is it all perspective?

Question

is life an illusion.

not matrix aaron, vanilla sky and zen buddhism.

and it sux cause you say it sux. on some level.
i think.

Answer 1

99%, the other 1% can be found on the periodic table. Brilliant question!

Answer 2

Since I have seen so very, very many perspectives, it would seem that life is an illusion--yet let's consider that life "may" not be an illusion, it is people who are illusional.
A far out curiosity I'll some day research, is that while I call certain things "red" because I've learned to do so, yet my eyes see them as blue, where would the illusion be?
Because of my experience as a psychologist, I rather lean toward perspective, but I couldn't say empirically say if life itself is an illusion or not.

Edit: I agree with most of simplyunited's answer. Very comprehensive.

Answer 3

When crime statistics come out, for instance, they might reveal the shocking picture of an issue of crime rate burgeoning in a society, needing attention and effort by all people. It would then be said that there is an issue of crime in the society. But when the same thing is looked at in comparison with other societies, in a wider perspective of societies for instance, it could be said that that and that society has a problem that its is trying to deal with, and the issues related to that problem are internally known.

I have often seen perfectly well cultural values being defined as the opposite to being any good, or being classed as relatively less valuable when introduced within a foreign culture. All cultural norms, customs, and rites however wierd they might appear to foriegners make wonderful sense when viewed from within their native historical, ethnical and cultural settings, which acts like a perspective to them.

All things require perspective for their understanding in the world, and what would not require perspective would stand alone as an ideal and would need a counter-perspective for their being. It is known that goodness is inherent in the mind and yet we seek goodness outside in the world, only because our innate quality to realise goodness in present inside in it idealised form – the unseen entity that we use as a measure for all things we encounter and yet if I am not I cannot be either good or bad, I am the counter-perspective for the goodness that I am inherently aware of ... at this point I let you decide if life is an illusion ... as if it is then what greater reality is out there than the one we already have. If life is an illusion then it is the master illusion of the reality we know - to be is not just to know. It is as if God created us so that He was a perspective to our exitence, and yet He is known to us through the realisation of our own being.

Yes it is all perspective in nature, all that I see and all that I know, as perspectives make sense of most things in my life, enabling me to tell one thing from the other clearly, in a comprehensive and intelligent way, when things seemingly are closely related they could be very different from one another if looked only one way.

What am I in the perspective of my own individual life, and then what I could be in the perspective knowledge of the fact that I am also a human being like billions other like me, and that I am also a part of a magnificent universe, no less important, intelligent in design, significant and marvellous then a star or a galaxy. And yet I could have problems if I overlook the importance of a varied nature of the perspective in my observation, if I let my perspective to fly away into the outer wondrous space, the universe, leaving behind my earth capacity unattended. I would like to know better about everything and a shift of perspective enables me to do just that.

Answer 4

No. You've simply been watching too many Matrix movies and reading too many Philip K Dick novels. Life is always from your perspective, but this IS the tangible reality, and it sucks! The sooner you figure that out the better.

Ooh. I prefer Mahayana Buddhism and A Scanner Darkly, but to each his own....

Answer 5

Here is a possibility: Life is real, but what we perceive is an illusion. We have the power to change our perceptions, thankfully. When we do life itself becomes more and more real (meaningful). Personally, I am wary of peo. who dismiss another person's perceptions or feelings when they disagree with them or when they do not want to connect with what the other person is seeing or feeling. I think that even if "life is an illusion," kindness, compassion, empathy, patience, and respect are due.

Answer 6

For me, it is all about staying connected to, and helping, others. Nothing is quite so satisfying as knowing you have helped someone who is having a rough time of it. I am not talking about dependency. I am talking about reaching out and helping that person over the rough spot and then stepping back and letting him find his way again.

Answer 7

Plato thought that...the world is a veil, a light being shone in our eyes, blinding us from the truth. Descartes said the only three things we know to exist is ourself (I think therefore I am,) maths, and God. I think the key to philosophy is to break it down into these basic principals that you know to be true. Because you are right, our senses are flawed..which we use to test the world, therefore how can we know what in the physical world to trust.

Answer 8

reality is subjective and based on perception what you see and feel
so the concept of all society's and cultures are just a shared hallucination at best
when you remove yourself from this you are free to see the world as it is not how you want it to be

Answer 9

That is the way some people see it, and the illusion under which they operate.

Answer 10

Life on earth is a shared consciousness. Get on with living- It doesn't last long.