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Reality

“It’s easy to find fault but difficult to find solutions.”

                                                     John W. Malenda

Friends and loyal readers, I will be “off-line” for a couple of weeks but don’t despair, I will return!

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5 Responses to “Reality”

  1. peter eldridge on April 6th, 2008 at 9:09 pm

    In our current world – categorized by an author I am currently enjoying as insane, most of our problems come from the fact of our point of view. By this he means the programming which forms our perceptions – how we see our environment – is the source of all conflict. This programming comes from our parents (how did they learn to raise children; what was their ‘manual’?), from our social group, which obviously includes religion as well as schooling, and from all other influences we encounter growing up in any society – politics, news, and media of all sorts.

    Finding fault could be considered simply noticing another’s point of view doesn’t correspond with one’s own perception, and since one’s own perception is generally considered the ‘right’ point of view, the other person is ‘wrong’. If both parties persist in maintaining the ‘rightness’ of their perspective, then, yes a solution is difficult. When the opposing parties are two groups – two Irish factions, two Lebanese factions, Iraqui Sunnis and Shia, Catholics and Protestants, Russia and the US – the list is too long – who have decided there is no flexing on the point of view, the belief, the politics of ‘right’ versus ‘wrong’, the result is insanity. It is the escalation from the most basic of me/my/mine on the individual level to the most dangerous on the international level, with people killing each other over the ‘perception’ or point of view.

    Suppose we start on a one-by-one program to de-program this insanity? What could we do to get some form of acceptance of the other’s right to a perspective, as long as that was a mutually agreed upon rule of engagement? How do we listen to people we don’t agree with, and still work toward a common goal – a goal perhaps as radical as avoiding self-annihilation?

  2. My reality is one of a kind of reality. My reality is not the same as your reality and therein lies the problem of misperception between us.

  3. Stan,

    Very true.

    Realities are shaped by both experience of events of the past and perceptions of the present.

    I wrote a novel in 1992 that is now out of print. The title is DESTINATIONS and it deals with exactly this subject.

    Our reality extends only as far as we can sense. If one has always lived in a cave then that is all there is.

    Fascinating subject to speculate about.

    John

  4. John–
    Thanks for responding to my last posting on reality by email.

    In order to refresh our memories. I said what I said about reality in the my last posting here which is above this one.

    You e-mail wrote:
    Date: Nov 1, 2008 3:00 PM
    Stan,
     
      Very true.
       Realities are shaped by both experience of events of the past and perceptions of the present.
       I wrote a novel in 1992 that is now out of print. The title is DESTINATIONS and it deals with exactly this subject.
      Our reality extends only as far as we can sense. If one has always lived in a cave then that is all there is.
     
      Fascinating subject to speculate about.
     
    John

    My reply was:
    Date: Nov 1, 2008 3:11 PM
    John–
    We may need to compromise on this reality thing. I see I have understood 1/2 of the thing. Read my posted article in Blog4Brains called “The Name-Game, Is
    It Reality?” and here’s the URL as

    http://www.blog4brains.com/2007/11/08/the-name-game-is-it-reality/#more-1295

    I’m glad you’re back, John. I made a few other comments but miss your feedback to them. Are you back for a while?
    –Stan

    My missing half is what you pointed out, John. That half which is shaped by both experience of events of the past. And I would add interaction with other humans and animals and plants.

    In my b4b posted article, I gave a metaphysics explanation of reality. But now:
    Think of personal reality which is formed by experiences of the past; think of that as a bubble in which you are there at the center. The more experiences, the more overlapping, bouncing of other people’s bubbles and the bigger your bubble inflates. You and I exist in out own reality bubbles that are in the metaphysical reality. Hmmm. Needs more thought.

  5. John — I have had 9 books published (all fiction) under two of my three pen names. Does that help in anything any better? I think not.

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