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Originally Posted by Voice  You do need to prove it if you are to disprove your hypothesis. The disproof requires the proof. |
I should have inserted sarcasm tags around the post you were responding to.
As far as the "world is an illusion" thing goes, okay, I agree that everyone's world is different. We all have different perceptions of the same events and different experiences. But saying that the entire world is an illusion that you can modify? That's just ridiculous. Why do you care so much about eating animals if you can just imagine up another one? They're not really there anyway.
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Originally Posted by Voice When you watch a movie, you laugh and cry, but you rarely truly suffer, because you know it is an illusion. You enjoy it as such, for what it is, as well as what it appears to be. |
I'm glad you can distinguish between a movie and reality. Sure, shit happens in a movie, someone gets kills, molested, cheated on, etc. Sometimes it makes me laugh, sometimes it makes me cry. Sometimes it keeps me up all night with crazy imagery flashing in my mind, but I know that these things are different from the real world. Can you truly say that the real world is just another movie? Do you honestly not really suffer when you see pain? If you get in a fight with your significant other, do you grab a bag of chips and wait for the "good part"?
You still didn't answer my question of how the universe can be an illusion while at the same time having some greater meaning that only those with super mind-expanding higher thought capacities can understand.