11-25-2017, 12:00 AM
Le_Regard wrote:
It could also be a lot like sitting down to play a videogame and it turns out the videogame is so much fun you never get back up again.
If we change that a little bit, say add that you forget it's just a video game and start calling it "reality", and that you occasionally do get up and leave the game for a short time before returning to it but call that "dreaming" and say it isn't real, then it's a pretty fair analogy.
I also don't know if INTENT can be responsible for everything that "occurs", now that I think about it.
That's because you don't know that everything has consciousness and intent. When an apple falls off a tree, it's a result of the combined intents of the apple, tree, ground, earth, air, all the atoms and molecules that make up all those things, and the intents of whatever beings decided for the force of gravity to be at play in this dream-world, (aka reality).
I could also say responsible for everything we experience. "occurs" seems to give it some measure of reality, like it occurred "for real" and not in an MMORPG.
Defining reality as what "we experience" seems to be very human-centric. Other animals have experiences which includes colors we don't see, and sounds that are too high-pitched for us to hear. Ever try to combine hundreds of images into 1? Insects with compound eyes do this. Their experiences are no less real than ours, and their reality probably looks considerably different. As Don Juan told Carlos, what people call reality is just a description. When you see, (and I hope someday you do), that everything has consciousness and it's own perceptions you'll realize just how much these descriptions can vary.
It could also be a lot like sitting down to play a videogame and it turns out the videogame is so much fun you never get back up again.
If we change that a little bit, say add that you forget it's just a video game and start calling it "reality", and that you occasionally do get up and leave the game for a short time before returning to it but call that "dreaming" and say it isn't real, then it's a pretty fair analogy.
I also don't know if INTENT can be responsible for everything that "occurs", now that I think about it.
That's because you don't know that everything has consciousness and intent. When an apple falls off a tree, it's a result of the combined intents of the apple, tree, ground, earth, air, all the atoms and molecules that make up all those things, and the intents of whatever beings decided for the force of gravity to be at play in this dream-world, (aka reality).
I could also say responsible for everything we experience. "occurs" seems to give it some measure of reality, like it occurred "for real" and not in an MMORPG.
Defining reality as what "we experience" seems to be very human-centric. Other animals have experiences which includes colors we don't see, and sounds that are too high-pitched for us to hear. Ever try to combine hundreds of images into 1? Insects with compound eyes do this. Their experiences are no less real than ours, and their reality probably looks considerably different. As Don Juan told Carlos, what people call reality is just a description. When you see, (and I hope someday you do), that everything has consciousness and it's own perceptions you'll realize just how much these descriptions can vary.