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It SORT OF exists...


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06-29-02

How can you "sort of exist"?


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06-29-02

Here's a question of existence regarding deism. If God made Existence, the left it alone, God must be outside of Existence, right? So, in the deist belief, does God exist?



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06-29-02

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How can you "sort of exist"?
Poor choice of words. Sorry, was tired.

It doesn't exist as a physical entity, only as mental imagery.


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06-30-02

A book called Sophie's World is good read if you are interested in philosophy. It's by person called Jostein Gaarder.

I get what Word is on about, its a concept called Sensual Slavery. Its that because the conscious will cannot directly interact with the physical environment everything that happens to us and all that we do is the result of sense stimulation and the workings of our mind. We only 'think' we can see the keys, letters and monitor because our brain sorts all the 'fuzzy' sensory information into neat and tidy concepts. Its also like the idea of the Matrix where if you could feed sensory information directly to the brain, bypassing the physical senses, the mind is still forced to believe that it is existing in a physical world and that it is receiving true interpretations of reality because the brain is being fed information and it doesn't know the difference. Therefore everything doesn't necessarilly actually exist it only sort of exists because the brain tells the conscious mind that it does. The world we know is only the brain's interpretation of the limited incoming sensory information.



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02-02-03

Eh. To think, you guys make new threads that do not strike the deeper things but when something comes up that there is no correct or explainable answer to you forget it. I wanted to reply so that this could become active.
SirVLVIC please write more on this subject. I am highly interested in it and greatly appricate it if I had someone to talk to about it. Philosophy is such a wonderful thing now isn't it?
Hoping, and can't wait for a reply.


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02-03-03

Very good question Guy_Person. I would like to know that one myself.


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02-03-03

Thanks. Here's a little one i cooked up, respond: The surest evidence that there is no center role in existence is the fact that htere are manyt successful ways to live, new ones being figured out constantly, many paths to take throuhg happiness in life, and so so so many destinations at the end of whatever road you take.



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02-19-03

There is no such thing as reality - only perceptions.


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Back


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03-18-04

gaw.....not this thread again.............
  
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03-18-04

lol.. I hear ya sic.... I hear ya... *pats*




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03-18-04

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There is no such thing as reality - only perceptions.
My perceptions are real.


'If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning, concerning matterof fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it contains nothing but sophistry and illusion.'

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My perceptions are real.
bah......prove it
  
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03-19-04

I can't. But you can prove to yourself that yours are real.


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03-19-04

Or at least, I'm going to assume so for my own sake. You might not even exist.


'If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning, concerning matterof fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it contains nothing but sophistry and illusion.'

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03-19-04

.. alright... I dont want to get into this.. because this topic is practically an excuse to argue because its one of those points that EVERYONE can and usually does have a differant view. .. BUT... the one point I would like to make.. is that not everything can be figured out SOLEY by logic... somethings you have to know in your 'heart'.. or lets say for the more technical people in here.. your subconcious can prove what is real or not farely easily... you just have to know how to listen.




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.. alright... I dont want to get into this.. because this topic is practically an excuse to argue because its one of those points that EVERYONE can and usually does have a differant view. .. BUT... the one point I would like to make.. is that not everything can be figured out SOLEY by logic... somethings you have to know in your 'heart'.. or lets say for the more technical people in here.. your subconcious can prove what is real or not farely easily... you just have to know how to listen.
Actually I would have to disagree. The subconscious proves nothing. If logic and the subconscious disagree then logic is correct. We instinctively know that the people around us exist, but we really cannot prove that they do. Is that a useful finding? No, not remotely. But that's philosophy.


'If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning, concerning matterof fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it contains nothing but sophistry and illusion.'

'The heart of man is made to reconcile the most glaring contradictions.'

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03-23-04

i thought i had a really practical explanation for it...

ah well... "Zombie Threads from the Deep"


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