To: betty boop
There are levels of context, as extended Mandelbrot level theory says. The higher level, the more real level, is the legal world. Your lot is neatly trimmed and your house is freshly painted, but your eyes lie if they say that is just as real as the deed.
What is 'real'? It is something we do, isn't it?
2,091 posted on
02/10/2005 2:09:07 PM PST by
RightWhale
(Please correct if cosmic balance requires.)
What about the big prehistoric birds?
You know, the ones that were too big to fly, yet they did.
2,092 posted on
02/10/2005 2:12:09 PM PST by
RobRoy
(They're trying to find themselves an audience. Their deductions need applause - Peter Gabriel)
To: RightWhale; betty boop
What is 'real'? It is something we do, isn't it? By redefining reality, one can alter "truth" (at least in one's own mind.
If reality is something we do, does it disappear when we do?
To: RightWhale; Alamo-Girl; marron; Phaedrus; logos; cornelis; ckilmer; StJacques; PatrickHenry; ...
What is 'real'? It is something we do, isn't it? "We" do lots of things, RightWhale. And despite the fact that all of them are "real," not all of them are "good," and we "observe" this by recognizing that some things are injurious to others, and quite possibly to ourselves. You seem to want the universe to be totally "amoral" in its behavior. But is this any kind of a well-founded basis for human freedom?
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