Thread: What is reality? / Nothingness

I think everything and nothing are the same thing.

everything you see around you, everything you know...you're essentially walking around in absolute nothingness. but my beliefs are a little odd.

metaphysical nihilist maybe? I don't know.

Moved to Philosophy.

for Me: I am but a tiny residue of awareness ever expanding through the illusion of time.

I think words like "Real" and "Are" aren't very useful, in this context.

What is "real?" If someone says their dreams are "real", are they trying to imply that their dreams are substantially/physically "real?" Someone can say that "nothingness exists", but it's a play on words to try to associate that nothingness as being somehow tangible (as opposed to nothingness "not existing"). That which doesn't exist is still "nothingness", but people kind of confuse themselves by making these associations between the words, themselves, as if they are literal definitions of that thing's existence.

For instance: are dreams "real?" Yes. Do they exist? "Yes."

Is the dream content "real?" It depends. Does that "real" mean physically, or conceptually?"

Yes, nothingness "exists", but is it a physical, tangible thing? No. It is the absence of all physical, tangible things. Trying to define it in terms of "real/unreal", though, can be a little misleading, and depends entirely upon the person's interpretation of those words, at that given time.

What it is not, one can definitely say.
What precisely it is, one cannot adequately express in conventional terms as it is unique. It is for self-realization.

Philosophers always confuse themselves and get lost in conceptual word games. Philosophers know nothing of reality.
A Philosopher will ask: "What do you mean by reality? Do you mean the material Universe? Do you mean a transcendental state? Do you mean an absolute spiritual nothingness? Do you mean the physical world of Nature?"
But these are all philosophical concepts.....

But...




Reality is not a concept.

Reality is: .....



And we won't give it a name.

Originally Posted by nerve

I think everything and nothing are the same thing.

everything you see around you, everything you know...you're essentially walking around in absolute nothingness. but my beliefs are a little odd.

metaphysical nihilist maybe? I don't know.

your beliefs are a little odd & a little alike to mine

And who knows a thing about reality?

Originally Posted by opaque lens

What it is not, one can definitely say.
What precisely it is, one cannot adequately express in conventional terms as it is unique. It is for self-realization.

This is beautiful!