What exactly is reality?

[King Alboin]

I'm not gonna touch on the whole "does reality exist" concept because it seems kind of pointless to me. If it doesn't exist then whatever does exist I'm part of and that's all I really need to know. And if I don't exist then I don't exist so the existance of reality doesn't exactly impact me.

"What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet."



Well technically if you believe in God i think it said we were made to keep him company, but then Adam and Eve ate the fruit and that opened up the whole destruction business. We weren't created self destructive, we chose to become it. Kinda sucks actually. That's where all the flaws stem from too.

Idt the point to our existance was ever to destroy ourselves. But it's what we're doing. And if you believe in God or not, then as chinothepony said, we try and distance ourselves from him but I think it's more because we crave our independance than because we want him on a pedestal. And the problem with that is if he does exist, we've now isolated ourselves from him (and though he would help, we won't let him); if he doesn't then basically we're wasting our energy trying to deny a being that doesn't exist.

I think the point to any human being is simply to live, love, reproduce, and take care of the earth and the people around them as best they can-- as cliche as that may sound. But we all view ourselves as being unfulfilled. We all want answers to questions that have already been answered in a way we're just not satisfied with.

But I can't speak for everyone. As far as I'm concerned, if you can't find the meaning in your own life, then you're probably looking in the wrong places. Until you feel satisfied with your own existance, it's kind of hard to try and explain everybody else's, neh?

I've lost my train of thought now so I'm gonna leave it there. Hopefully some part of that made some sort of sense.

"... paid to much for my carpet...." that should make the best quote ever, cuz thats funny.

Interesting discusion on phenomenology. Hmm. I completly agree with you only to add a quote from Socrates in Plato's Apology.

"I go to die, you to live. Which is best? God only knows."

And a poem i just made up;`

If in the mind of God
We are found
Then the illusion
Is real

If in the mind of men
We are found
Then the real
Is illusion


(note: yeah sorry alex i had to delete it and do a redo cuz i messedup on who originally said it and my white out spilled so i think i got it rite now.)