though.
I see I got the ball rolling with my definition of existence blog.
"How and when would we know that our reality IS the truth?"
I asked the question in response to Marlindap's comment:
"I have said before that what we know is ever changing thus our reality is always changing , our reality is rarely the truth."
I wish to suggest that you should do such a blog
since you raised the matter.
Thanks for your comment.
Quite frankly, I do not think anyone knows precisely what reality and truth are.
This blog is questioning what reality is.
The same will apply to a blog entitled "What is Truth?"
I think it will generate some very interesting comments.
You seem to be a very straightforward person
and should make a good OP for the blog.
I assume you are referring to a unique direct insight into reality at such a time.