24 Jan 16
Originally posted by yo its meAnd yet there are corners of the internet (like this one) where people can choose to "share a common unreality". Problems arise when some try to change it to suit them.
We all live in different realities.
I don't believe anyone can hop into someone else's. You can look and try to understand another's but you can't jump in. You can share and /or change yours IMO, but never step out. Not really.
Some engage in online gaming, where no participant really makes their own rules, and everyone must abide by pre-ordained rules, and if they don't like those rules they can choose to simply not play.
25 Jan 16
Originally posted by JS357Seeing as, in many cases, the exercise of religion manifests itself in communal activity and meaningful social interactions and actions, I think it can be said to create and maintain a fully formed and complex reality for people and not 'stamp it out'. Not that this is always the case, of course.
So are you talking about religion?
25 Jan 16
Originally posted by FMFIn short, yes. And you'd be much better off for it.
For example, as you crawled out of your reading cubby hole and went shopping at the supermarket, would all the observations about the way people are ~ that the novels had filled your head with ~ have enhanced your understanding or appreciation of the "reality" or possible realities of the people you encounter, and even affect your interactions with them or the impressions of those interactions that you take away with you, etc.?
Originally posted by FMF“Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one's own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions
What steps can be taken?
How much success ~ realistically speaking ~ can one hope for?
more than refusing to look at reality.” ―Sheri S. Tepper, The Visitor