Do we exist?

[aluka]

if i don't prove that we exist am i going to be considered a fantasizer because i assert that i exist anyway?

there is a competing philosophy that says "nobody exists except me." i don't remember what that one is called ...

Solipsism is the philosophy that the only thing you can be sure of is your own existence.

 

[Red Door]

I cannot prove my existence, only believe in it.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

I know I (defining "I" as the sum of the thoughts I am currently experiencing) exist; everyone else, as well as the past, I have no proof on.

 

[tomsnowman123]

"Being is the great explainer." -- Henry David Thoreau.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

It explains me, but not all you chumps.

 

[malclave]

It explains me, but not all you chumps.

Again, this is from reading Descartes a couple of decades ago, but I think the rest of us are just either angels to reward you or demons to torment you.

 

[puglover]

As far as I know, yes, we do. That's all I can say.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

Again, this is from reading Descartes a couple of decades ago, but I think the rest of us are just either angels to reward you or demons to torment you.

Mostly demons. Even the hotties end up just tormenting me a la Tantalus.

 

[Zarn]

I can prove my existence to myself. Since my opinion is the only one that matters, I'm good.

You all don't exist, though. I'm sure of it. Everyone else in the world is too weird.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

No, you're wrong. I know me to exist, but not you.

. . . This is precisely why solipsists never hang out together.

 

[Zarn]

No, you're wrong. I know me to exist, but not you.

. . . This is precisely why solipsists never hang out together.

How could I be wrong, if I do not exist?

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

My mind perceives that which I label "you" to be wrong.

 

[Zarn]

My mind perceives that which I label "you" to be wrong.

You cannot prove it. You cannot even be sure of what I am saying.

 

[Sahkuhnder]

If life were a dream, where are all the hot chicks?

Here in Vegas, any nightclub, any night, by the hundreds.



Do we exist? Oddly, it doesn't matter. We have no choice but to proceed as if we do and act accordingly. What other option is there?

 

[Narz]

Nope, God alone is.

I guess you're out of the loop. Perhaps everyone is God but you.

 

[col]

if i don't prove that we exist am i going to be considered a fantasizer because i assert that i exist anyway?

there is a competing philosophy that says "nobody exists except me." i don't remember what that one is called ...

Extreme solipsism

 

[FriendlyFire]

I exist and dont exist at the same time.
(Thanks quantum physics thanks a lot)

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Spoiler :

Immanuel Kant was a real pissant
Who was very rarely stable.

Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
Who could think you under the table.

David Hume could out-consume
Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, [some versions have 'Schopenhauer and Hegel']

And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel.

There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya
'Bout the raising of the wrist.
Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed.

John Stuart Mill, of his own free will,
On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill.

Plato, they say, could stick it away--
Half a crate of whisky every day.

Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle.
Hobbes was fond of his dram,

And René Descartes was a drunken fart.
'I drink, therefore I am.'

Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed,
A lovely little thinker,
But a bugger when he's pissed.

Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle.
Hobbes was fond of his dram,

And René Descartes was a drunken fart.
'I drink, therefore I am.'

 

[CurtSibling]

All of you who doubt my existence, give me your home address and I will prove that I do violently exist!

 

[Bozo Erectus]

Do we exist?

I think that I think, therefore I think I am.


Take that Descarte! (makes an obscene gesture and blows a rasberry in Descartes general direction)