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Originally Posted by verklingen
it depends on your definition of object really. i like farmergiles' answer. to me, the idea or concept behind an object is more real than the object. the object is just a representation of what is in my mind, and what it represents to me is particular to my mind. you might say it exists only in my mind, because others will see within the same object a different representation. so to me an object and it's components are, strangely enough, immaterial.
in the face of all this i can't logically consider anything to ever be the "same" object. even what objects represent to me changes and evolves along with myself.  |
Oh Verk, you put my Philosophy into such well spoken words. I am totally answering this one with the Ulitimate Reality, in Buddhist terms. Everything broken down is all made of essentially the same matter. I agree the words are more real than the objects as well. I love the suttras where Buddha says, Hey I'm only using these words so we can talk about things, because the words are impermenant ways of describing the impermenant comparison between perceived impermenant objects and ideas. Getting to core of what Perceived Reality really is.
I love reading your posts man. Thanks for 'being' you as I perceive you to 'be' right now Brother.
