2007-03-17 17:49:49 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Fantasy requires belief in the complete absence of evidence. This covers everything from the existence of Harry Potter to zero-calorie cheesecake. It's different from the imagination, which scouts for new ideas that may be possible.
Belief in reality is somewhat based on our senses (which are not always accurate) but also on ideas that have been tested by hypothesis and supported by evidence (gravity, age of the universe, etc).
2007-03-17 17:54:25 · answer #1 · answered by Dalarus 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your question is a very good one.
But I argue that it is actually two questions.
"Reality" and any "fantasy", thinking about any imagined space-time, refer to two separate universes.
Belief in Reality refers to accepting space-time as real--so therefore you admit you must then take responsibility for studying it, checking your definitions, methods and ideas about it back against the provably real universe--seeing if they work--and being honest about what you really know of the inner normative, prioritized workings of things
and about what you as yet don't know. The name for believing in reality is Objectivism (being realistic).
Belief in anything else than observable space-time comes in two forms--pretending something else exists and believing it without proof: 1. the first of these in fantasizing or Postmodernism (being unrealistic), falsifying reality; or 2. Mysticism (preferring otherworldism)--accepting without proof the existence of a much better or much worse other universe on the word of a religio dispenser or mystical knowledge annunciator.
2007-03-18 01:03:50 · answer #2 · answered by Robert David M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People who admit to believing in fantasy realize that they are believing in fantasy, whereas people who claim to believe in reality fail to realize that they are believing in fantasy.
2007-03-18 01:29:48 · answer #3 · answered by Fred 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Reality is shared, fantasy is not. You can believe in both, and most of us do to varying degrees. Another person can share your reality, but only you experience your fantasies.
2007-03-18 00:52:56 · answer #4 · answered by Wonderin' 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Christianity (reality)
evolution (fantasy)
That's the difference
2007-03-18 00:54:53 · answer #5 · answered by Heaven's Messenger 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
believing in reality, means you believe in what's there, and believing in fantasy means you have an imagination.
2007-03-18 00:52:51 · answer #6 · answered by FWAY 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One man's reality is another man's fantasy. It is all in the eye of the beholder.
2007-03-18 00:53:05 · answer #7 · answered by mom tree 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Reality is a matter of perception. For example, how do you know that you exist? Perhaps you are merely a figment of someones imagination even though you believe you exist. Perception, perception, perception.
2007-03-18 00:54:09 · answer #8 · answered by Poohcat1 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There is no difference, except that you believe with all your heart, mind and soul, that what you believe is real.
2007-03-18 00:56:38 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
About $150.00 per hour depending on which psychiatrist you go to. This or a trip to the looney farm.
2007-03-18 01:06:23 · answer #10 · answered by 4everamusedw/humanity 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋