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  1. Caseus

    How do we conceive reality?

    Is there such thing as objective existence? Certainly I have never seen any. Two people will experience the same thing differently. Which is objective truth? We experience a subjective reality. Why dwell on some imaginary objective reality which nobody has ever experienced (and is thus just as...
  2. Caseus

    How do we conceive reality?

    I think it is possible to get too caught up in these abstract concepts. Nonetheless, the aim to exist in the present moment is meaningless. We cannot help existing in the present - if knowledge and wisdom, as you say, comes to those who live in the 'eternal now', we must already have these...
  3. Caseus

    How do we conceive reality?

    And yet the 'fractal eyes' are themselves part of 'absolute perfection'. If we consider our perception to be distorted, we have forgotten that all reality is perfect manifestation of God (to put it in theistic terms). There is no need to reach for some higher understanding. If we can accept...
  4. Caseus

    How do we conceive reality?

    That is fair enough, although I would go a little further. If we take God to be perfect, omnipotent and absolute, he would be incapable of making a mistake. Anything he creates would therefore be a perfect expression of himself; as the universe is thus an extension of God, there is no higher...
  5. Caseus

    How do we conceive reality?

    I would hate to think I'm nitpicking, but assuming you believe in a creator in some way distinct from his creation (the broadly Abrahamic idea), where does the creator come from? The existence of a creator beyond matter does not remove the issue of how the very first something came out of...
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