If I haven't said it enough or made it clear and simple about the fact that we live in agreement reality, then I will make that attempt once again. Agreement reality is the place in our social imagination where the information we receive is either agreed on or discarded.
That which is agreed on or not is based on our existing social information agreement reality (in the social imagination) and how solid or fragile it is. And, yes... we can grow in our information agreement as much as we can grow in disagreement.
It all starts with mother and then father and so on... Mother imparts the information agreement reality she exists in (at that time) and hopefully it is supported and or complimented by father and so on...
So many intellectuals: scientists, philosophers, academics as well as theologians, contemplate 'reality'. Those that are scientists and or amateurs, always go for the math, the numbers, the hard core stuff in order to define reality. But, they fail to ever really find it because they agree on the wrong stuff. They fail to grasp that reality is only what we make... what we decide to agree on.
Sure, a lot of math and physics are agreed on and those agreements have supposedly gotten man a lot farther... but farther in what/where? No really anywhere ... unless we agree that farther in terms of agreement reality.
But, essentially, we really only go farther into questioning and or doubting what is real and if that happens and it does often... then what we agreed on previously is no longer good enough. Once a theory or equation takes us to where we imagine we want to go... someone or something else comes along with a desire toward a different agreement... direction in agreement information reality.
That 'new' direction only goes somewhere when others fall away from their previous agreements and latch onto the new ones. And, that happens only when their is a social advantage in changing agreement as in a new level of prestige or a new 'euphoric' experience in finding news ways to agree.
If you want an illustration then think about language. In every language, there is meaning but only because there is agreement. What is agreed on? That the information shared is useful enough that we consider it as meaningful. They names and places and histories within a language are all subject to that process... information agreement reality which takes place only in the social imagination... in the mind of one and many who agree.
So, what does that mean? It means that there are many realities existing in the many different information agreement realities in the social imaginations of many. Sounds weird but its not.
Reality is found everywhere for everyone in the place where you can find it... in the social imagination. Each framed by information that is either agreed on or discarded as nonsense or useless. Its easy to manipulate information and the social imagination ... so be careful what you agree on because it could become the next or new reality in your social imagination!
Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.” ~ John 6:29.
I have had people tell me... Einstein had it all wrong, Max Planck too and Newton because gravity doesn't hold things together... its electromagnetism - Tesla! You see, its what we agree on and sometimes those agreements do take us places and sometimes we just want to go somewhere else. If only people would agree with God... He is absolute, we might really go somewhere!
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