Acting Like Godot:

and are moving toward creating something that is important to you...for example when Picasso was creating his art...

I love Picasso. He illustrates how mind creates reality.

There is a story about how his friend says, "Hey Picasso, I hear you're an artist now. Paint a picture of me."

So Picasso paints a picture of his friend. And of course, since he is Picasso, he draws his friend to look something like this:

See picture above

So his friend says, "No, no. I asked you to draw a picture of ME."

Picasso replies, "Yes, that's what I did."

Friend: "But I don't look like that."

Picasso is very confused. "But you DO look like that. You look EXACTLY like that ... to me."

His perception creates his reality. Same goes for all of us. Our reality can never be other than what we perceive it to be.

And that is what .... Alex Platups .... cannot grasp. Alex sees reality one way, and that is the only way he can see it, and if people say that they see reality another way, Alex believes that they must be lying, or insane, or escaping reality, or believing in bullshit.

Actually if everyone in the world saw reality the way Alex Platups does, then everyone in the world would be Alex Platupses. There could not possibly be a Picasso ... or an Einstein ... or a Jesus ... or a Gandhi ... or an Obama .... or a Usain Bolt ... or a Kahlil Gibran ... or a Steven Spielberg .... or a Steve Pavlina ... or a Newton Forte.

There can only be .... Alex.

Newfort:

You make a very good point and much of it I can agree with as there definitely is a thing as subjective reality. For instance somebody can call me sa anctimonious prig because I offend them with some of my posts, while those who know me intimately think I’m the greatest thing since sliced beef.

We have however been down this road before, but let me go down here again for those who did not read the earlier posts.

That picture would be Picasso’s artistic impression. It however would not be a very realistic depiction of his friend. It’s great for entertainment but would not suffice as a very good identikit of him. In fact it is so bad from an objective perspective, that his friend could not even identify himself. Whether it actually is great art on the other hand, is a matter of opinion--that's subjectivity.

You see, there are basically two types of realities. The painting represents Picasso’s subjective reality, and its lots of fun—it is his artistic impression. However a photograph of his friend would represent objective reality. That is a representation that any two people with a visual capacity and even a moronic intelligence can fully agree on with a conclusive answer. So for instance if a policeman were to use Picasso’s picture as an identikit, no one would in any way be able to identify the individual it supposedly represents. It therefore is a very poor representation of reality—as many subjective beliefs also are.

Objective reality would be a reality we all can reasonably consistently agree on.

The colour red is red. Your house is built with a brick wall or a wooden wall. We now know the earth is round, the moon revolves around the earth, and the earth around the sun, that’s unless you live in a remote jungle disconnected from the rest of the world where this information has not reached. These are definitions/knowledge of what we refer to as object-ive reality with which we make sense of the greater world around us. It helps keep us sane—so to know the proverbial wood from the trees.

This is not subjective as the definition we have given is just that, object-ive, unless you prefer to change the English language to adopt it to suite you ideology, and so to change this fundamental terminology to suite your eclectic interpretation of the nature of the world.

Thus we can say gravity is a law of the universe because we can bank on it every time—thus for instance, if you decide to jump off a 100m high cliff because you doubt the nature of objective reality, you will most definitely be reduced to a pulp. We cannot however say LoA is such a law of nature because it is absolutely not a repeatable and consistent phenomenon. In fact it has no veracity under any objective scrutiny, hence it is not a law of nature (or a phenomena of any kind), but merely a belief which one can choose as one's subjective truth if one wishes. Or not.

That choice is yours to make, but believing or intending it is, so, unfortunately for you, doesn’t make it so, as it merely will remain a figment of your imagination.