A post and a response. On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 9:15 PM, Drmaruthur <drmaruthur@gmail.com> wrote: My Life Life is a dream. We don't know where we came from except some may say, we are born into the world. Only beings who say. we are born, are the beings already in the dream. Then we go on in a dream-living as though it is real.  In this dream we feel things as real because of our 'senses'  which includes the brain. We really cannot explain how senses and brain do their THINGS. Then we dream during the day and night. The day dreams are persistent and appreciated by all the brings in their own dream. ( a group dream) Then we disappear and only the beings in their dream feel we are dead ( disappeared). The person who died dies not know it. Anyway our individual dreams has ended. In our night dream we don't know we fall asleep and dream another set of life events which are as real as the 'real' life while you are sleeping. Then we wake up to our 'waking dreams' to live another day. The beings  include the whole universe. We try to explain our dreams with thoughts (dreams), words, numbers, concepts and ideas. We have written books using dream words based in dream thoughts. And a lot of theories, theory of this and that in the physical realm.  But they are also dreams. If we deeply dream about it, we have no real existence. In the metaphysical level we have religious scriptures which we have created by men. Nobody has any real life ideas yet, but may have dreamy hallucinations about our birth, death and creations. (Including God and gods and done people no god, etc) I have no idea how that explains life. But I don't get it. This is how I ( me- this dreamer) feel about it. I wish I could fall into everybody's dream and enjoy life better. Sent from my iPhone	8:17 PM (9 hours ago)

My response:

On Dec 24, 2013, at 12:00 AM, "Sudhakaran P.P." <sudhakaranpp@gmail.com> wrote:

Just a random response, as vacuous as a response can ever be!

Any philosophical discourse, which is what your posts really are, can be from a personal or from a universal stand point. "Life is a dream", "We do not know" and the like, incidentally, have the form of universal statements. That is the attraction many may find in your posts.

The other is the personal viewpoint. 

All universal statements, if in a public domain, are liable to be ignored, endorsed, challenged or disputed. Critical readers generally challenge or dispute. That is why one wisecrack is alleged to have said, 'For every philosopher there shall be an equal and opposite philosopher!' 

Personal beliefs and convictions, on the other hand, are usually left alone. They are invariably just untested opinions floated for responses, or left in a limbo for no better options. By convention they are qualified explicitly or implicitly with an 'I think' or 'I believe'. 

Readers follow personal opinions for different reasons. Some read out of curiosity about the person behind the posts. Some, who are generally serious, read looking for ideas resonating with their own. 

But, when a personal opinion is presented from a universal standpoint, there are bound to be problems. Of course, for the readers! These problems are compounded when the ideas expressed are abstract. 

A good example for an abstract idea is dream. It may be true that we dream, but what we dream or think we dreamt are not real. Needless to say, one cannot dream another's dream, that is, unless one is in Alice's Wonderland. The dreamer himself cannot be sure about whether he dreamt or what he dreamt. Such a terribly personal, virtual, fleeting and little understood experience can never be a universal denominator. If I say, 'Life is a dream', it will convey precious little by way of meaning. The question is not whether you are right or I am right or anyone is right. 

Not that you do not know these. Still, I thought I would just respond to this post of yours.

Wish you a warrm, happy Christmas

His Response:
Your response is more dreamy than my post on life   That is good. I have put your response on FB without mentioning ur name.

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