Reality, any more, has come into question. What is real, and what is perceived as real are not the same thing.
For all we know, we could be hooked up to the Matrix right now. My opinion on life is that reality is only as real as you think it is. Our senses... to touch, to see, to hear... they can lie to us.
What if, perhaps, this entire world were nothing but a lie, and there is a greater truth beyond it?
Ponder those questions, but for now let me move on to my main point.
Is the reality that we perceive to be real... the "real world," the world in which we live, breathe... any different from the world you and I are in right now? True, it is not tangible... but it is real, nevertheless. We cannot feel, we cannot sense our way through this world, but it is nevertheless another world completely. Who is to say, then, that this world is completely insignificant?
Who is to say that the real world we live in now is significant at all? What do we do to measure it's significance?
The internet is a way to socialize, and it is invariably the largest social network ever created. Why? Well, in reality, you can only stuff so many bodies into the hearing range of one another... on the internet, your voice doesn't die out in the distance. It is heard. Always.
So before you all say "I have no life, lulz, because I use the internet," consider the fact that you do have a life... a new life, in a new world, full of very new things that many people are missing out on because they choose to cling to old ways of life.
But I'm preaching to the choir, right? See this topic as confirmation from a logical, analytical, intelligent individual that what you're doing isn't wasting your life... it's just living it in a different way.
quick edit: It's almost 4 AM and I didn't proofread this. <3
I've always pondered the stability of what we think of as reality, but I assume one can only observe true reality once they reach the afterlife (if you believe in that sort of thing.)
I don't think it's significant at all. Everything, is just a big chain of events. Exlosion, planet formed at the right spot, life started perhaps from some mattter like watter, split into difrent strains, Then evolved into today. And considering that space is limitless, there is proboly another place like this, still devolpoing, or, been around longer then us.
If you die in a game, the screen goes black and you're forced to pay attention to real life. If we die in real life and get forced into another life, what then?
But I'm not suggesting that. Just what-ifs. I honestly believe that dead is dead, the end of the end.
Reality is easily proven, or so it seems. At the same time, who knows! Perhaps we are meer entities of another mind. Perhaps the one who some refer to as God is actually the greatest video game producer ever and we are his RPG. Who knows.
What I say, is that reality is never true, nor is it false. Reality is what it is, an enigmatic figment of something that is there. I think that reality is many possiblilities at the same time, with no true answer.
REALITY IS REAL LIFE, IDIOT. REAL LIFE IS NOT THE INTERNETZ.
END. OF. DISCUSSION!
I'm glad you assisted me in coming to a conclusion.
...Why don't you just go and make convenient use of your time by getting kidnapped by Tatanga again? It would make ALL of us VERY happy, and it would make the world a MUCH better place!
REALITY IS REAL LIFE, IDIOT. REAL LIFE IS NOT THE INTERNETZ.
END. OF. DISCUSSION!
I'm glad you assisted me in coming to a conclusion.
...Why don't you just go and make convenient use of your time by getting kidnapped by Tatanga again? It would make ALL of us VERY happy, and it would make the world a MUCH better place!
Because I'm not Daisy D:
That was a clever disguise.
I never really WAS on your side... *straightens tie*
REALITY IS REAL LIFE, IDIOT. REAL LIFE IS NOT THE INTERNETZ.
END. OF. DISCUSSION!
I'm glad you assisted me in coming to a conclusion.
...Why don't you just go and make convenient use of your time by getting kidnapped by Tatanga again? It would make ALL of us VERY happy, and it would make the world a MUCH better place!
Because I'm not Daisy D:
That was a clever disguise.
I never really WAS on your side... *straightens tie*
I feel that the message this video gives is appropriate:
The french philosopher Descarted pretty much exemplified this with his "brain in a vat" theorem. You can read up on it at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_in_a_vat . I myself think that if that was true, I'd still have a soul, and my life the same amount of meaning as before.
