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Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 2:00 pm
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What I mean by this is what is really real, the Ultimate Truth, Eternal Truth, things as they really are, really were, and really will be. The nature and purpose of existence, etc.
How do you rate your view and why:
1) I don't know and don't care.
2) I know, but am not applying that knowledge (purposefully living in "sin" or "fantasy" or "false reality", even though deep down you think you know the Truth).
3) I know, but have an element of doubt. I have an open mind but there are things I do know for sure (I have a "testimony" of these things).
4) I know for certain, and everyone who doesn't eventually accept and apply the Truth as I know it, will be damned (go to hell, progress will stop, not reach their full potential, not reach the highest level of heaven, etc.)
5) I know that basic obsevable facts are true, but I don't claim to know anything that cannot be objectively verified. I am agnostic to the idea of Ultimate Truth, God, etc. not because I don't think it is possible to know these things, but only because I have yet to see convinving evidence.
6) I know for certain that things that are not obsevable simply do not exist. If it can't be measured, tested, observed objectively, then it is not real. Subjective experience is meaningless unless verified objectively.
7) I have no idea what reality is, but I am doing eveything possible to figure it out. I challenge all concepts of reality.
8) A combination of certain aspects of those mentioned above or something not mentioned (please elaborate).
Personally I fall somewhere between 3, 5 and 7. The deeper I think about it, the closer and more firmly I move toward 7 (I guesss technically, that makes me an 8).
How in the world could you be a 7? How do you challenge all concepts of reality? Maybe I just do NOT have the imagination you ex religious do (or are you still current??). I don't get it.
Anyway, I'm a 5.