(November 11, 2015 at 6:12 pm)RoadRunner79 Wrote:(November 11, 2015 at 6:09 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Evidence shows me that my memories are nebulous abstractions, even though I remember them as being concrete. For example, I have vivid memories of how people looked on certain days-- and then I look at a photograph, and think wow! that's really not how I remembered it.
I also know, through learning about psychology, how unreliable memories are, and that many childhood memories aren't memories at all, but reconstructions of things our parents have told us.
From this thread, I'm surprised the person was there at all for the photo or that you where there.
When you come face to fact with reality, and your response is sarcasm, then what does this mean? I'd suggest it means that you are finding a way to reconcile sense with nonsense, and the balance has not yet tipped one way or the other.
Unless you want to get deeply philosophical and examine solipsism, idealism, and other critical views of our sense of reality, then you are left with an uncomfortable fact: that sarcasm is not a good substitute for actual understanding.
