can anyone define the absolute reality of the life and universe?
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no i don't think any one can. good question though
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It is difficult to scientifically explain the meaning of life. All that can be  said and perceived is that Humans have it!\n\nOne thing that is certain, and understood that life without a relationship to the Creator is meaningless.
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a. What is the Prime Reality and the primary source of truth? \nThe prime reality is spirit.
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There are two definitions of reality:\n\n1. Absolute reality.  This is seperate from perception in that it is the totality of everything.  Goofy ideas do no have an impact on it.  For example, suppose you decide to behave like a bird and believe that there is no such thing as glass so you constantly walk smack into sliding glass doors and foolishly wonder what happened.  Meanwhile, the glass in the door does not care if you believe in it or not.  It just is.  This is absolute reality.\n\n2. Subjective reality.  This is "reality" as we perceive it.  Post-modernists are usually referring to this sort of reality instead of absolute reality when they talk about things like culture constantly changing reality or something as silly as "personal reality."  To me, reality is about as impersonal as you can get, but that's because I normally operate using the first definition.  Anyhow, culture is a lense through which you see reality and interpret it.  Culture, despite whiny people that say it can't happen, changes constantly - particularly with changes in technology, so the perceptual lense changes.  Maybe the changes are miniscule and difficult to detect, but they occur.\n\nOk, let's take an example... I like dangerous ideas, so lets jump right in with abortion:\n\nIn absolute reality, there may be no moral imperative whatsoever.  There might not be a God or other deity.  There may only be the mechanical aspects of the universe.\n\nIn our subjective realities, most of us prefer not to think that we live in a cruel and heartless universe that would just well wipe us clean from existence as have us exist at all.  We turn to "God" and we generate all sorts of meanings for things.  In fact, this cuts at the meaning of life, but that's a huge digression!  So we go about making meaning of things that might otherwise be random.  Even someone embracing chaos makes meaning of their life and thus creates an order.  Culture is the sum of many people coming to some common conclusions about how they make meaning of the total reality.  This creates a cultural reality.  The shocking thing for most people that have never left their own culture is that they do not have a corner on creating a meaning for absolute reality.  For those that never leave, they are blind to this fact and think that their cultural reality is absolute reality.  (I love these people because these are the ones that get most disturbed by my more Cheshire Cat-like attributes, although I know that I did not actually suddenly appear or disappear, nor was my seemingly cruel advice meant to harm, but to chastize.)  I learned more and more about this from bouncing from culture to culture a bit and also making many friends from many countries.  There are other such "realities" out there and these competiing realities sometimes come into conflict.  This may or may not play a key role in what is happening in what we call the "Middle East" today.  Such realities collide constantly, however, in my own country, such that perceptions change constantly.\n\nHow else might culture change reality?  Let's skip the fluffy stuff and go straight for absolute reality.  Culture is, despite there being many cultures and incompatible belief systems, a part of the absolute reality.  Given the vastness of space, it's a puny part, but still a part.  Making any change, such as building a church, constitutes a change in the absolute reality.  It is inconsequential to the laws that govern absolute reality, but a tiny, inconsequential change happens.  This is difficult to express because as individuals we are so wrapped up in our own "personal realities" that many of us could not get it if we wanted to...  Metaphor is handy, but some people also have difficulties with that... Anyhow, suppose absolute reality is a train carrying several loads of steel and one subjective reality happens to be a gnat that believes that it is always
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what's the real meaning of life?
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The cosmos is everything that is, ever was and ever will be. I don't believe in God. The wonder of the universe is just astonishing but I don't need a god to understand it or be awe struck by it. I can do that on my own. I believe in the spirituality of nature and science and as far as I'm concerned there is nothing more absolute than the cosmos. Jules, Lecturer. Australia.
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Remember the chicken discussion in The Maxtrix.  I liked that explanation.\n\nWhat is reality? It is something we feel, smell, taste, see, or hear?  But then again, all these sensations are electrical impulses that is relayed to our brain and our brain interpret those impulses.  If that is true then something that is real is really our interpretation of impulses.  \n\nLet me ask, if a person with schizophrenia is hallucinating about a flower pot in front of him and everyone else around him doesn't see it.  Does that mean its not real.  It may not be real to everyone else but it is very really to that schizophrenic person.  \n\nWhich brings me to my next point.  I think reality is based on consensual and shared interpretations.  If 100 people can agree that a red table is a red table then its a red table.  well then again if you were color blind you wouldn't see red :).  Now lets say another alien species which could see infrared saw that table.  Our interpretation and the alien's interpretation of color would be very different.  Lets take another example: a photograph.  To most people a photograph can be easily identified.  However, to a tribe in Borereo the photograph may represent a captured soul.  In this instance culture definitely affects our interpretation of reality.\n\nSo to define what a real object is not very easy or even possible to do.\n\nI also thought it was funny to describe the fourth dimension as time in defining an object.  I mean what exactly does that mean.  My table or photograph ain't got a clock on it last time i checked
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What does it mean to be "true"? The quantum theory (I suppose that's what you're asking about) can explain a lot of physical experiments, so, up to a certain extent, it has been proven true. It is also the truest physical theory for small scales up to today.\nScience isn't about finding absolute truths, it's about providing a description of reality that suits your needs. Take newton's gravity laws for example: while proven false in absolute by einstein's relativity, they are still really useful and tought in many places.\nOf course the goal is to one day provide a theory (a description of reality, not "a guess") that explains everything, but for now that's still a dream.
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All you can say is that that's as real as real gets.  And we can never know if we are enslaved in magic electro brain slave helmets or not.  Maybe this is all a dream?  Maybe there is a teapot orbiting mars.  Has anyone ever looked close enough?\n\nThe point is you can never be 100% sure of anything.  The trick is to find out how to get as close to 100% as possible.  There are some things that are useful to consider and others that are not.  Those that are undetectable and arbitrary and untestable may be interesting to consider for fun but have little use in the "realer" world.\n\nBertrand Russell and Daniel Dennett have a lot to say about philosophy that might interest you.  http://plato.stanford.edu/ is the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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Universe is a creation of God. And only thing that can create itself is God and all others are His creation. This is what a Hindu believes.
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It is all Maya or illusion.\n\nEven Albert Einstein said, "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."\n\nand\n\n"Time and space are modes in which we think and not conditions in which we live."\n\nTime and space are, of course, relative.\n\nWhen you die, you will transcend the limits of humanity.  Returning to your original godlike form, you will remember that time and space are only illusions.  You swore an oath to pretend that time and space exist when you decided to come here to play this temporary game of humanity.  \nWhen you return, you will be unable to determine the difference  between one millisecond and 87 billion years, since they are the same.  That is called "eternity".  It is natural, pleasant, peaceful and exciting.\nYou will travel instantly with a thought since distance and space are not.  \nTime, space and distance do not really exist, so you are already there.  You need not travel.  That is called "omnipresence" and it is one of your natural abilities and characteristics.  \n\nOmnipresence, omniscience and omnipotence are really not that difficult when you remove the veil of this grand illusion.  You had a personal hand in designing and creating the universe, space, and the concepts of infinity and the finite.  Life is but a dream.\n\nThe mysteries of the universe are only mysteries to a noisy an cluttered mind. Silence is the veil of God.\n\nAre you starting to remember?\n\n.
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That is the idea.\n\n" It cannot be described, and the most one can say is that It is absolute existence, absolute knowledge, and absolute bliss (sat-chi-ananda). \n\nIt is unborn, self-existent, all-pervading, and the essence of all things and beings in the universe. It is immeasurable, unapproachable, beyond conception, beyond birth, beyond reasoning, and beyond thought".\n\n God cannot be defined in terms of any specific manifestation, nor indeed in terms of their sum total. He is beyond all possibility of definition. \n\n"Though I manifest Myself in all things, I am identified with none of them".\n                                            -The Bhagavad Gita
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the life we are living can infact be heaven. we just need to mold it well and enjoy each and every day of our life with our loved ones- that is the true essence of heaven, the paradise of our lives.
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42.  That is the answer to life, the universe and everything.\n\n42.
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(other than the Bible)... Because when I look at the universe, I see a creation made by the ultimate supreme being.  I also have felt His presence, and have seen His miracles.  He is very real to me.
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Absolutes dictate the universe, for truth abounds everywhere... as relativism being a dark force and absolutism being the light, the two can not exist in one area at the same time and place. Jesus Christ taught absolutes, he was not a person living in the grayness of life, but as creator knew all. He was in absolute control of all absolutes, and even obeyed the laws he created and was subject to himself, for he could not lie, etc. He went as far to say that no man could approach God his Father and go to heaven unless they come through him. If ever an absolute existed, this does and must be personally addressed in each and everyone of our lives, for one day we shall all stand before God and give account. The laws that we teach and are taught to obey in our everyday lives are not limited to the physical, but also must be accepted in the spiritual, for we all are spiritual being in subjection to the absolutes of God. If we disagree with absolutes, we fall into relativism, don't fall my friend.
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nothing in the world is absolute.. no "all"  "never"  "always" // some do but some dont