I am only here to talk about an idea that I have about our existential being.
String theory suggests that there are various realities, there are thousands of conscious beings on this planet such as geese, chickens, monkeys or whatever. So what if every conscious being has a reality of its own and there is no real reality only the reality every being exists within.
can I say this?
can I say this?
is this or that a life?
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Hi Hermes, I admire your honesty.
What about if there is no reality, real or otherwise, and we are all just somebody's (God's????) dream? and ... does it matter? So far as we as individuals are concerned 'I think, therefore I am' and I'm determined to make the best of it (I think
) w.
What about if there is no reality, real or otherwise, and we are all just somebody's (God's????) dream? and ... does it matter? So far as we as individuals are concerned 'I think, therefore I am' and I'm determined to make the best of it (I think
) w.Money talks - but it dont sing and dance and it cant walk.
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Hi AFairy. Just had to fetch the dictionary. Very clever the way you missed the first 'I' out of solipsistic. Does that mean that if the 'I' is missing then the 'I' doesnt exist or does that mean the whole world, sorry word, doesnt have any meaning? 
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w.Money talks - but it dont sing and dance and it cant walk.
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I used to get very worried by this when I was little; what if I'm just a dream, or I don't really exit? Aaarrgh.
Then one day I had one of moments of clarity and it was all so clear. To sum it up, the very process of me questioning my own existence caused me to exist. The cool, clear understanding that you get in those lucid moments has passed by I can remember the conclusion so I stopped worrying.
As for there being different realities I don't have a problem with this either. We can all accept that on a small scale there are subjective truths. E.g. I really didn't mean to offend someone by saying something but at the same time I really did offend them. For me this applies on a larger scale as well because truth and reality are both illusory, at least in terms of what my limited little mind can grasp.
I'm not too worried by this and sometimes find it quite liberating. Think of it in historical terms, in 1000 years will you, any of your endeavors or any concept of You exist? Of course they won't. You as a solid reality will have ceased, but what if this solid reality never existed in the first place? Thus we see the problem with our ideas of what 'Reality' is. We exist and are real but in a manner that we don't, or aren't capable of understanding.
What a lot of twaddle I've written, must go and watch the Matrix now, ooo, it's sooo Sunyata
Then one day I had one of moments of clarity and it was all so clear. To sum it up, the very process of me questioning my own existence caused me to exist. The cool, clear understanding that you get in those lucid moments has passed by I can remember the conclusion so I stopped worrying.
As for there being different realities I don't have a problem with this either. We can all accept that on a small scale there are subjective truths. E.g. I really didn't mean to offend someone by saying something but at the same time I really did offend them. For me this applies on a larger scale as well because truth and reality are both illusory, at least in terms of what my limited little mind can grasp.
I'm not too worried by this and sometimes find it quite liberating. Think of it in historical terms, in 1000 years will you, any of your endeavors or any concept of You exist? Of course they won't. You as a solid reality will have ceased, but what if this solid reality never existed in the first place? Thus we see the problem with our ideas of what 'Reality' is. We exist and are real but in a manner that we don't, or aren't capable of understanding.
What a lot of twaddle I've written, must go and watch the Matrix now, ooo, it's sooo Sunyata
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Hi Hermes. Modern quantum-based models of reality don't suggest any such thing - they DEMAND it. And it really looks like the quantum models are correct. It's mind-bending, certainly, but nothing to worry about. Whatever the truth, we're all here and have to work in what might be an unreal reality. I still shiver when I get cold, eat when I'm hungry, and have to go to the loo occasionally.
It all adds to the beauty of the universe.
It all adds to the beauty of the universe.
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