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Old 04-02-2008, 07:39 PM   #177 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Nick Treklis View Post
Because to experience emotion you need to be attached to something. So when one understands the true nature of reality one begins to realize there is inherently nothing there to get attached to.
I think I understand there is nothing inherently (independently) to get attached to, but what about dependently being attached ... you and I are one, so to speak?
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Well first of all there is no such thing as a "true belief" since a belief is not something that has been proved to be true. So instead of answering your question, let me ask you one instead because I feel like you've over looked the Absolute Truths I've already stated in this discussion. What is there about reality that remains a mystery to you, or if there is no mystery then tell me what you believe or know to be true about reality?
OK false beliefs exist and true ones don't, Therefore all beliefs are false?
Not quite sure what you mean by reality? But I would say there is not much that is a mystery, but there is much that I don't know.
At the basest level:
what I or my senses perceive, I take as reality. I know that things are not always as I perceive.

A part of me believes there are no absolute truths .... other than the universe.

Not sure I'm making sense.
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