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Do i really exist?

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  • DO I REALLY EXIST?

    i've always thought Descartes was pretty strange to bother with such a ridiculous question as "do i exist". Now if you define "i" in terms of some kind of an everlasting identity such as an ego that's worth talking about. Maybe our individuality as human beings is a temporary identity necessary at the physical level of existence and that identity will indeed die. So is the soul the same as an eternal ego? Good question! Unfortunately most people's concept of life after death is nothing more than that! Soul however can be something very very subtle..in buddhism there are the dualist as opposed to the non dualists. The dualists believe that the soul always remains separate from god even though it is the same in quality as god while the non dualists believe that the soul merges into god and disappears just like a drop would merge into the ocean and cease to be a drop..the experience of the dualist and the non dualist however would ultimately be the same if you really go through the steps so i think the whole question is irrelevant..the knowledge of what can be experienced as pure soul is not available to anyone on this planet! i've also heard the "individual soul" vs. the "collective soul" argument and it seems like the same one.

    18%  Voted for by manfred, Malign Mentality, pnktrky.
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  • An image has been forming in my mind lately..
    Well. I'm very interested in psychology, and as I was reading about mental disorders.. It occurred to me:

    I could just be an illusion.
    All life could be a hallucination.
    And in the REAL, REAL world, I was in an asylum.
    Locked up like a bird in a cage.

    This keyboard in front of me, for instance.
    It might be a book.
    A card.
    Etc.

    What if in the REAL world I was the opposite gender.
    Or an entirely different person.
    Life as we know it could be nothing more than a wish.

    But this excludes OTHERS as well.
    Because if this is a hallucination, then the people you love don't exist either.
    ....
    That's a depressing thought.
    Forget I said that.
    12%  Voted for by Sayame, TeChNoWC.
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  • A dream only ?

    If some minute insects invisible to the naked eye have only a matter of seconds of life and yet they see that as a lifetime, could it be that we are as puny and insignificant to something else as they are to us ? If their lifetime is nothing compared to ours then ours may be nothing to others who are so large that we don't see them or they us. We might just be a dream of some vast creature and what is only seconds in that creature's dream is our whole history. Our destruction and annihilation rest with their waking up. Scary eh ? camus

    12%  Voted for by camus, deafforevr.
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  • You Are What You Were Before the Big Bang

    That which is eternal is that which you are. That which was before the Big Bang, that which all of us share, that which you externalize is but an internalization of who we are: that infiniteness, nothingness, the inside/outside consciousness which is contant and all else revolves around.

    Voted for by david13.
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  • Existing: An Art form.

    Yes, you really exist.

    ex·ist vi 1. to be, especially to be a real, actual, or current thing, not merely something imagined or written about 2. to be alive or continue to live 3. to be present or found in a particular place or situation 4. to manage to survive or stay alive 5. to live an unsatisfactory, joyless, or humdrum life, as opposed to an exciting or meaningful one

    Encarta® World English Dictionary © 1999 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Developed for Microsoft by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

    You are living correct? You feel? You affect people? Then you ARE.

    Voted for by Kayden S.
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  • I think, therefore I am

    "Cogito, ergo sum" "I think, therefore I am")... René Descartes.

    Your eyes do not see things they just act as a lens. Your brain then processes the information provided by your visual cortex and finally tells you what you are seeing. If you had a lion a honey bee and a human being all looking at a yellow flower, the lion would see it as black and white, the honey bee would see it as red and the human would see it as yellow.

    Every experience we have in this world including feeling, seeing, hearing, tasting and smelling is all determined on how our brain is set up to receive the information.

    We only exist as thought.

    Voted for by Yanyin.
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  • what if we...

    all are just apart of someone else’s imagination, just maybe there is another world in side of our heads on the subconscious of our mind.

    Random isn't it?

    Voted for by Chanell.
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  • Maybe not
    Do you exist? I have no way of knowing that you are nothing more than a product of my own imagination. All of my senses are controlled by my brain, but maybe my brain made it all up.

    Do I exist? Yes, I think I do. But what does it mean to exist? How can one gauge existance? The most popular way to answer the question if I'm real or not is "I think, therefore I am" Seems pretty fair to me.
    Voted for by Red Death.
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  • vipassana.tv

    pls visit www.vipassana.tv

    Voted for by anusornk.
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  • Are did who what?
    No! Why would you think something so proposterous! A person? Existing? Bahahahaha!
    Voted for by Backward thgindiM.
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  • sometimes i wonder
    Sometimes i wonder about the world around me.
    i wonder if my conscious is the only true existence.

    Example the term "I think there for i am" well if such power lay in a though why not "I think there for you are"
    your consciousness is what my consciousness believes it is. we existence is a complex system of "lives" interconnection with one & other forming a "network" all inter connecting but like all networks there must always be a source... a single consciousness creating the connection but if this is true what is real. sometimes i wonder if when i close the door the world continues to exist on the other side.... out of sight is out of mind, is out of mind out of existence. Do i exist of am i an idea of a person thought up by the source of existence to create on more connection in his web........ food for thought
    Voted for by The-Brain.
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  • Existence Exsists
    I don't think we have enough brain power to determine existance on an individual level. But there is exsistance. The fact that we have conciousness says that. Exactly what that exsistance is... thats another matter altogether. I hope there is more to it than meets the eye. Would be depressing if this is the face value of it.
    Voted for by Razed.
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