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What do I know is real?
What is fantasy?
How could I tell the difference?

When were you born: in the year xxxx?
No, that was the year a baby was born. When were YOU born?
Did the baby eventually put YOU on like a suit of clothes, suit-able for the other 'suits' out there?
How could YOU then be real if you don't know where or even when you came from?
And could I even comprehend how reality has changed since that baby put on that "suit-of-clothes"?

Richard Rose, philosopher and author had a habit of asking people he met "What do you know for sure?"
He is often quoted: "Beliefs are foolishness. To doubt, is sacred. Doubt even me." (Cleveland Lecture 1975)
But how could you be sure by doubting everything?

The physicist Richard Feynman often stated that we are easily fooled, and I am the one who fools me the most.
To what degree is my comprehension of reality just foolishness?

Why does reality seem to have a strange characteristic:
"The more I look at things, the less I feel I know."
But is there a longing for certainty, for Something Big that I don't "have"?

Check out this five minute video, regarding how we comprehend reality:
https://youtube.com/shorts/_Sf174RMYmw?si=BnfAt4AuwON6cl2o

So what is real?
Is a desire for what is real, finally something that isn't meaningless?

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