Perception=Reality

[BabyPiglet]

"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players." -As You Like It (Shakespeare)

I thought that was from the Seven Stages of Men? I am pretty sure it is.

I knew Cat would be here soon.

 

[Sparx]

Haha I guess you do. And that is true.

What do you believe the world is? What is our purpose?

I think everyone matters to someone. I think everyone affects someone, and that person affects another, and another and so on and so forth. I think its our purpose to find who we're meant to affect, or change. Some people are meant to touch more than one life, some are meant to touch one. I believe that everything has a purpose like that, not just people. Like, my keyboard for instance. Its purpose may be to let me communicate these ideas, and years from now someone will come across them and be affected by what I said.

 

[BabyPiglet]

I think everyone matters to someone. I think everyone affects someone, and that person affects another, and another and so on and so forth. I think its our purpose to find who we're meant to affect, or change. Some people are meant to touch more than one life, some are meant to touch one. I believe that everything has a purpose like that, not just people. Like, my keyboard for instance. Its purpose may be to let me communicate these ideas, and years from now someone will come across them and be affected by what I said.

Good thoughts. Everyone has a purpose to affect someone. Good idea.


I believe that we are all an experiment (yes, it's sounds weird). We were put on this planet to see what we would do. And look what we've done. We have thrived to survive, because we have fear of the unknown. We focus everything around surviving. But we humor ourselves on someone's "failure". We love to see this. The failure to survive, Death. We have made ourselves "useful" by various jobs and such. Made ourselves independent but always connected. We humans have made a life that seems so important to us, but it really is miniscule. I believe their is so much more out there.

 

[Sparx]

Good thoughts. Everyone has a purpose to affect someone. Good idea.


I believe that we are all an experiment (yes, it's sounds weird). We were put on this planet to see what we would do. And look what we've done. We have thrived to survive, because we have fear of the unknown. We focus everything around surviving. But we humor ourselves on someone's "failure". We love to see this. The failure to survive, Death. We have made ourselves "useful" by various jobs and such. Made ourselves independent but always connected. We humans have made a life that seems so important to us, but it really is miniscule. I believe their is so much more out there.

I don't believe in god. Because I believe that there is a much wider scope of things out there. so incredibly vast that it is immeasurable. And Christian beliefs don't necessarily mesh with that.

 

[BabyPiglet]

I don't believe in god. Because I believe that there is a much wider scope of things out there. so incredibly vast that it is immeasurable. And Christian beliefs don't necessarily mesh with that.

Me neither. My family is Catholic, but I don't share their beliefs.

I believe life is so much more and we don't have time to worship and invisible person. It's something we made up to take away the "unknown".

 

[Loves Disney]

I thought that was from the Seven Stages of Men? I am pretty sure it is.

I knew Cat would be here soon.

Nope. That quote is famously penned by William Shakespeare. It is also printed on the Globe Theater.

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I believe in fate. I never used to, but for a few years now I have had increased reasoning to believe everything happens for a reason and we are put on this world for a reason. Similar to what Sparx said, I have this idea about people. I think the people we meet and talk with are who they are for a reason. The friends we make are the friends we make for a reason and from them our lives take shape as they should. The people we dislike help us grow to know ourselves better by understanding what we don't like in those people and those who we admire help us become stronger in what we believe.

Life is a maze and our goal is to reach the way out. We hit turns that are dead ends but if we give up, we can never finish. We have to keep ourselves going and eventually we make right turns and we get further through the maze. The people we meet help us through the maze. Some are there to encourage us, some to give us company and a good time, others to lead us to the end and no matter what, the ones who mean the most to us will be the ones who keep us going and the ones who will change the way we look at the maze. We make the decisions on whether we should turn left or take that second right and then a sharp turn. We make the choices and those choices help us learn. Life is an endless process that if we give up on, we cannot complete.

 

[Sparx]

Me neither. My family is Catholic, but I don't share their beliefs.

I believe life is so much more and we don't have time to worship and invisible person. It's something we made up to take away the "unknown".

religion was created to explain things.
science was created to help religion. they end up discrediting each other. I think in this age, we don't need religion anymore.

Religion remains as a form of control. if you study it lacking a bias, thats what its been since the days of Christ.

 

[Columba]

I thought that was from the Seven Stages of Men? I am pretty sure it is.

I knew Cat would be here soon.

The Seven Ages of Man is a monologue from As You Like It

 

[BabyPiglet]

religion was created to explain things.
science was created to help religion. they end up discrediting each other. I think in this age, we don't need religion anymore.

Religion remains as a form of control. if you study it lacking a bias, thats what its been since the days of Christ.

Religion just confuses things. I believe Science, but I don't think Science explains much at all. Or what life is really about.

The Seven Ages of Man is a monologue from As You Like It

Oh Okay.

 

[Sparx]

Religion just confuses things. I believe Science, but I don't think Science explains much at all. Or what life is really about.



Oh Okay.

science can only explain what we open our eyes up enough to believe. we're restrained by religious 'morals' in ways which we can research. it makes it difficult.

 

[BabyPiglet]

science can only explain what we open our eyes up enough to believe. we're restrained by religious 'morals' in ways which we can research. it makes it difficult.

I agree.

 

[CastawayJ]

perseption does not = reaility

 

[BabyPiglet]

perseption does not = reaility

Your thoughts on the topic?

 

[Sparx]

perseption does not = reaility

why?

 

[Babyjustrun]

I cannot say much on this thread, as I know I'm not well informed on this, and I won't pretend I am.

I don't believe in God & Jesus, nor do I believe in any religion, so if you comment my post, leave the religious aspect of it out.

I try to not let myself think that, 'This is my world, people just happen to be in it' just because I want there to be more to that. If honestly, I am the only real one and this is the story of my life... I just feel like that makes me alone. I'm not sure why, but it does.
I find I'm very well... content with how things are. Some stuff I like to be explained but others are just better left unsaid and explained to me. I don't care about cells or scientific research, I know a carrot is orange I'm not concerned about why.

A theory, either I made up completely, or I had heard of was about time. That there was a different dimension for every moment. Like there was a place, where 6 year old Hilary was getting her hair cut, and it gets repeated. I don't believe in it though, just find it interesting.

Hilary is now going to shut up because she sounds like a babbling imbecile. She is going to read all of your posts because she enjoys reading them.

 

[DramaQueen]

Ugh....

in school now on ths DIS?!?!

lol. yeah in my philosophy course we are discussing this alot.

we just read a thing by Descartes about our perceptions on things and if it's real or not.

I don't necessarily believe perception=reality.
We all percieve things in different ways. No one will EVER be able to see the worlds through another persons eyes. We only know what WE percieve, and it is virtually impossible for us to know what the people around us percieve as real.
So what is reality? Does reality exist? If everyone has different perceptions, how could there possibly be one definite answer. How can we have a "real" reality if there are billions of people seeing things differently.

How do we know that the people who we admit into psyche wards aren't the ones who are seeing the "real" reality and the "normal" people are wrong.

In my opinion, we can never really define reality, we can never find what the "true" reality is. Because no matter how hard we try, we will NEVEr be able to explain to the person standing next to us what we percieve as real.

i hope that made sense.

 

[tinkerbell12]

I believe everything you imagine, everything around you, is real. If you can imagine it, it's possible because your mind only makes up what you can think about and if you can think about something, doesn't that mean you know it's true?

 

[DramaQueen]

I believe everything you imagine, everything around you, is real. If you can imagine it, it's possible because your mind only makes up what you can think about and if you can think about something, doesn't that mean you know it's true?

but our imaginations can think up some really wild and crazy things.
does that mean that the things we dream about at night are do-able and real?

 

[Sparx]

Ugh....

in school now on ths DIS?!?!

lol. yeah in my philosophy course we are discussing this alot.

we just read a thing by Descartes about our perceptions on things and if it's real or not.

I don't necessarily believe perception=reality.
We all percieve things in different ways. No one will EVER be able to see the worlds through another persons eyes. We only know what WE percieve, and it is virtually impossible for us to know what the people around us percieve as real.
So what is reality? Does reality exist? If everyone has different perceptions, how could there possibly be one definite answer. How can we have a "real" reality if there are billions of people seeing things differently.

How do we know that the people who we admit into psyche wards aren't the ones who are seeing the "real" reality and the "normal" people are wrong.

In my opinion, we can never really define reality, we can never find what the "true" reality is. Because no matter how hard we try, we will NEVEr be able to explain to the person standing next to us what we percieve as real.

i hope that made sense.

When you're mentally healthy, you doubt your sanity. You have thoughts like "I must be insane" "I'm going crazy" etc...

When you are crazy, you never doubt your sanity. You know you're perfectly sane.

So, are we sane because we don't think so, or are we crazy because we do?

 

[Loves Disney]

Those who are mentally unhealthy are in a lot of cases, incapable of surviving on their own. They are not able to function the way mentally stable people do. The world is run by the mentally stable and those with a stable mind out-number those who do not. Therefore, in the case Sparx presented, those who "doubt" sanity are the ones who are sane.

I must say, I really like that thought, Sparx.