I’ve been toying with the idea of Circles of Fiction in my head and have tried to draw it out visually. Ultimately, the only reality in which I believe is physics–matter, energy, time, and space. However, I do believe in many other pseudo realities, but only within the circles of fiction in which they exist.

Do I believe that life has meaning? Ultimately, no. But do I believe that MY life has meaning, or that YOUR life has meaning? Yes, definitely, but only after acknowledging that we’re operating within the fictions of Self and Society, respectively.

Similarly, within these same fictions, I believe that suffering is very real and that we all make choices, because duh, of course it is and we do–but not REALLY, not outside of the circle of fiction called Self (or ego).

As to moral relativism (nothing is right or wrong, there is neither good nor bad, nothing is true or false), I’m with you. I totally agree. Unless we’re pretending that Society exists. Then all of those things surely exist, and the rules and regulations of Society must be diligently built around their existence.

However, I don’t believe right or wrong exist within the fiction of Self only, and I doubt you would either, if you somehow became the only conscious being in existence.

I didn’t include anything supernatural. Because I don’t believe in anything supernatural in any form, or within any circle of fiction.