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I Have Random Thoughts

To be curious means to somehow ignore the tendency and sometimes urge to generalize. Generalizations may be practical and that may be why we have evolved to gravitate towards them but every time you make a case or statement more general you lose some of its fit to reality. Details make up the universe even though generalizations may guide us through it.
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This is absolutely true, which is why I really abhor generalisations, though I have been guilty of them time to time.
The other side of the coin of reality is however its existence. How real is reality and how much of it is just our perception? And to those who generalise, that is their reality. So maybe they've not really lost anything, just see it from a different angle.
Aido: you mean generally you shouldn't generalize? :P

And yes, I think my position on the realness of reality is that I believe there is something out there that is real and I know there is me that is real but my perception is a very narrow window into that reality and what I see in that window is mostly a reflection of what is in here with me.

So in that case the people that generalize too much tend to choose to see the reflection rather than the things that lurk out there in the dark.

But it doesn't really mean just because I am looking really hard as those dark and blurry shapes that I see them more clearly, if anything it just means I feel less sure about whether what I see is real or just part of that wily reflection. And that I spend an unhealthy amount of time thinking about that ;)
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Very well put...it's a form of laziness I suppose-not to want to question if stuff is true or not to want to experience things for ourselves-the day we stop that We might as well give up and die
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Haha Ondruid. Well, the truth is people who think they see clearly or know it all are probably the most removed from 'reality'. And you seeing your blurry shapes that makes you qn, albeit unhealthily, lol, is just a testament to your awareness you can't and wont know it all.
There may be a point that is real. But that point is altered by all of us seen by eyes/mind that reflect what is within us. No two people will see something exactly the same way.
Very well said :)
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