Anything is possible

[Mr. Ed]

There is a possibility that what you think you know is not as it seems. This means, life as it is known is a fabrication to prevent or avoid the truth.

 

[Lewkat]

There is the possibility that this life is merely an illusion and just what we care to make it.

 

[Alligatorob]

Also possible life, our lives, are just what we see and make of them.

 

[Mr. Ed]

With constant reinforcement of a concept true or false overtime that concept becomes real and is no longer challenged by rational thinking.

 

[Mr. Ed]

Of course the illusion is what it is chosen to be by the manufacturer,

 

[Farrah Nuff]

 

[horseless carriage]

There is a possibility that what you think you know is not as it seems. This means, life as it is known is a fabrication to prevent or avoid the truth.

What I think I know? For a fact I know that I have lived in relative freedom for almost seventy-seven years but it came at great sacrifice. My father spent a very unpleasant four years in a prisoner of war camp. His brother paid the ultimate price, as did half a million other Brits, military and civilians. I doubt that they fabricated that.

 

[chic]

There is a possibility that what you think you know is not as it seems. This means, life as it is known is a fabrication to prevent or avoid the truth.

There is also a possibility that, that statement is not likely.

 

[Murrmurr]

There is also a possibility that, that statement is not likely.

There's a strong likelihood that what you see is what it is.

 

[chic]

There's a strong likelihood that what you see is what it is.

Whatya see is whatya get? I understand the argument that life is a hologram, but can't shake the reality of the 3D. If we are talking about media controlled reality as the OP intimated, then I agree it's pretty much illusory. I wonder if the world will ever get past this division of what is real and what isn't now that the cat is out of the bag?

 

[Capt Lightning]

From "Enlightenment" by Van Morrison..

Enlightenment says the world is nothing
Nothing but a dream
Everything's an illusion and nothing is real

 

[Mr. Ed]

To each their own but to deny the possibility of big brother manipulation and spin doctors reporting on tainted facts is not unlike 1984. We just haven’t caught on yet to make big brother and human nature accountable. dishonestity, corruption and greed are human traits that are voted into leadership roles to guide society and preserve values that got him/her elected. The main objectives are defending those values at any cost even at the risk of compromising personal values and morale decisions.
Does country and state override the boundaries of morality and the right thing to do? A solder does what he/she is told to do otherwise national and local defense would be useless. Therefore I assume a chain of command is necessary to conduct business and maintain order?

What might have happend in Orewell’s movie 1984 if the two lovers were not reconditioned to serve the program? If left unattended the virus of compassion, love and feelings would have infected the entire work colony and product production would suffer. For the worker’s they might fall in love and have feelings that may contradict their purpose as workers.

To elimated the possibility of discontentment through feelings, the lovers are reconditioned to their former state of being for the better good of society. Meanwhile management knows how to feel love and emotions at the cost of a misguided society.

What do I know about illusions? Maybe I am an illusion of my making where nothing is as it seems? If so, how do I know?

 

[Mr. Ed]

There's a strong likelihood that what you see is what it is.

Perhaps what I see reflects or conditions the way I respond to things? What I see may not be what is, but what I choose it to be?

 

[Pepper]

From "Enlightenment" by Van Morrison..

Enlightenment says the world is nothing
Nothing but a dream
Everything's an illusion and nothing is real

From "Strawberry Fields" by the Beatles

Let me take you down cos I'm going to Strawberry Fields
Nothing is Real
And Nothing to get hung about.....

 

[Mr. Ed]

 

[Murrmurr]

Perhaps what I see reflects or conditions the way I respond to things? What I see may not be what is, but what I choose it to be?

True, your perception and mine may differ.

 

[Murrmurr]

Whatya see is whatya get? I understand the argument that life is a hologram, but can't shake the reality of the 3D. If we are talking about media controlled reality as the OP intimated, then I agree it's pretty much illusory. I wonder if the world will ever get past this division of what is real and what isn't now that the cat is out of the bag?

I think we'd both recognize the bag and the cat as tangible things, that one is living and the other is inanimate and a handy sort of container. Personally, I don't think there's any trickery involved. It's not just the light that fools us into believing there are oceans and land and everything else.