Reality is Never an Illusion
A person argued on google said, “One person’s reality is another person’s illusion.”
I said that’s nonsense.
Proof –
You should really have proof for whatever you say, unless of course you’re writing fiction. Even in a fiction story, the reader will only swallow one “unbelievable” or “incredible” idea. (This isn’t my idea, but I had read it somewhere, and the credit is due to whoever said it or teaches it. Probably it is something taught in writing school, too.)
In Harry Potter stories it is that magic is real. If you added other incredible things the viewer or reader must also believe, the story’s plot and twists becomes burdensome or disappointing. The setting and characters, though not real, are part of the story, and prove the main idea, so are not a problem; we know such things don’t exist, but in the story they do, so they enhance the idea about magic being real (in the stories at least).
Superman’s only weakness is “kryptonite” (okay, and maybe Lois Lane, but that’s not an incredible leap of the imagination, or something which takes away from the storyline)
Can you think of other examples?
People can fly, with pixie dust, in Peter Pan. Or, a man shrinks his kids with an invention, in “Honey I shrunk the kids”.
You get the idea.
Even in real life, how many lies can someone swallow, before they have to admit that something is not right? For example, couples fight all the time, especially if one of them is being unfaithful. Exposing infidelity is likely the “straw that [breaks] the camel’s back”, in many relationships.
Defrauding the company, or insider trading, will get one fired, at work, or arrested in the real world; also in movies.
I was really happy when the guy (The Informant) played by one of those famous actors (think he was one of the earlier “brat pack” of the 80s) who was insider trading and claimed to have bi-polar syndrome was imprisoned. The judge didn’t believe that having bi-polar syndrome would cause someone to defraud his company, steal and cheat, or work as an informant for the FBI, lying to them as well as his company (and his wife) also ruining the good reputation of an FBI agent.
Reality is reality, illusion is illusion. There is no in between, either.
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‘The man of her dreams’
A woman might search for the man of her dreams but she doesn’t know if he really exists.
I watched movie, years ago about a man who finds his true love, only to learn that she is a ghost, and in another one, a woman finds her true love, only to learn that she is dead, or something like that.
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In the novel by Frederick Forsythe, “The Day Of The Jackal”, he wrote on pp. 25-26, “It occurred to [Rodin] as he trudged back to the humble rooming house that some might think he too was chickening out, disappearing from the threat of kidnap or assassination by the Action Service. He shrugged to himself. Let them think what they wished, the time for lengthy explanations was over.
He lunched off the boarding house Stammkarte, the meal of the day…By mid-afternoon he was gone, bags packed, bill paid, departed on a lonely mission to find a man, or more precisely a type of man, whom he did not know existed.”
Rodin wants an assassin, but for his plan to work, the man can’t be just anyone. His mission is so important to him he doesn’t include anyone else or even care what others think. But he believes he will be successful. Whether or not he will find a perfect assassin or ‘the perfect man for the job” is not at all certain, except we know that man is already boarding a plane, on p. 26, in the following paragraph. In books, if you have patience, everything will be revealed. Sometimes, in life that is also possible. At least, many people believe they know everything, or the most important things.
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When Allah wanted a prophet, He chose from the best type in the era or place He knew that person would be victorious, or who He wanted to single out for this specific favor and honor. Not all the prophets’ missions were highly successful, but they were good men, the right man, and it was only the lack of good people they sought, calling to the true religion, who were hard to find. Some prophets had many followers, Musa, A.S. did, others had few, or even none. Muhammad, pbuh, said he would have the most followers on the Day of Judgment. It appears that prophecy is coming to bear fruit, and God knows best.
I realize it is annoying to many people that religious folks think they know it all. Well, they don’t know everything do they? No. But maybe many of them have a pretty good idea of what reality is? Since this isn’t something any one can prove with an easy litmus test, that’s why belief in God is called “faith”. But it takes real study to be firm in one’s belief or convinced of one religion’s truth over the others.
Many Jehovah’s Witnesses are leaving because they have learned unsettling things about their religions’ teachings or other things. There are channels on YouTube devoted to the Jehovah’s Witnesses or exposing wrongs in the Witnesses’ teachings or community.
Debating God:
In the video debate between Christopher Hitchens, the late, and William Lain Craig, Hitchens doesn’t want to say he’s an atheist, because he knows the burden of proof will be on him, to prove that God doesn’t exist, just as the burden of proof is on William Lain Craig to give “sufficient” evidence that God does exist.
In the subbing for the video I watched, which is on YouTube, and I added to a few of my playlists, like “Debunk This”, Hitchens says that Lain Craig’s proofs must be “magnificent”, but that isn’t true.
By a simple equation we know why, “Atheism = true”, “Theism = false”, and “Theism = true”, “Atheism = false”. Both have to prove their point sufficiently, in order to win.
Hitchens hems and haws, before he finally agrees to the statement “I am an atheist” because if he says he is only an “agnostic” he cannot argue strongly, if at all, for the side “God doesn’t exist”. He must argue against God, so he must say without hesitation (which proves harder for him than one might have thought, considering this is “The Hitch”. Anyway, he can’t do it with any great success and WLC appears to win the debate.
Many atheists thumb down the video, about one third of that thumb up the video, but as one comment points out, “thumbs down don’t prove that God doesn’t exist”, any more than Hitchens did.
Atheists and also agnostics, argue against God with logical fallacies, like “I can’t see or touch God” so He doesn’t exist, or “since cultures all over the world believe in God and their stories don’t make sense, or their beliefs don’t make sense, so God isn’t real”.
If I die tomorrow, and in one hundred years there is no record of my having been born or died, and no one remembers me or even heard of me, and no internet search even will show that I was ever here, does that mean I never existed? No.
The video gives a much better explanation of what happens in the debate, and I highly recommend others to watch it who are interested in “the God debate”.
Peace
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