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Originally posted by Nventual
I agree. I also see the irony in asking the Universe for material goods, since the Universe is a creation of God. You surely wouldn't ask God for a Lambo.
Originally posted by Nventual
Originally posted by Nventual
I agree. I also see the irony in asking the Universe for material goods, since the Universe is a creation of God. You surely wouldn't ask God for a Lambo.
Just before I get people jumping on me about God..
If you believe the Universe is some sort of living being that can grant you wishes, yet you laugh at the idea of God, then I'm sorry but you're an idiot. God IS THE living being that you call the Universe. You can't create a belief system to suit your own lifestyle.
Originally posted by Republican08
Know I have struggled between putting this in "paranormal'' and ultimately 'Psychology".
I've seen quite a few, disturbed, atsers that claim that we 'create' our own reality,
now i'm not sure if they mean that in the sense, as, if someone sees the world as a good place *optimistic* or a bad place *pessimestic*.
Or how the every growing group of people that follow the Rhonda Byrne philosophy, of creative ignorance, and ultimately, I could create a new curse word, in describing this fool.
Fooling people, relentlessly, into believe that, if they simply imagine themselves into a lamborghini, they will ultimately get a lamborghini, or with cash, or whatever lust someone has.
When all it takes is, essentially hard work, if I want a lamborghini, sitting at home picturing myself in one, does nothing, zip-zadda nothing.
Originally posted by Geladinhu
OP is full of fallacies and unnecessary judgments.
Maybe they oversimplified it on purpose, they may have distorted slightly the greatest idea ever because they were lazy to actually follow the greatest idea (of course you need to practice hard the greatest idea or else it would be no use) and by doing so they could easily fool people since the idea released was practically the same as the greatest idea, only incomplete.
Maybe it is all true, the whole karma concept and the notion that how we bahave, what type of energies we put off and where our focus lies all have a great deal to do with our outlook on life.
We create our own Reality.
If anyone has some enlightenment to add to me, it's appreciated
We create our own Reality.
I see, and i'm sure intellectual people do to, see no way of actually
being able to 'shape' 'manipulate' the universe to what we want.
It is a circular situation you find yourself in. You have a particular belief, and yet we have much evidence to suggest that belief itself is what causes observable reality to manifest in the way it does. The man in the asylum believes and perceives himself as a rich man in a mansion. You see him and you believe and perceive him as a crazy man in an asylum. What if the asylum workers also believed he was a rich man and they were his servant? At what point do you choose to say he is a crazy man or a rich man?
Consensus reality (rarely or mistakenly called "consensual reality") is an approach to answering the question "What is real?", a profound philosophical question, with answers dating back millennia; it is almost invariably used to refer to human consensus reality, though there have been mentions of feline and canine consensus reality. It gives a practical answer - reality is either what exists, or what we can agree by consensus seems to exist; the process has been (perhaps loosely and a bit imprecisely) characterised as "[w]hen enough people think something is true, it... takes on a life of its own." The term is usually used disparagingly as by implication it may mean little more than "what a group or culture chooses to believe," and may bear little or no relationship to any "true reality", and, indeed, challenges the notion of "true reality". For example, Steven Yates has characterised the idea that the United States Federal Reserve Notes (not "backed" by anything) are "really worth a dollar" as "part of what we might call our consensus-reality, [not] real reality.
The difficulty with the question stems from the concern that human beings do not in fact fully understand or agree upon the nature of knowledge or knowing, and therefore (it is often argued) it is not possible to be certain beyond doubt what is real. Accordingly, this line of logic concludes, we cannot in fact be sure beyond doubt about the nature of reality. We can, however, seek to obtain some form of consensus, with others, of what is real. We can use this to practically guide us, either on the assumption it seems to approximate some kind of valid reality, or simply because it is more "practical" than perceived alternatives. Consensus reality therefore refers to the agreed-upon concepts of reality which people in the world, or a culture or group, believe are real (or treat as real), usually based upon their common experiences as they believe them to be; anyone who does not agree with these is sometimes stated to be "in effect... living in a different world."
Throughout history this has also raised a social question: What shall we make of those who do not agree with consensus realities of others, or of the society they live in? Children have sometimes been described or viewed as "inexperience[d] with consensus reality," although with the expectation that they will come into line with it as they mature. However, the answer is more problematic as regards such people as have been characterised as eccentrics, mentally ill, divinely inspired or enlightened, or evil or demonic in nature. Alternatively, differing viewpoints may simply be put to some kind of "objective" (though the nature of "objectivity" goes to the heart of the relevant questions) test. Cognitive liberty is the freedom to be the individual's own director of the individual’s own consciousness and is fundamentally opposed to enforcement of the culturally accepted reality upon non-conforming individuals. Effects of low cognitive liberty vary from indifference to forced-medication and from social-alienation to incarceration to death.
Consensus reality in science and philosophy
Materialists
Materialists, however, may not accept the idea of there being different possible realities for different people, rather than different beliefs about one reality. So for them only the first usage of the term reality would make sense. To them, someone believing otherwise, where the facts have been properly established, might be considered delusional.
Objectivists
Objectivists, though not necessarily materialists, also reject the notion of subjective reality; they hold that while each individual may indeed have their own perception of reality, that perception has no effect on what reality actually is; in fact, if the perception of reality differs significantly from the actual reality, serious negative consequences are bound to follow.
Idealists
Some idealists, subjective idealists hold the view that there isn't one particular way things are, but rather that each person's personal reality is unique. Such idealists have the world view which says that we each create our own reality, and while most people may be in general agreement (consensus) about what reality is like, they might live in a different (or nonconsensus) reality.
Originally posted by Republican08
Or how the every growing group of people that follow the Rhonda Byrne philosophy, of creative ignorance, and ultimately, I could create a new curse word, in describing this fool.