Life is not a simulated circumstance. If it was, we all could simply simulate riches and happiness and eliminate hunger and wars and hate.
The other side to the coin…when proof of real world circumstance is given in large quantities..practically every single day..there are those who still tuck the head into the sand and pretend a reality.
Either it is a mental issue, or simply a fear issue of what really is and hiding is preferred.
An individual is defined by actions..not words. In times when defining a thing or someone can be morphed at the moment to fit an agenda, it’s obvious the one doing the morph dance is the one needing a refinement.
Stand up for truth and reality..or cower down into submission because it’s easier and requires no exercising of the mass on top.
Maybe that’s why there is a false premise in many..that everything is fine. Perhaps….just perhaps in a virtual reality many put themselves into..so much so and for so long it becomes their reality to no ends.
Better to hide in the corner than stand out and be noticed, and note the faults causing reality to be crashing down.
It applies to any issue, any topic, any field. Perhaps this is the infancy mankind must outgrow. Once that happens, perhaps our futures will be a lot brighter. Swallow the ego and premise of be all end all and admit that we/you are not.
The beginning of wisdom begins with not knowing and admitting to not knowing.
Maybe in another couple hundred years the mental state of mankind will grow out of it’s infancy.
This is more of an editorial commentary and requires no response here. The best place to respond is within your own heads and let that fight the battle within instead of dragging it out where it is useless.
Look in the mirror…see where the problems really are.
Look in the mirror…see where the solutions must come from.
Eyes open, mind open, ears open….mouth shut.
See things for what they are, not what they are not to appease your comfy zone.
Fill the void with something useful instead of cluttering it up with uselessness.
Editorial approved by the sane, the aware and the awake.
RFB
What is Real?
Just to note that people a long time ago who based their conclusions only on their real world experience concluded that the earth was flat, and was at the center of the universe.
Simulated Power
Rich has paved the way into a philosophical discussion on the subject opened by RFB.
In his opening paragraph RFB said:
“Life is not a simulated circumstance. If it was, we all could simply simulate riches and happiness and eliminate hunger and wars and hate.”
As it turns out, life is a simulated circumstance. Our minds invert the world into an internal impression which is, at best, a simulation of the world without.
RFB’s second sentence bestows enormous power upon “simulation”, claiming that it could be used to achieve wealth and eliminate tribulation.
But in reality, since the world is a simulation in our own minds, the closest we come to a better life is in being capable of imagining what a better life would be. All attempts to achieve it must be done out in the “real” world, through great struggle.
The best way to bridge the virtual with the real is with part 15 radio.
RFB’s point is that you have
RFB’s point is that you have to accept observations from the real world over and above any simulation (simulations are built with the answers in mind).
There was nothing wrong in deducing that the world was flat, based on the limited observations of that particular time. What WAS wrong sometime later was ignoring contradictory evidence from the real world, because, in the minds of the powers that be, they just couldn’t be true (i.e., we ARE the center of the universe, we MUST BE the center of the universe, etc., GOD made us the center of the universe).
The world is a wonderful place, full of mysteries, some of which may never be solved (I have to laugh when some scientist or other comes out with the silly statement that we are close to knowing everything there is to know). It’s closed mindedness that is the real enemy, that stops us from moving forward, and truly learning.
I Appreciate All of It
I truly enjoyed RFB’s opening post, and have only responded to the first paragraph, so far.
I reserve the right to come back on all the other parts of what he said.
And Artisan Radio has put it well, the reference to “closed mindedness”.
In fact, closed mindedness is used as a weapon to attack thinkers.
The closed minded should be sent for enhanced interrogation rendering at FEMA re-education camps.
Wait, hold on….
I think I have that backwards. The exact opposite is happening.
More thinking is needed.
Wonderful thread… reality
Wonderful thread… reality is what we make it… that’s why I believe my TH5 is a hundred-thousand watt transmitter….