Religion
In reply to the discussion: how does atheism/materialism account for [View all]TheBlackAdder
(28,182 posts)People are constantly told what to think and how to formulate their thoughts.
They might find something attractive as a child, only be be redirected by peer pressure, adversing, social norms, etc. These impressions change over the history of man, so they are not concrete, as reality would dictate
One day, prevalent thought was that attractive women were 30-40 lbs heavier than what they are today. Does that mean that a woman of the 1920's no longer holds the beauty that they one held?
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As such, things that are objectified in our minds as having certain traits, thoughts that express wants or desires, does not mean there is existence to them. It is how our minds place an abstract reality to thought or an object's true state.
The state of reality is, whatever is.. IS.
Any human associations are abstract impressions applied to it by the mind.