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Is Reality Absolute or Relative? |
What is Reality? Is there an absolute reality or do we all have our own personal realities? Different religions all claim to be real but believe in opposite things. Is there a real reality out there that is independent of our own experience? Is there a way to determine objectively which reality is the true reality? And from what viewpoint do we assess reality from? These are some of the great questions facing all people of all religions, and one thing about us Realists is that we love the great questions.
We Realist believe there is an absolute reality which is the way things really are. Our religious doctrine, the Kernel, says that one of our Sacred Missions is the pursuit and understanding of this absolute reality. Since reality itself is presumed to be infinite we are committed to make our best attempt at understanding it. We also realize that we are limited in our pursuit of reality because we are not infinitely knowledgeable and we are exploring reality through the lens of humanity. We have only our human brains and the computers we build as tools to explore reality with. That's not much to work with, but that is what we have so we'll just have to make due and take into account our limited perspective on absolute reality.
Reality itself is absolute, or at least we think it is, but our perception of reality will always be relative because of our limitations both collectively as the human race perceiving reality through the Tree of Knowledge, and individually perceiving reality individually. Our perception of reality will always be a subset of absolute reality, with a number of mistakes that we will inevitably make, and limited by the human perspective that will always out a human flavor on our understanding.
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