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what do you think all of this "reality" thing is really about?
Nope. Perhaps you should take responsibility for clearly communicating what you want to discuss.
buddhist
Well-Known Member
IMO, I liken "Reality" to a sort of video game called "Samsara".
The ultimate goal of this game is for us, the living players in this universal game, to identify the common thread which runs through all aspects of the game, and to conquer it in order to exit the game. The common thread being suffering itself, the "big boss".
Most people instead involve themselves with the lesser goals in the game (various manifestations or symptoms of suffering), which, when conquered, advance them into the next higher level in the game with additional abilities and powers, but not out of the game.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
You already know the answers.
My serious answer is: I have no idea what "reality" is really all about. To me, it's a mystery, all a wonderful mystery...we can experience the mystery, celebrate the mystery, investigate the mystery, interpret the mystery, but we'll never completely understand the mystery. At least I expect I never will. Maybe one day I'll be surprised.
Why does it have to be "about" anything? Can't the sky just be?
Aquitaine
Well-Known Member
Seemed pretty easy to comprehend from the title alone.
I honestly have no idea. Reality appears to be a sea of sensory phenomena that we're all slaved in to until we die. For what purpose - if any - I have no idea.
"... slaved in to until we die"
How very dramatic: so much grammatically challenged angst. 
Spideymon77
A Smiling Empty Soul
I like your answer!
Consider the numberline, complex numbers and fractals. Observe that a fractal is a beautiful and infinitely complex image created by graphing a repetitive operation such as dividing a number repeatedly, thus partially revealing the number line. You can see some fractals in this 2 minute video: here
Now after that, consider that there is infinite complexity in simple order. Each number is a unique distance from 1, and between all numbers there exist many unique relations mixed in with some common relations. These relations are so complex and so unlimited, that is entirely possible that you and I and everything we think we 'See' is really part of the relations that exist in the infinite, infinite, infinite set of all relations. In other words, we are really part of the numberline (such as fractal representations of it). So what is really going on, in that case, is that we are witnessing a small part of all that is permanently stored in numbers themselves, which we are only partially able to comprehend. Also I think if that is the case, then we are unlikely to be the most complex beings. There are probably some beings who see things so much better that we are comparatively like dogs and cats, and then there are probably beings more complex than they are...and so on. Beauty probably has levels to it, things that are 'More beautiful' than we can perceive or 'More ugly'. Intelligence as we know it is probably almost nothing compared to what is out there somewhere. There may be no end to what is possible...or there may be a point at which complexity ceases, but complexity of number appears to have no end. There appears to be no end to the surprises which exist in numbers. Anyway here is a fun video (first of a series) which explores how large numbers can be and how to represent them on paper. Ridiculously Huge Numbers
Have fun exploring the universe.
Burl
Active Member
looking a gift-horse in the mouth
Aquitaine
Well-Known Member
"... slaved in to until we die"
How very dramatic: so much grammatically challenged angst.
No angst is intended.
We are under the ownership of nature, we did not consent in to being born, ergo it is something we have been slaved in to. The only alternative to life is death.
I am not being dramatic, I think it's a fairly reasonable word to use.
I do love how you're being your usual self though: looking down whilst on that stallion of yours.
Burl
Active Member
Given the alternative
Anyone would jump at the chance at being at being a slave mosquito or reptile.
Kueid
Avant-garde
Your answer seems to be "about nothing".. and yes, you are right.. it doesn't "have" to be about something, but I don't know.. something being about nothing..