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@zedvictor4
Why do you believe that? Do you believe you create your own reality?
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@janesix
How we assimilate information is ultimately an individual experience.
Therefore our perception of reality is also an individual experience.
Of course it could be argued that our perception of reality is a momentary thing and somewhat separate from the greater reality of the universe.
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@zedvictor4
That sounds reasonable.
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@janesix
Good.
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@zedvictor4
Yes theists are mentally ill. Good answer.
Wow, Poly is actually starting to make sense.
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@Polytheist-Witch
Data is processed according to the data that we have to process.
Formatively programmed information tends to have a strong influence on our decision making.
Theist and atheist are just different labels that we apply to what is essentially, exactly the same thing. A sentient mass that possesses the ability to consciously store, process and utilise information.
The output of information is relative to input and as input is variable so consequently the output of concepts will also be variable.
You conceive that theism is relative to mental illness.
Whereas I conceive that the your comment was inconsiderate.
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@zedvictor4
So you like to say theists are mentally ill in a nicer way. Got it.
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@janesix
I think that certain environment/phenomena/circumstance can appeal to aspects of a humans psyche, pull at certain strings and aspirations within them.
Foreknown knowledge of a place, such as where a great battle once occurred, though overgrown now by fen. One's imagination and sentiment wells within themself.
When coming to great works such as the Pyramids, Easter Island, or Stonehenge, again the mind or the heart can be effected.
Coming to view the majesty or terror of nature can evoke such, I'd argue, the mountains view, a terrible storm.
Personally I'm rather fond of a butte in my home city, which overlooks part of a state park, the beach, and an island.
Perhaps it was the exercise working my blood and breath on my way to the top, or the view which evoked similar emotions in me as the stars.
But it's a place that'd often leave me in a subdued state of awe and thought.
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