> > One poster lives in a reality in which many of his > > fellow posters work for the CIA or the Dalai Lama, > > and are paid to spread lies about Maharishi, TM, > > Benny Hill (or Creme...I can never keep those two > > straight), crop circles and Space Brothers. And we > > get the feeling that what really pisses him off the > > most about this reality he perceives around him is > > that these CIA-Buddhists make more money than he does. > > > > Another poster lives in a reality in which he *knows* > > what is Right and Wrong and *knows* What God Wants > > because he read it in the "Vedic literature." For him > > those books define reality, even though they rarely > > describe anything that would be considered Reality > > by anyone else. Yet another poster lives in a reality > > in which women are perpetual victims, and the only > > acceptable response to this is that everyone should > > feel as perpetually bummed out about this as she does. > > > > At least one poster, recently returned from a hiatus, > > lives in a reality populated by butterflies and feel- > > good things. Another lives in a reality that is about > > to dissolve into civil war and chaos. Still another > > lives in a reality in which everyone lies but herself, > > and anyone who doesn't agree that she's Right about > > everything has just misread what she wrote. In her > > reality everything would be better if everyone except > > her just read and reread her posts enough times to > > realize how REEEAALLY REEEAALLY STOOOPID > > they are and how smart she is. > > > > And, for each of these posters, these perceptions of > > the world around them isn't just their reality, it's > > Reality. > > Judy wrote: > And for Barry, these descriptions of other posters' > behavior are his reality, which is markedly different > from consensus reality, and even from the reality > represented by the archival record of their posts. > > <snip> > > There is no Reality here. There is only the collision > > of different realities, and the hologrammic image that > > appears as a result of their interaction. No one's > > individual reality "wins," even though many claim > > to have "won." The battles *that* they've "won" are > > as illusory as the realities they're trying to impose > > on others. > > It's very important to Barry that no one reality be > any more valid than any other, because that way *he > can never be wrong, nor can he ever be said to lie*. > He desperately needs this justification for his > solipsism. > Which is really too funny, since almost everything Barry knows was either obtained from a book or from listening to someone telling him something.
Apparently Barry has not a single apriori source of knowledge or gnosis. Everything he knows comes to him from his senses, mainly his eyes and his ears. Barry's reality consists of sense knowledge - he doesn't mention one single insight that he obtained through experience or wisdom.
