Are the questions: "What is real?" and "What is NOT real?" inherently and invariably interconnected?

"Real" is simply what you can perceive.

Nothing more, nothing less.

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Some of us never "left".

Some are just.....imprisoned, for now.

Song - Jethro Tull - "Nothing is Easy".

Nothing is easy,

Though time gets you worrying,

My friend, it's OK

Just take your life easy

And stop all that hurrying,

Be happy my way

When tension starts mounting

And you've lost count of the pennies you've missed,

Just try hard

And see why they're not worrying me,

They're last on my list

Nothing's easy

Nothing is easy,

You'll find that the squeeze

Won't turn out so bad

Your fingers may freeze,

Worse things happen at sea,

There's good times to be had

So if you're alone

And you're down to the bone,

Just give us a play

You'll smile in a while

And discover that I'll get you happy my way

Nothing's easy

In much the same way as the questions "what is a kumquat" and "what is not a kumquat" are inherently and invariably interconnected. It just sounds less profound to say it when you're talking about kumquats. http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Kumquat

It's "really" all an illusion - but that's about the best thread I've read in a year!

I would say inherent, yet variable.

Sort of like how John Entwistle's bass playing

is both real and unreal at the same time..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dlN55SoF4Q

What is real? The ONE great truth which cannot be denied? Cogito ergo sum.... I think, therefore, I am ....and that these ladies can sing cannot be denied and not a dream... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG-QyKTmpLo

There are those who believe in the unreal. God, etc.

And they believe those beliefs to be real.

How can the idea of something not have an opposite?

Existence is real.

Sometimes it is easier to find what something is not, in order to find out what it is.

I suppose so when you think about it.