I Love Second Life
My Second Reality began when I stumbled into the Elf Circle lands. It was here, among these people, I accepted the truth ~ it doesn’t matter where you go, there you are.
I am a fervent supporter of Second Life as a builder, student, teacher, and willing guide for newcomers …
of Elf Circle as a Guardian, Greeter, Poet Laureate and troublemaker …
*♥* Elf Circle Poet Laureate 2008 & 2007 *♥*
and of Linden Labs as an annually paid resident of Second Life as Rose Mackie and as an alternate account …
Participation in Second Life is not an entitlement. Currently, it is optional and free. However, if you don’t support the process by participation you have no right to complain. Simply being a vendor, a builder, or a buyer is not support. It’s like being an illegal alien on wellfare. Come on, nut up. You pay $15 USD a month to bash orcs, why not $75 a year to be your wildest dream.
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Consensus Reality
Consensus reality is an approach to answering the question ‘What is real?’, a profound philosophical question, with answers dating back millennia. It gives a practical answer – reality is either what exists, or what we can agree by consensus seems to exist; the process has been (perhaps loosely and a bit imprecisely) characterized as “[w]hen enough people think something is true, it… takes on a life of its own.”
Consensus reality occurs when others agree with your interpretation of what you see and experience and we all forget that we’re only dealing with our habitual interpretations and not reality itself. Even if others share our experiences and agree with our interpretations, that still doesn’t make them real. It merely means that we’re all sharing the same illusion.
What are you?
Materialists
Materialists, however, may not accept the idea of there being different possible realities for different people, rather than different beliefs about one reality. So for them only the first usage of the term reality would make sense. To them, someone believing otherwise, where the facts have been properly established, might be considered delusional.
Objectivists
Objectivists, though not necessarily materialists, also reject the notion of subjective reality; they hold that while each individual may indeed have their own perception of reality, that perception has no effect on what reality actually is; in fact, if the perception of reality differs significantly from the actual reality, serious negative consequences are bound to follow.
Idealists
Some idealists, subjective idealists hold the view that there isn’t one particular way things are, but rather that each person’s personal reality is unique. Such idealists have the world view which says that we each create our own reality, and while most people may be in general agreement (consensus) about what reality is like, they might live in a different (or nonconsensus) reality.
