There is only one thing you can 100% know to be true, and that is that you exist. Anything can be false. What if I told you I was drinking water. I let you examine it: it looks like water, feels like water, smells like water, tastes like water. From simple observations of your senses, can you KNOW that it is water that I am drinking? Or is that just what your brain is ASSUMING for you? Any assumption of any kind means you cannot KNOW it to be TRUE. You have assumed it to be true. Stop trusting your senses.
Muu! hell yes! ive been sayin this shit for pages, n somebody finally agrees.
ok, for the rest of u- check it out. perception is the only thing thats real.
solipsism <read
i am the only thing i know to be real. i dont know what i am, where i am, when, etc, because these 'facts' are based on labels. (i will get back to this later) but i do know
that i am because i perceive (descartes-"i think, therefor i am"). i could try to question if i even perceive, but that would be ridiculous.
so perception is real. (ive never heard anybody here try to deny that, but im just throwin it out) now for more elaboration on the 'fuck everything else' bit.
(first of all, i want to make clear that i am not a childish, antisocial individual. what im about to say is the product of such a mindset, that is, it was conceived by me when i was a very unhappy person, but that shouldnt damage its legitimacy. if its "true" its "true." like u should with anything u here, u should listen with unbiased ears.
ive said shit like this around ppl before and ive seen them freeze up for a few seconds (seriously, like freeze frame almost no movement, blinking, breathing, etc) and then they just smile n go "ur high" or give me a really uncomfortable "dude ur creepin me out" look. so when u read this (nice intro, huh?) it will be obvious that a disconnected individual has thought of it. if ur gonna argue with me, (if somebody could prove me wrong i would be really surprised, maybe happy) "dude only a crazy person thinks like that" isnt an acceptable rebuttal. at least dissect/attack my assumptions if ur gonna prove me wrong. im goin to explain the idea behind the brain in the vat and then continue to explain how i see the universe, using what i believe to be reasonable theological deductions.)
solipsism is also sumtimes known as external world skepticism. say u live in the real world, that is, u believe in what u perceive to be true. that means u are looking at a monitor, reading words via an internet browser with other humans. the 'world' is separate from u. from anothers perspective, yes, u are a part of the world, but based from your direct experiences, u are different than the text u see on this page.
because of this separation, u rely on your senses to perceive the world. these senses are what u experience, not the actual "world". this goes along with the "brain in a vat" thought experiments. not a new idea, but some people have never thought about it before (hasnt everybody seen the matrix by now?)
so its possible that u dont have a computer, u may just be a brain hooked up to some machine thats sending electrical impulses, causing u to assume different things. now frthnkr85, u say a big reason we should believe in God is because His existence is
possible and shouldnt be ruled out... if something doesnt make sense, it doesnt make sense. ill admit that the existance of god might be possible, but its pretty much just as reasonable to think that ur a bioelectric battery used to power a race of AI robots. (creationism and solipsism arent popular among scientists, because they are unfalsifiable. that is, the scientific method is useless for analyzing such ideals. thats why i personally think that it ridiculous to try to prove chrsitanity wrong through scientific fact. if ur gonna prove it wrong,
skunk, u have to do it philosophically)
being that we are all separate from universe and rely on our senses to experience, our view of the world is limited to our ability to perceive. a blind person experiences a very different world than u and i. not a groundbreaking thought, but what does that entail? every single person has a different reality. even if there is a "real world" that we are all indirectly connected to, when we filter it through our senses, its different. and then our personalities and ideals fuck with it too. is the glass half empty or half full?
now, creationism seems to
be an obvious way to try to describe how things are for one simple reason. every thing u know is created somehow. this computer for instance. your computer was physically created piece by piece by somebody/something (probly an automated machine). but even in the "real world" this isnt really a computer. "computer" is simply a label we give the idea of a computer, and we all have a different idea of what "computer" is. the true creation of your computer, in your reality, wasnt when some robot assembled it, it was when u acknowledged its existence.
the thoughts of an afterlife seem appealing because people either are afraid of death and nonexistence because we dont fully understand it, or theyre kinda greedy and they want be rewarded by playing by the rules. everything that has a beginning has an end. but heres the thing- did u have a beginning? sure u have a birth certificate that says u were born unto this world at such n such time n date. but in your reality, based on your memory, do u remember a time that u didnt exist? certainly not.
WHAT I BELIEVE
when john doe dies, he will die. but i believe his 'soul' will keep going, it will be reborn as somebody else. the transition is done through dreams. his last and final dream, as he dies will be the beginning of his next life. when u die, u still perceive, but ull pretty much lose all memories of this life. your good/bad deeds will effect your conscience, at that will effect your next life. if u feel guilt on your death bed, u start off the next life as a cranky baby.
and when ur really young, time seems to be stretched out like crazy, so 2 years of bad guilt may almost seem like an eternity in hell. so if there is literal retribution after death maybe thats how it works. i gettin tired, im starting to ramble...
i think the Holy Bible is more or less a lesson in conservation. jesus n pals were wise enough to notice how indulgence works. people get greedy and speed up the process of nature. this planet will one day be destroyed, but because people indulge so much, its coming way faster.
we should just enjoy each others company, because in the largest scale, we are all one. were all alone in a way, i bet we are all the same person. the same consciousness. we all have the same soul. just one huge timeline. almost indefinite, but it is limited by the possibility of chance. then it starts over. im fuckin tired, and if u read all this i congratulate you. and i thank u. im feeling really good right now being i got all this shit summarized.
peace
