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 Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 10:55 pm
How do you feel about pipe-dream philosophy? Musings such as, "I may not exist, or I could be a spirit floating in a bottle kept by an evil genie"(Descartez's musing)
Personally. I'm a nihilistic existentialist. I didn't find a philosophy and go for it. I read up, and it basically just fits my beliefs exactly.
But not to get off on a tangent, how do you feel about pipe-dream philosophy? I say I'm tired of it. I say, drop a bowling ball on your foot and tell me with a straight face that no bowling ball just smashed all the bones in your foot. Then go on walking without getting it fixed. The bowling ball isn't there afterall, eh?
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Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 6:57 am
Digital Leviathan How do you feel about pipe-dream philosophy? Musings such as, "I may not exist, or I could be a spirit floating in a bottle kept by an evil genie"(Descartez's musing) Personally. I'm a nihilistic existentialist. I didn't find a philosophy and go for it. I read up, and it basically just fits my beliefs exactly. But not to get off on a tangent, how do you feel about pipe-dream philosophy? I say I'm tired of it. I say, drop a bowling ball on your foot and tell me with a straight face that no bowling ball just smashed all the bones in your foot. Then go on walking without getting it fixed. The bowling ball isn't there afterall, eh? The ball exists, just in a dimension created by the evil gennnie. As all we feel is an impuls the ghost might create artificial impulses in our brain. (Damn smart ghost! And so good with neurology.)
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Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 7:24 pm
Digital Leviathan Musings such as, "I may not exist, or I could be a spirit floating in a bottle kept by an evil genie"(Descartez's musing) I am unfamiliar with all of the background behind this but I personally think in the opposite way. Instead of "I may not exist" I say "I do exist" and that's meh thinking.
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Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 2:42 am
I find anything is a possiblity.
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Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 11:33 am
I find that most "pipe-dream philosophy," as you put it, can be easily overcome with a little rationality and thinking.
For example, the idea that I may not exist:
If I don't exist, and I live as if I do, I lose nothing.
If I don't exist, and I live as if I don't, I lose nothing.
If I do exist, and I live as if I do, I lose nothing.
If I do exist, and I live as if I don't, I lose everything.
Out of all the possibilities, I never lose anything by living as if I do exist. 50% of the time, I lose everything by living as if I don't exist. The logical answer? Live as if I exist regardless of whether I do or not.
Do I exist? If the answer is no, who asked the question?
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