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The separation of mind and reality

chiknsld April 16, 2022 at 14:00 3400 views 12 comments
The mind is a gift so that we may see clearly the reality of nature. Though we have a body that is natural, it is erected from the dirt of the land to eclipse the temporary nature of life itself and to see past the horizon.

Our mind is a representation and a separation from reality. Such as a virus inserted into reality itself. We are distortions of the fickleness of nature. Our body is a great machine that which we owe to it the rite of passage. This is where great minds create the cardinal sin against the body.

As we ponder beyond the horizon of reality we are obligated to uncover the great mystery of existence as only a mind that is separated from reality is capable so.

Thus it is our great separation from reality that allows us to see the hidden beginning. Our bodies wish to be exalted with the separation and the universe compels us to do our duty. We are of the universe and the debt is large.

The grievances of the body must not be ignored, though our minds seek sophistication. This is the bargain that has been made.

Comments (12)

Haglund April 16, 2022 at 15:31 #682277
What you mean by our separation from reality? That we can observe it from a distance, with something between us and reality? Is it our body between the world and the inner world, which gives meaning?
180 Proof April 17, 2022 at 19:07 #682721
Quoting chiknsld
Our mind is a representation and a separation from reality.

Only unreality (i.e. fiction) is "separate from reality".
Banno April 17, 2022 at 23:39 #682792
Reply to 180 Proof I dunno. A read of this forum shows that plenty of minds are separated from reality.
180 Proof April 18, 2022 at 00:05 #682800
Reply to Banno :smirk:
Banno April 18, 2022 at 00:09 #682802
Reply to 180 Proof What's odd is that they seem to be so proud of this separation...

They wear it on their sleeve, scribe it on banners, spray it on the walls of the world; and put effort into increasing the separation rather than coming to terms with how things are.
L'éléphant April 18, 2022 at 02:12 #682825
Quoting Banno
A read of this forum shows that plenty of minds are separated from reality.

:sweat:
180 Proof April 18, 2022 at 05:18 #682854
Reply to Banno A "new" plague / birth defect: Dunning-Kruger Syndrome. :mask:
Ciceronianus April 18, 2022 at 15:45 #682995
Reply to chiknsld

If the mind is separate from reality, where is it? Describe what it is to be "separate from reality."
baker April 19, 2022 at 15:54 #683427
Quoting Ciceronianus
If the mind is separate from reality, where is it? Describe what it is to be "separate from reality."


"Separation from reality" is a party line some people toe now that threatening others with eternal damnation isn't all that fashionable anymore.
But the intention is the same: contempt.
Gus Lamarch April 21, 2022 at 17:53 #684260
Quoting chiknsld
The mind is a gift so that we may see clearly the reality of nature.


After seeing the true reality of nature, some would call "The Mind", simply "a curse"...



SpaceDweller April 22, 2022 at 13:14 #684683
Quoting chiknsld
Our mind is a representation and a separation from reality.


what about, our mind is a biological phenomena and as such it is reality? (ie. there is no separation)
chiknsld April 22, 2022 at 13:33 #684693
Quoting SpaceDweller
what about, our mind is a biological phenomena and as such it is reality? (ie. there is no separation)


That is certainly possible! :smile: