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RE: How can we be sure this is reality?
February 22, 2013 at 1:45 pm
(February 21, 2013 at 5:55 am)cato123 Wrote: (February 20, 2013 at 7:51 pm)junkyardboy Wrote: [atheists will just invent something else, just as they did when spontaneous generation got kicked to the curb
Your stupid ass forgot to mention what it was that atheists invented when spontaneous generation got kicked to the curb.
and thats why you built the altar of abiogenesis.
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RE: How can we be sure this is reality?
February 22, 2013 at 1:57 pm
Who built what? Sorry bud, the religious and their ilk already had the idea of abiogenesis cooked up, they just got the details wrong. Try again.
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RE: How can we be sure this is reality?
February 27, 2013 at 10:45 pm
(February 14, 2013 at 2:00 pm)Phish Wrote: -is there any way we can prove that we aren't just sleeping and when we die we wake up.
-our entire universe could be a gigantic brain cell!
- how to be sure im not just imagining all this and all of things in this world are just part of my imagination?
and how do you go on living,such questions totally screwed me up You cannot be sure of anything but one thing: that something exists. If you think, if I think, then something exists. If when we die we wake up, then get Cryogenized. You will be able to prove/disprove the existence of god, tell people what it's like to die, and answer your own damn question. To know this crap, you have to die. lol 
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RE: How can we be sure this is reality?
February 28, 2013 at 1:21 pm
(February 27, 2013 at 10:45 pm)Severan Wrote: (February 14, 2013 at 2:00 pm)Phish Wrote: -is there any way we can prove that we aren't just sleeping and when we die we wake up.
-our entire universe could be a gigantic brain cell!
- how to be sure im not just imagining all this and all of things in this world are just part of my imagination?
and how do you go on living,such questions totally screwed me up You cannot be sure of anything but one thing: that something exists. If you think, if I think, then something exists. If when we die we wake up, then get Cryogenized. You will be able to prove/disprove the existence of god, tell people what it's like to die, and answer your own damn question. To know this crap, you have to die. lol
are you sure you even exist?
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RE: How can we be sure this is reality?
February 28, 2013 at 2:10 pm
(February 28, 2013 at 1:21 pm)junkyardboy Wrote: (February 27, 2013 at 10:45 pm)Severan Wrote: You cannot be sure of anything but one thing: that something exists. If you think, if I think, then something exists. If when we die we wake up, then get Cryogenized. You will be able to prove/disprove the existence of god, tell people what it's like to die, and answer your own damn question. To know this crap, you have to die. lol
are you sure you even exist?
Are you sure  and  exists? I know that something exists, not necessarily me, but...
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RE: How can we be sure this is reality?
February 28, 2013 at 7:06 pm
Cogito ergo sum, people. It really is simple. If you are thinking, you exist. You may not be what you envision yourself to be. Fuck, you could be the matrix. The point is, the fact that you are able to wonder about it means that you exist in the way that we define the term "exist." Of course, you could redefine the word to suit the argument. Why not? It's popular. However, you cannot change the fact that your thoughts are the premise for the conclusion of your existence. Yes, you do have to assume that only things that exist have the ability to think (of course, the opposite is not true), but that is definitely self-evident. Carry on.
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RE: How can we be sure this is reality?
March 4, 2013 at 2:30 am
You know... it's simpler than that. If a thing is brown, that thing exists... even if it's all in your head. You must also exist, however your form. Really, if we can describe a thing, we've already asserted that said thing exists.
Everything exists. Nothing exists. Something or three exists too.
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RE: How can we be sure this is reality?
March 5, 2013 at 12:59 am
Descartes said "I think therefore I am" and answered the problem of a demon entering information into his mind with "God is not a deceiver".
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RE: How can we be sure this is reality?
April 3, 2013 at 11:33 am
(February 28, 2013 at 7:06 pm)Shell B Wrote: Cogito ergo sum, people. It really is simple. If you are thinking, you exist. You may not be what you envision yourself to be. Fuck, you could be the matrix. The point is, the fact that you are able to wonder about it means that you exist in the way that we define the term "exist." Of course, you could redefine the word to suit the argument. Why not? It's popular. However, you cannot change the fact that your thoughts are the premise for the conclusion of your existence. Yes, you do have to assume that only things that exist have the ability to think (of course, the opposite is not true), but that is definitely self-evident. Carry on.
wow
maybe a brain in a box for eternity?
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RE: How can we be sure this is reality?
April 3, 2013 at 11:35 am
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(March 5, 2013 at 12:59 am)jstrodel Wrote: Descartes said "I think therefore I am" and answered the problem of a demon entering information into his mind with "God is not a deceiver". I can answer the same problem with -waffles- and it will be just as compelling, for precisely the same reason. Which is to say - not at all.
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