Does what you believe change reality? Can there be one reality for you and a different reality for me?
2006-12-04 13:37:55 · 29 answers · asked by ? 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No, reality exists separate from our beliefs concerning it, as well as our observations of it. It does not depend on us for existence. A tree that I see in my yard will not disappear because you "choose" to disbelieve it is a tree.
2006-12-04 13:40:45 · answer #1 · answered by MamaBear 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
What you experience is your reality....that is, it is your perception of reality. What I experience is my reality...my perception of reality. It has been found by objective observers that the same event can be observed differently by different people. I think that this demonstrates that each one of us can make an error when using our senses to understand what is going on around us.
When we speak of truth, I think most people are thinking about truth that has no untruth in it. Let's just call that absolute truth. Many people believe God knows absolute truth and that God is not misled or make errors of perception about what is happening.
Here's my answer to some of your questions: to know absolute truth, learn to know God.
The question I think I have not answered is: Does what you believe change reality? The creator God is the only one who can create true reality, whether that reality is yours or mine. I answer in this way because the only reality I will accept is reality created by God. I will not accept a reality perceived by someone's senses, which can be fooled. I will only accept reality revealed to me by God.
2006-12-04 21:55:39 · answer #2 · answered by Piguy 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In a sense. One's reality encompasses all the sensory experience of one's life, and yours is obviously different from mine. The things that we call truth are characterized by wide agreement among many observers, so that the individual perturbations cancel out. But the existence of wide agreement does not necessarily entail YOUR agreement.
2006-12-04 21:51:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
As, I believe, Milton once wrote in _Areopagitica_: "Is it not impossible that she [Truth] may have more shapes than one?"
Reality is reality, but perceptions of that reality can differ greatly.
2006-12-04 21:45:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Absolutely.
There is an uncrossable divide between the truth of fundamentalists and the truth of progressives, for example; the truth of how each experiences the world.
That is not to say that materially the world is a different thing for each, but the experience is the "truth", and that's what we react to.
2006-12-04 22:04:48 · answer #5 · answered by Praise Singer 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, because each of us defines reality by what we are exposed to - it shapes our world, and colors all that we see.
A simple example: Reality for my cat consists only of my house, since he has never been outside. Reality for the stray cat outside, in the cold, is a far different thing. Both see the world their way, and both are technically correct.
2006-12-04 21:43:01 · answer #6 · answered by mvsopen 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The word truth has been taken apart and reassembled untill it has no meaning. Just a positive energy is left but has no single tangible definition. I do believe that there is one order to all of life, and many ways to get there.
2006-12-04 21:42:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
That idea is self-referentially incoherent. Taken to its logical conclusion, there is no meaning in language, thought, or experience at all.
In short, if we can read and understand your question, our realities are shared to such an extent that the thesis is made false.
2006-12-04 21:41:44 · answer #8 · answered by Aspurtaime Dog Sneeze 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No what I believe does not change reality down here but what I believe will change where I will spend eternity
2006-12-04 21:41:23 · answer #9 · answered by revfergy 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
There's only GOD'S reality if we're talking about Salvation and TRUTH.
2006-12-04 21:43:23 · answer #10 · answered by lookn2cjc 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋