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How can we be sure this is reality?

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How can we be sure this is reality?
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RE: How can we be sure this is reality?
April 3, 2013 at 11:37 am
(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".

descartes was wrong
"For this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false,"
"This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.
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RE: How can we be sure this is reality?
April 3, 2013 at 11:41 am
More accurately both the verse provided and the contention that god is not a deceiver are equally incorrect..lol.
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RE: How can we be sure this is reality?
April 5, 2013 at 11:56 am
(February 14, 2013 at 2:00 pm)Phish Wrote: -[b]is there any way we can prove that we aren't just sleeping and when we die we wake up[/b].

-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

wait for the bombs to drop and see if you get rolled up in the mess
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RE: How can we be sure this is reality?
April 5, 2013 at 12:05 pm
(April 3, 2013 at 11:33 am)junkyardboy Wrote: wow
maybe a brain in a box for eternity?

You are a brain in a box. But don't worry, eventually you're going to die.

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Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
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