Apr 14 2010, 07:46 PM
QUOTE(Keith321 @ Apr 14 2010, 11:56 AM)
The lives of an average human will consist of both reality and illusion. What we perceive as reality could be illusion or wad we perceive illusion could be reality.
Some people would want live with illusion (which is their reality) if it makes them happier and more productive, and shuns the harmful reality. They are very different from realists. Some chose to believe in the existence of god since the whole salvation thingy would make them happier, and why not? Its not like anyone is coming along with hard evidence showing tat omnipotent being does not exist.
Realists demand reality in their lives, although they still live and believed into some illusions. But reality does not really begets happiness tat often. But being realistic is not being skeptical, its 2 different traits. Some of them even demand 100% facts in their lives, which they will never get of course.
As people always say "ignorance is a bliss". And people with lots of this "bliss" live happier and longer. Why demand the facts if it makes you miserable? If you could live with the illusion and be happy throughout your life?
That's the way of non - realists.
Actually there is a big problem to the idea of "let them be as long as they are happy". Normally people live their lives the way they like but in a close society we have today, that is a problem. It also depends on how far from reality one willing to tolerate, say your neighbor practicing voodoo and black magic because she believes it is real. But that makes her happy and you unhappy. So one day you decide to pull her over and explain that while she can believe anything she likes, you would like her to keep her daily ritual quiet and less visible. Extend that problem to an active black magic practitioners community that goes around on special day shouting and sprinkling magic dust. Would you then think let them be? What happen if your neighbor is elected to be the prime minister? Wouldn't that be scary?Some people would want live with illusion (which is their reality) if it makes them happier and more productive, and shuns the harmful reality. They are very different from realists. Some chose to believe in the existence of god since the whole salvation thingy would make them happier, and why not? Its not like anyone is coming along with hard evidence showing tat omnipotent being does not exist.
Realists demand reality in their lives, although they still live and believed into some illusions. But reality does not really begets happiness tat often. But being realistic is not being skeptical, its 2 different traits. Some of them even demand 100% facts in their lives, which they will never get of course.
As people always say "ignorance is a bliss". And people with lots of this "bliss" live happier and longer. Why demand the facts if it makes you miserable? If you could live with the illusion and be happy throughout your life?
That's the way of non - realists.
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