Is Reality an Illusion ?

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Is Reality an Illusion ?

  1. Yes

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  2. No

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  3. Don't Know

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  1. LiteOS

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    #221 LiteOS, Sep 23, 2017
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    but most of those people starting believe this world is not the end of life or existences
    all their related knowledge of science or on the world been rethinked, and not longer think of death as death

    Im aware of brain power on our thinking, make us think everything is ok even its not
    like going religious, or calming/euphoria thinking before death, to make the person avoid suciding or harm himself

    but those persons after DMT and such seeing very different realities and emotion they never can imagine
    data and information flooding their "brain" at speed they cant describe

     
  2. MrMagic

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    Delusional people think a lot of weird things, the majority of people do not think like that
     
  3. LiteOS

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    #223 LiteOS, Sep 23, 2017
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    Long ago people was thinking the world is round were treated as Delusional
     
  4. MrMagic

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    Big difference between lack of knowledge and tin foil hat theories
     
  5. JFKI

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    Kind of like :

    :dunno:
     
  6. LiteOS

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    there no knowledge that can dismiss it yet
    or valid knowledge that can disprove this
    our knowledge on the brain activity are narrow, we still don't how the brain work fully
    we don't have the "full picture", to be certain what we seeing in those trips are fully brain activity
     
  7. MrMagic

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    Yes we do have the knowledge, no matter what "This reality" is, it is our reality, therefore it is reality

    There is no other awareness (drug free), so only loons would think otherwise, and these theories stemmed from people who got high and changed their own reality with drugs

    Dumb thread, dumb subject, even if this reality was the matrix style illusion, taking the red/blue pills doesn't work, it just ends you up being sectioned / locked up / dead, you do not wake up in the real reality

    Hollywood and drugs are the illusion
     
  8. JFKI

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    Is that we as in the majority ?
    Not so long ago the majority thought the earth was flat.
    With the pharmaceutical industry being what it is and Doctors peddling their wares I would be real interested in knowing the percentage of people who are actually "drug free".
    LOL @ the term loons. Not so long ago the mention of flight, not even space flight, would have labeled the mention-er a loon.
    Yes it is... For a closed mind.
    Two of many. ;)
     
  9. MrMagic

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    Can't be bothered to reply to each individual message there, but if having a closed mind means I think this world I live in is reality, and having an open mind means I take drugs and turn into a mental patient, then I choose a closed mind

    The earth was flat comment was already used above ^^, and some 'loons' still think it is, they must be the ones with the open minds ;)

    This reality being an illusion, the world being flat, god, Aliens, Santa, Pixies, Elves and Eskimos are all the same unable to be proved category of 'You're off your nut' :D
     
  10. JFKI

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    :D There are rumors that CERN will eventually prove you wrong. :p

    Wait! Are you saying there is no such thing as eskimos ? :eek:
     
  11. R29k

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    :laie: I love this discussion, it is unreal!

    I think some people need to read up on solipsism.
    Also this is a good link.
    Mr Magic is right to a point, if we are in it (a simulation) then it's real to us. We may never be able to tell if it is a simulation. But I think it is very shallow to not have the curiosity to wonder and the need to know!
     
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  12. MrMagic

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  15. JFKI

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    Psssst. Homer does not exist.
     
  16. MrMagic

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    Maybe not in this reality....

    Take this LSD, watch The Simpsons back2back for 10 hours, then tell me he doesn't exist
     
  17. JFKI

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    Sorry. Don't do drugs save for ibuprofen, Caffeine (in the form of coffee), and nicotine (in the form of tobacco).

    Tell me, is this real ?


    It shouldn't be. :nono:
     
  18. MrMagic

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    I'm not going to watch a woman take a dump in a store, but I would believe it was more likely to be true than someone take drugs and open their mind to somewhere that is more real than this reality

    Dumps vs drugs.... I'll say dumps are the reality in this scenario
     
  19. JFKI

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    Well, I did not realize that one had to "take drugs to open their mind". In fact that is something which is beyond my belief, although I do know that in some South American countries there are people who take DMT like drugs to enhance the openness of their minds.
     
  20. MS_User

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    is it also coded when u drop the soap in shower and bend over to get it;)