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- From: rhr9081@hertz.njit.edu (Ray Rich)
- Newsgroups: alt.satanism
- Subject: Re: reality
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.050712.4868@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 05:07:12 GMT
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- In article <of0U4By00WBOQ=lFhK@andrew.cmu.edu> aw36+@andrew.cmu.edu (Andrew N. Westmeyer) writes:
- >Hey guys,
- > What's going down? If we could get off this sexuality topic for a
- >little bit. I see that all the arguments trace back to something even
- >more fundamental. I'd like to see some posts of people saying whether
- >they believe in subjective or objective reality, and why. For the
- >purpose of convention, how about these as definitions: Subjective
- >reality means that truth is defined by the individual; in other words,
- >something may be true for you, but not necessarily true for someone
- >else. Objective reality means that truth is predefined somehow, and it
- >is the same for everyone; in other words, if something is objectively
- >true, and you don't believe it, then your wrong. These are some pretty
- >short definitions, and admittedly there are some loopholes, but please,
- >let's not get so literal. I just want to hear some input as to which
- >people think is correct.
- > Andrew
-
- I have spoken to people who've fried their brains so bad on drugs,
- they don't even realize how damaged they are. Also, the truly insane rarely
- acknowledge their insanity. I suspect all of our judgements are clouded in
- this way to a somewhat lesser degree.
- Count me in for subjective reality, tho I believe there are some
- basic physiological perceptions we all share (recognition of a square,
- basic number theory, etc.) that are basically constant.
-
- Sorry if this is vague, but it's late.
-
- Raymond H. Rich
-