Is life just an illusion?

[m_m]

Just now, swansont said:

So if I hit you upside the head with a club it would hurt less if I called the club a pillow? Or I called it a hug instead of a vicious blow?

This is what is happening in the world now, senses are being changed. 

And to not lose a sense of reality I decided for myself that one needs to stick true values. 

1984 tells about values and senses.

 

[m_m]

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How would you tell the difference?

I was thinking about this question. I must say it is quite cynical one. Because it supposed to mean that you know how our world, i.e. our mind is created. But you don't. And nobody knows how our world is created. 

The fact of our reality astonishes me every day. And how magnificent our mind is. Yes, everything is in our mind, and it may seem that life is a dream. But at the same time it is so brightly real, love is real, and pain is real. 

And if you think that everything is a dream, or a simulation, etc, etc..don't eat, don't drink water, don't go to the shower, because sweat is illusive, and don't forget that your feelings are simulated, and what is more- feelings (love, for example) of others towards you are simulated. Keep that in mind.

[dimreepr]

14 hours ago, m_m said:

This is what is happening in the world now, senses are being changed. 

And to not lose a sense of reality I decided for myself that one needs to stick true values. 

Senses aren't being changed, other than in the sense of evolution.

Which sense gives you a sense of reality? smell etc.?

You can't decide for yourself what a true value is, it takes a culture to decide that... 

1 hour ago, m_m said:

I was thinking about this question. I must say it is quite cynical one. Because it supposed to mean that you know how our world, i.e. our mind is created. But you don't. And nobody knows how our world is created. 

you don't have to know bc no-one can, you just have to have faith in the presumption that, if fire hurts me and all the people on the news, it's probably real... 😉

Edited 18 hours ago by dimreepr

[iNow]

2 hours ago, m_m said:

everything is in our mind

And yet those things continue existing even when your mind is gone

The map is not the territory