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“reality” is often a reflection of the culture and environment that they live
in. For example: in traditional Australian Aboriginal culture, a man calls his totem, or the place from which his spirit
came from, his dreaming. He may also explain the existence of a custom, or his law
of life, due to the dreaming" (Stanner, 1979).
This
contrasts western society where the two competing theory’s of existence are; Christianity,
which is a monotheistic belief in a Jewish zombie who
was his own father, that can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his
flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can then
remove an evil force from your soul (called sin) that is present in humanity
from the moment of birth, because a rib-woman was tricked by a talking snake, to
eat from a magical tree.
And evolution, the scientific theory that all life on earth descended from
a common ancestor. And
that organisms change over time, and that is change occurs through natural selection,
which allows favorable traits to be passed along through successive generations.
The
argument can be made that reality can never truly be known, and that no matter
how much time passes, different people and groups will continue believe in different
explanations for human existence, and that as technology improves, the
definition of “reality” is increasingly blurred as the virtual and real world build
upon one another creating an augmented reality.
Reference List
Stanner, W.E.H. (1979). The dreaming
(1953), in White man got no dreaming: Essays 1938-1973 (pp. 23-30).
Canberra, Australia: Australian National University Press.
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