Reality Is As It Appears

(A response to: theclueexpress and wolfydanny)

Is reality as it appears?
Or is it all just smoke and mirrors?
An elaborate con job.
Are humans the most intelligent being in the universe,
or just the most gullible;
fools who see only what they want and believe only what they see.

Is the human race the epitome of Thomas?
Who, doubting, only believed in what he could see and touch for himself?
Or have we been duped? Is there a hidden element behind a veil – untouchable, un-viewable and unknowable by what we perceive as reality, yet real non-the-less?

If so, how can we avoid being deceived by this universal “sleight of hand” that keeps our eyes glued to the reality of a physical plaything science calls the universe; while all the while, the master magician religion calls God, pulls the strings behind our backs?

Do we continue to be children, easily deceived by the glittering playthings of empirical reality or do we finally step back and say whoa, something’s not right here, and refuse to be further duped?

Do we examine that feeling that we have often gotten through-out the ages; that uncomfortable feeling that we learned a long time ago to wrap in another comfortable reality and call it religion?

That gut feeling, often entertained between waking and sleeping, that there is something we just aren’t getting; something missing; something about how everything we see is just so perfect, like a stage show rehearsed many times. That, somehow, we are the playthings or audience of the gods, ignorantly watching as life and the universal show goes on.

Certainly we try to describe it with science, but even with science there is a bit of faith involved because we just don’t quite get the whole picture. We can almost taste that final scientific equation that explains everything perfectly, but we just can't quite get it. But how can we? Until we say, no more, how can we get the full measure of the truth that can set us free and allow us to finally discover the man behind the curtain pulling the levers and learn the rules to become our own masters?

Does it really get us any closer to the truth to just close our eyes and say he doesn't exist? Are we inherently frightened of the dark as when we were children? This denial of God sounds like the reaction of a hurt and frighten child hiding under the blankets with his eyes tightly closed to expel an uncomfortable reality.

Empirical Realism is the religion of the slave who was conned a very long time ago by a "snake" in a “garden” and lost sight of who he is, or was before he was deceived, and duped into the servitude of a physical reality. We are still mesmerized by the apple.
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