Perception, Perspective, and Presumption…

[pith_postulant]

It never ceases to amaze me how much perception can channel reality into an altogether opposite frame of existence. Take a base situation and imprint your feelings upon it without sharing any aspect of it with others. Anything will do - watering plants, dusting, lying prostrate on the couch and vegetating to your favorite television show - anything

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Re: Deadened by the stomp of others putting their opinions on the landscape of my life.

[pith_postulant]

Perception alone is not reality. Reality is a combination of the world and how we perceive it. A tree does in fact make a sound if it falls when no one is around to hear it. Our couch would still exist even if everyone who had ever had an interaction with it all of a sudden ceased to exist. That’s why we can stumble upon buried treasure hidden by pirates long dead. ;)

Pure causal intent does exist and is illustrated by you writing this reply. You willed your response into being utilizing the tools you have available to you. No one told you what to write. It is your own, and has now become part of our communal real. Before you had posted it for public consumption the reply only existed in your personal real. By adding the post you simultaneously affected change in both the communal real which we are all experiencing as well as the personal real of each person who read it.

This has effectually diluted the pure causal intent present in the personal real of each of the reader’s just as my post diluted yours. As a stellar example:

If I hadn’t posted, you wouldn’t have chosen to respond to that post. Because I affected change in your personal real, you suddenly had cause to do something that you wouldn’t have done otherwise which is a direct example of me diluting the purity of your base causal intent. Had you not responded so beautifully, Kimberly would have not posted her response to your response. Thusly you, by responding to my post, have diluted the pure causal intent of both she and I (and everyone else who read it).

This is a beautiful illustration of the interplay between personal reality and communal reality.

Love you baby,

-M

Re: Deadened by the stomp of others putting their opinions on the landscape of my life.

[m2_i]

Excellent attemp to persuede me, my love, however I just have one question - what made you post this postulation in LJ - did you invent LJ? Did you hear about it from someone already posting?

Can you give me even one completely personal reality? One that wasn't spawned if by idea alone by something that you saw or heard or know from reading or etc.?

(I guess that would be four questions for you "technical" people.)

Re: Deadened by the stomp of others putting their opinions on the landscape of my life.

[pith_postulant]

The coat hanger.

;)

-M

Re: Deadened by the stomp of others putting their opinions on the landscape of my life.

[m2_i]

touche