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19 Jul 2008, 12:02 pm

@ SIXLUCY
Maybe this is a very cheeky assumption but it sounds like you might agree with me as far as... 'normal' - for want of a better word - external, measureable realty is concerned; but that you're also using the word reality to designate things that I would probably ascribe entirely to the realm of subjective experience, & I've a feeling we wouldn't find much to agree about there.
Also, I'm worried we've hijacked this thread & dragged it way off topic?

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19 Jul 2008, 12:05 pm

One of my thoughts is what if reality changes, what if all memory up to a single moment is made up, how could we tell if certain things were some kind of truman show or total things we think have happend in our minds were tricks. How can we trust that any past is not some fashioned story like in that movie where people think that they were saved as children or something and put into quarinteen to protect them when they are actualy clones that are being harbourd for organs.


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19 Jul 2008, 12:05 pm

SIXLUCY wrote:
I dont refuse to accept anything. Everything is real to me.


And to me, as well. :wink:



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19 Jul 2008, 12:07 pm

Bradleigh wrote:
One of my thoughts is what if reality changes, what if all memory up to a single moment is made up, how could we tell if certain things were some kind of truman show or total things we think have happend in our minds were tricks. How can we trust that any past is not some fashioned story like in that movie where people think that they were saved as children or something and put into quarinteen to protect them when they are actualy clones that are being harbourd for organs.


This is the difference between sanity and insanity, what you just wrote.



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19 Jul 2008, 12:10 pm

Yay I am sain. :farao:


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19 Jul 2008, 12:12 pm

I dont think I believe in insanity.

What is this world..



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19 Jul 2008, 1:13 pm

What that a rhetorical question?

You're in a a deep reverie .................snap out of it!



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19 Jul 2008, 1:41 pm

Snap out of what :evil: ...reality?

It is my reality



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19 Jul 2008, 2:22 pm

slowmutant wrote:
Bizarreness is, after all, completely relative.

And my relatives are more bizarre than most. :)


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19 Jul 2008, 4:03 pm

I dont believe thay NTs are as bizarre as we think. Actually I think they are just like us. They have minds that are interested in arranging things and getting things in a certain order and symmetry.

They feel sensitive to when things are out of whack to what they should be.

But, instead of arranging objects and information in their minds, like we do, they want people to be in order, and they are sensitive to situations where people are behaving in an out of whack way. So therefore: social OCD, instead of object OCD, or information OCD. They are the same as us, only different.

Thats what I think, anyway. Just a matter of different wiring.

OCD is not a disorder, but universal to the human condition.


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19 Jul 2008, 4:06 pm

Yeah I agree



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19 Jul 2008, 4:41 pm

Do they not think in pictures?



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19 Jul 2008, 6:12 pm

zen_mistress wrote:
So therefore: social OCD, instead of object OCD, or information OCD. They are the same as us, only different.

I like that.


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19 Jul 2008, 6:50 pm

Sometimes it seems like people who use all this 'your reality' and 'my reality' stuff, actually use the word 'reality' when they really mean 'experience' or 'opinion'.


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20 Jul 2008, 1:35 am

My reality is that I agree your reality.



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20 Jul 2008, 3:33 am

MrMark wrote:
zen_mistress wrote:
So therefore: social OCD, instead of object OCD, or information OCD. They are the same as us, only different.

I like that.


Thanks. It is nice to have a different way of looking at neurotypicals for a change. They are hard to understand, and I think the more understanding between people on the spectrum and neurotypicals, the better it will be for everyone. I also think that it helps to understand NTs a bit when learning social skills because then you know whats going on a bit better.


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