How it is possible to know if the human life on earth is real life or not?

Question

I think that life can be considered to be real if it has originated from the real and eternal life otherwise it cannot be real.

Answer 1

tastes like cardboard too

Answer 2

What is real life? It seems obvious that we are existing. If the lives we live are not in fact life, but a dream or predestined course of action, then it still follows that we are living some kind of life.

So, it seems that whatever the case, we are living some sort of life. Even if we are like a train set on a track being operated by a conductor, we are still experiencing something.

But in order to determine what degree of a real or qualitative life we have, we can only determine that with the revelation of God or possibly upon death.

Answer 3

lets say life on earth was made by aliens. well then the aliens were from the real life? maybe not but somewhere it had to originate from the real thing? if their is an eternal then where else could anything have come from, and where else could everything have come from?

Answer 4

Through years of intense contemplation.

Life on earth is real life, it has originated from "the real and eternal life". The physical realm is not all there is, but it is an undeniable part of it.

Answer 5

Real is personal.

My observation of something is as real to me as someone else's observation of the same thing to them. Yet their observation is ultimately irrelevant to my experience. If we are looking at the same object from two angles, mine shaded and theirs lit - they look fundamentally different, and are different views of the same thing - two different realities in fact. We all perceive things differently and recollect things that we perceive later on differently as well. This is the problem with determining what is real, or what is true.

If you think about my previous example and imagine that we had the first experience, then switched places, we may be experiencing the same view now as the other was before, but it is at a different time and therefore a different experience. I cannot replicate your experience. I can simulate it and get a good idea of what your experience was, but I will never share that exact experience. Which is what It all boils down to - personal experience. Is it real to you? Because that is all that matters.

Cheers,

Baron

Answer 6

i have a question for you: what is "the real and eternal life"? do you know? if you do, what's your basis for describing it as such(don't mention any religious crap. i don't buy that)? nobody really knows. some things on earth were meant to be left unknown. what is your basis of reality? life is too short for you to be questioning the reality of human existence. cross the bridge when you get there.

Answer 7

The act of questioning your existence is in itself proof of existence. This is the basis for Rene Descartes' famous "Cogito Ergo Sum".

From wiki:
"But I have convinced myself that there is absolutely nothing in the world, no sky, no earth, no minds, no bodies. Does it now follow that I too do not exist? No: if I convinced myself of something [or thought anything at all] then I certainly existed. But there is a deceiver of supreme power and cunning who is deliberately and constantly deceiving me. In that case I too undoubtedly exist, if he is deceiving me; and let him deceive me as much as he can, he will never bring it about that I am nothing so long as I think that I am something. So, after considering everything very thoroughly, I must finally conclude that the proposition, I am, I exist, is necessarily true whenever it is put forward by me or conceived in my mind." (AT VII 25; CSM II 16–17)

Keep in mind that this refers only to the existence of ones self, and not humanity as a whole.

Answer 8

get with the times Plato.

you know you're here and you are doubting so just pinch yourself and that reaffirms life is real--the synthesis of reason and senses.


"If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it is a duck."

not necessarily, it could just be mimicking a duck. i mean i can walk talk and act like a duck but i will be just acting, i wouldn't become a duck to do that i need the form of the duck, obtain the faults and restraints of the duck to be a duck.

Answer 9

humans are real since we are created in the imge and likeness of our CREATOR and that we have what we call spirits/souls

Answer 10

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it is a duck.

Answer 11

Self awareness is the key.