(March 23, 2017 at 12:19 am)MysticKnight Wrote: You can't exist outside of perception. Your body can, but you must generated in some perception. Most people think that perception is themselves, yet what is real is something else truly sees them as they are while they only have some fuzzy scent of who they are.
Oh I see where this is going. You're trying to say that things can only exist if they're perceived; that since we humans don't do the perceiving then there must be some powerful entity doing it; therefore "God". Right?
Basically, "to be is to be perceived", à la George Berkeley?
"There once was a man who said: "God
Must think it exceedingly odd
If he finds that this tree
Continues to be
When there's no one about in the Quad."
"Dear Sir,
Your astonishment's odd;
I am always about in the Quad;
And that's why the tree
Will continue to be,
Since observed by
Yours faithfully,
God."
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
