Also, I actually agree that everything matters… to whom a specific thing matters. But nothing inherently matters outside of a person’s perception of said thing. Not very eloquently worded, but I think you catch my drift.

Basically what I was asking is precisely what Tim noted in the comments above. About why do we keep going on with this incessant quest for truth, be it from our own memory, experience, or from other points of view….when nothing we do really matters in the grand sense? And his reply, because it’s all we have, seems pretty spot on as far as I’m concerned.

Because it’s fun.

Amen to that. I would get bored without it, definitely.

because you are not a single reality but a part of a group of realities bound tightly together in the net of Indra.

Technically though, that belief falls into the whole thing about having created a private reality vis-a-vis your belief system. Doesn’t it? Even if your private reality includes others?

The fact that you must convince yourself to exude energy so as to become aware of the validity of others realities is disturbing, do you feel other’s realities are without merit? or is it merely a case of youthful disaffection or do you feel that you are isolated from the rest of humanity for some reason?

First off, I didn’t put this up here to criticize this person, but because on a lot of levels I can identify with what he’s saying. I think he’s just asking why keep going? What does it matter? I don’t think asking those questions is inherently disturbing. It’s necessary at certain times.

why bother talking about yours with someone else?

Because it’s fun.

Why does it seem that the outer world is so real, and that the inner world is so personal as to be incommunicable?

When you make two one, and when you make the inside the outside and the outside the inside, and the above like the below, and when you make the male and female one and the same…then you will enter (the Kingdom).

Do not be mistaken: all knowledge of the outer world is known only through the senses. If you get down to it, you can only indirectly perceive the outer world. Therefore, all knowledge is rooted primarily in the inner personal experience. The fact that the outer world seems coherent and logical is no proof, since your faculty to discriminate between “coherence” and “incoherence” is entirely internal.

However, solipsism is not warranted by these observations. There is the possibility there is a universal, transpersonal component to the inner world, a universal ground of being which can only be found through introspection, not outrospection of sensory phenomena.

In the Heaven of Indra, there is said to be a network of pearls, so arranged that if you look at one you see all the others reflected in it. In the same way each object in the world is not merely itself but involves every other object and in fact IS everything else. “In every particle of dust, there are present Buddhas without number.

Sir Charles Elliot

but for the life of me, I can’t convince myself that it’s worth exuding the energy attempting to do so. . .

The fact that you must convince yourself to exude energy so as to become aware of the validity of others realities is disturbing, do you feel other’s realities are without merit? or is it merely a case of youthful disaffection or do you feel that you are isolated from the rest of humanity for some reason?

Next time you’re feeling solipsistic, try getting yourself arrested. Next time you wonder about the relevance of other people’s worldviews, try walking through a housing project at 3 am with an iPod and a nice pair of sneakers. Next time you wonder about the downside to totalitarianism, try driving around with a copule ounces of any given drug in your glove box, or take some photos of your local federal building. Yes, objective reality has a lot of cheshire cat/silly putty qualities to it, but it’s still there.

Magick is real. Synchronicities are meaningful. We underestimate the power of our minds. But bullets are still real. Prison is still hell. People are still the most dangerous creatures on the planet. Reality is still out there and it can hurt you.

Not to be negative. Life can be beautiful and good. But if you should ever start to wonder why you should engage life or participate in the human project, then look to the simple pragmatic fact that you are the first and final protector of your own personal well being.

because talking to people helps you clarify your own views.

because other people are wondrous and fascinating and you don’t need any more reason than that really.