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phineas

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Posted: Feb 3, 2010 - 11:47am
 Jimi_the_Saint wrote:


I have spent some time around pigs and I, for one, do not want to live in a world where pigs can fly.  You could never go out without a raincoat and a helmet and we would all have to do a lot more yard  and roof maintenance.  So, if what you're telling me is that alien pigs can fly - then we need to develop some kind of giant, anti-pig ray gun to protect Earth.  This is getting out of hand.  Reality sucks.

 
Spare us your unadulterated bullsh!t. Reality, clearly, bites...
Jimi_the_Saint

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Posted: Feb 3, 2010 - 11:09am
 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote:

True, but you're still within the box.

(to elucidate, I think our box currently extends back to the big bang and contains everything within our event horizon since then... our powers of deduction might expand the size of the box a little i guess in a kind of "brick/foot/pain => brick is real" kind of way. It is important to remember that reality is a concept, admittedly a concept we use to refer to things that are independent of our powers of perception but nevetheless it is still a concept and as such it changes over time. For instance flying pigs are conceivable but not real. Were we however to discover a planet with flying pigs, then they would move into our concept of what is real. Things that are conceivable but not yet substantiated are not commonly considered real even though they might well be).

 

I have spent some time around pigs and I, for one, do not want to live in a world where pigs can fly.  You could never go out without a raincoat and a helmet and we would all have to do a lot more yard  and roof maintenance.  So, if what you're telling me is that alien pigs can fly - then we need to develop some kind of giant, anti-pig ray gun to protect Earth.  This is getting out of hand.  Reality sucks.
hippiechick

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Location: topsy turvy land
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Posted: Feb 3, 2010 - 11:05am
Reality is the moment in which you exist right now. Your past and the future are just stories you make up about those moments.
MayBaby

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Posted: Feb 3, 2010 - 10:59am
 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote:

True, but you're still within the box.

(to elucidate, I think our box currently extends back to the big bang and contains everything within our event horizon since then... our powers of deduction might expand the size of the box a little i guess in a kind of "brick/foot/pain => brick is real" kind of way. It is important to remember that reality is a concept, admittedly a concept we use to refer to things that are independent of our powers of perception but nevetheless it is still a concept and as such it changes over time. For instance flying pigs are conceivable but not real. Were we however to discover a planet with flying pigs, then they would move into our concept of what is real. Things that are conceivable but not yet substantiated are not commonly considered real even though they might well be).

 
If you believe in the infinity of time and space, then other dimensions exist and somewhere, in some dimension not only CAN anything happen, it HAS to happen. yea?
sirdroseph

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Posted: Feb 3, 2010 - 10:53am
 Lazy8 wrote:

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
Philip K. Dick
 

I like that one.{#Meditate}
fidget

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Posted: Feb 3, 2010 - 8:29am
 callum wrote:
Maths is the only thing that can reliably be called real.
 
{#Shifty}

“To the extent math refers to reality, we are not certain; to the extent we are certain, math does not refer to reality.”

 Albert Einstein
Lazy8

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Posted: Feb 3, 2010 - 8:08am
 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote:
True, but you're still within the box.

(to elucidate, I think our box currently extends back to the big bang and contains everything within our event horizon since then... our powers of deduction might expand the size of the box a little i guess in a kind of "brick/foot/pain => brick is real" kind of way. It is important to remember that reality is a concept, admittedly a concept we use to refer to things that are independent of our powers of perception but nevetheless it is still a concept and as such it changes over time. For instance flying pigs are conceivable but not real. Were we however to discover a planet with flying pigs, then they would move into our concept of what is real. Things that are conceivable but not yet substantiated are not commonly considered real even though they might well be).
 
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
Philip K. Dick
Lazy8

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Posted: Feb 3, 2010 - 8:05am
 callum wrote:
Maths is the only thing that can reliably be called real.

Oh no, it can be quite complex.
rosedraws

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Posted: Feb 3, 2010 - 7:58am
 hippiechick wrote:

Yeah, thinking about taking a few more! {#Lol}

 
  hang in there you.
hippiechick

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Posted: Feb 3, 2010 - 7:57am
 rosedraws wrote:

Re-thinking the drugs then?
 
Yeah, thinking about taking a few more! {#Lol}
rosedraws

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Posted: Feb 3, 2010 - 7:53am
 hippiechick wrote:
Reality is my checking account this morning {#Eek}

 
Re-thinking the drugs then?
hippiechick

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Posted: Feb 3, 2010 - 7:52am
Reality is my checking account this morning {#Eek}
hippiechick

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Posted: Feb 3, 2010 - 7:51am
Reality is for people who can't take drugs
NoEnzLefttoSplit

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Posted: Feb 3, 2010 - 6:11am
 fidget wrote:
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination

John Lennon 

 

nice one.
fidget

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Location: The dreaming spires
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Posted: Feb 3, 2010 - 6:05am
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination

John Lennon 
Proclivities

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Posted: Feb 3, 2010 - 5:47am
Dollhouse

Perhaps it can be defined by what it is not.
(or so this guy said)
bokey

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Posted: Feb 3, 2010 - 5:12am
Reality can be  painful
sirdroseph

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Location: Not here, I tell you wat
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Posted: Feb 3, 2010 - 5:08am
Reality is what comes in your mailbox
NoEnzLefttoSplit

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Posted: Feb 3, 2010 - 12:50am
Reality is a concept on which I am still working.
NoEnzLefttoSplit

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Posted: Feb 3, 2010 - 12:37am
Personal reality is the trajectory we trace on the swings and roundabouts of life. For some people its very flat.
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