I look around and see people always stuck on having an explaination for everything, which turns out to be the most ironic thing ever, because they have little basis on their beliefs to prove it to be reality. Why should others believe what you do because your beliefs are the "only truth?" Maybe they are, maybe they're not. You have no proof either way because every "fact" is based on belief in some way.
2006-12-22 06:16:11 · 10 answers · asked by Gray 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
This might sound blasphemous but people always have their own reality. Each person's reality is a little different because everyone is their own God of their own universe and making up their own reality as they go along in life. As for truth and universal reality that would depend on if two or more people agreed on the same version of reality.
2006-12-22 06:25:02 · answer #1 · answered by Fawn M 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
First of all, it sounds like you've answered your own question. Secondly, the way I see it, the only way you know something abstract is real is by belief. And the more people that believe it, the more likely it is to be taken as fact. And you are 100% correct in stating that every fact is based on belief, but some would argue that how could a fact be a fact unless it is also a belief?
Not that if I deny that the color brown is brown, that makes me right, but if we all start calling brown white, in essence, brown has become white because we believe it. Some will argue that just cause we call it "white " doesn't make it "white" but what proof do we have that white really is what we call it, other than our beleif in what we have been taught all of our lives?
Why SHOULD others believe what you do because your beliefs are the "only truth?"
What if your beliefs ARE truly the only truth and white really is white after all?
2006-12-22 14:58:17 · answer #2 · answered by Cindarella R 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe reality is made up of everyone's version of reality and also the "actual" reality that that is based on. Because people only have there senses to base there existence on everyone only has a small window onto the big picture. So when someone thinks of "reality" that is made up of everything they think is true based on what they've perceived, experienced, understood and remember however flawed each one of those faculties are. Because people never have an identical version of that, because people have individual lives, it's like everyone lives in there own reality. That being said people can still believe things that, are in fact, false, or in fact, true. When people learn to be more objective and learn more actually true things they're reality comes closer to the true, yet not fully knowable, reality So as the people of the world get more objective and concerned with truth there existence's will converge, though also the opposite is also true and with more subjectivity, falseness' lies and whatnot they diverge. And as people's existences diverge agreeing on anything, especially importent things, becomes more and more difficult. And, also, people can look at the same exact thing and see it diffrent due to trying to make what they percieve fit and make sense into there subjective realities. Learning to see and understand things as they really are even though it's only like peeking through a keyhole at "truth" or "reality" is what objectivity is supposed to be about.
2006-12-22 15:11:55 · answer #3 · answered by Stan S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are actually two realities but in a sense, essentially, they melt into one somewhere.
Allow me to explain.
Events that happen are the reality.
There is also a separate reality of which each individual has.
The reality which occurred happened and is real and reality that each individual allows it to be.
This is very complicated, simplistically.
No, reality is not always what I believe it be.
My reality is not the only one.
I have proof.
I have had an experience where I said something and then a person who heard what I said had their own reality of what I said.
This is often referred to as a misunderstanding.
It could also be called separate realities.
Anyhow, the short version is that no, reality is not always what one believes it to be and there is more than one reality.
I believe that if more people thought about this, it could help people to get along, realizing that not everyone thinks and has the same reality. We need to get on the same page and love one another.
Thank you.
Peace.
2006-12-22 15:34:41 · answer #4 · answered by elibw 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I totally disagree. Reality is that which exists outside of my belief. Facts need not be based on anyone's belief. It is a fact, that if you jump from the Empire State Building, the probability of your death is so high as to be called, statistically, a sure thing. I have no proof of this, but I am willing to live with it's presupposition as reality.
2006-12-22 17:05:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do believe that my reality is what I believe it to be, but this is only the subjective nature of my reality. This does not mean my reality is the only one. It does, however, mean that my reality is the only one for me. We see this as detrimental but if my reality does not have a negative effect on someone elses reality there is nothing bad about this whole scenerio. In fact it is rather healthy when we have the courage to choose a life instead of seeking the life. It is when we see reality as being rich and living a frivilous life as the epitome of human existence that our universal reality becomes detrimental because tbe majority of us feel bad about our reality becuase we are not rich and famous.
2006-12-22 14:35:15 · answer #6 · answered by JazzyJB 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That sounds more like rhetoric than a question, but no. Reality is reality, despite what I or anyone else thinks, feels or believes. I can disbelieve in it all I want but it won't go away. The rain falls, the sun shines, the taxes bite and death stalks us at every corner. These are facts or "reality".
If I don't want to buy it, all I can do is stick my philosophical head in the sand and eat grit.
2006-12-22 14:23:03 · answer #7 · answered by Jennifer N 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Reality is an illusion put on by the Hallmark Card Company and Coca-Cola used to force you to buy useless papers and liquids. Reality is not something you can trust, which is why I choose to do as many drugs as possible. Perhaps reality inofitself is the most unreal thing you can imagine.
2006-12-22 14:42:53 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
there is only one reality but everyone perceives that reality differently. i feel we do only see what we want to. in life everyone is looking for something so that is how you are perceiving reality.
2006-12-22 14:33:34 · answer #9 · answered by keokeid 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because my reality is the best!!!!!
2006-12-22 14:23:49 · answer #10 · answered by Adriel M 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋