This is all a simulation...nothing is REAL.

If all is but a dream and inconsequential with no here no there or benefit or consequence, then so is your post. Your nothing but a figment of my imagination and so is this thread therefore you offer nothing insightful or worthy of my attention. I shall go now.



one of the dumbest threads ever!

Alright Professor,

How best to believe in what you conceive?

The excitement.
Is it not exciting to read a post about a famous celebrity doing something real naughty? Or about life threatening terror or horror? If a book was written about a beautiful garden with nice vegetables and fruits and happiness it would be a total flop. Introduce a serpent or talking snake and suffering and death into the storyline and it becomes beloved literature forever!
Face it, life is dull and then you die. Unless you are a bank robber or your sister has terminal cancer or the CIA is after you, your everyday reality sucks. Especially if you have an english lawn and have to mow it.

The reality.
Our everyday waking reality consists of necessary mandated things like eating, drinking, breathing, eliminating and copulating. This activities have been programmed into us from the get-go. Other actions like gardening or killing your next door neighbor with a rusty axe are Elective activities and are all available to you to experience. In a simulation anything is up for grabs. You must remember that some things are frowned upon and you must act accordingly.

Okay, so bottom line is that you believe truth is relative, that my truths may contradict your truths, but in the end they're both correct.

I believe that is a lie.

I believe there are absolutes and laws we ought to abide by, and there are serious repercussions for not doing so. And these absolutes and laws go beyond our five senses, beyond what we can perceive.

It is written in our hearts that we are not to murder, or steal or lie. These are absolutes, these are laws. Now if truth is relative and absolutes are based on our perceptions, I could very well believe, in my reality, that it is okay to do heinous things. And also believe that there are no consequences on top of that.

As a result of such a world view, a person can live however they wish. This person will live spiritually blind, living life to serve their flesh, and to die in the end with a list of all the laws this person has broken. And not ever have to give an account to a Creator that created these absolutes and laws in the first place.

So the whole 'truth is relative' thing tells us that we are creators and are not subject to a Creator. That is a lie, and it's not a good idea to continue with such a world view.

Alright Professor,

How best to believe in what you conceive?

Why does every person's worldly philosophical opinions contradict others?

Are there no absolutes?

How can you be so sure that everything is an illusion?

Do you imagine it so, therefore it is? I wouldn't want to hang the destiny of my soul on that idea.

Close your eyes, now.
Block your ears, now.
Do not touch or smell or taste, now.

What exists for you, now.

NO THING. Nothing.

This is all a construct. It is a complete unreality. Sure, if you wanna connect with imput from without, you can. The imput does not exist, either and is only a group think from other minds. Be assured that this is not real. None of it. Chemtrails, nuclear disasters, flesh eating organisms, space aliens and on and on. Simply a construct to Attract your Attention.
Easy to prove to yourself if you wish. Go into a sensory deprivation tank with no imput. Or perhaps a quiet deep cave or cavern and meditate on nothingness. You will soon get the point.
"All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream," Edgar A Poe

Close your eyes, now.
Block your ears, now.
Do not touch or smell or taste, now.

What exists for you, now.

NO THING. Nothing.

This is all a construct. It is a complete unreality. Sure, if you wanna connect with imput from without, you can. The imput does not exist, either and is only a group think from other minds. Be assured that this is not real. None of it. Chemtrails, nuclear disasters, flesh eating organisms, space aliens and on and on. Simply a construct to Attract your Attention.
Easy to prove to yourself if you wish. Go into a sensory deprivation tank with no imput. Or perhaps a quiet deep cave or cavern and meditate on nothingness. You will soon get the point.
"All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream," Edgar A Poe

The concept of nothing cannot be grasped, so it is an empty statement. What we can grasp as being something, is as near we can truly grasp as nothing.

Sort of like "God" I suppose.

anytime someone says nothing is real...stab them viciously in the eye with a knife, and as they lay there screaming, ask them, "Is that pain real?"

Maybe then... they will get it