[Life Story(Kinda)] Aliens

[Heat]

So when I was younger I had some pretty interesting ideas, and I wasn't planning on sharing them cause they're a bit nutty, but what the hell.

I didn't even intend to question religion when I was young, like not in the sense here where it's like I had an opinion on the subject, or wanted to disprove arguments.


However, I don't know where I got these views. Essentially around maybe 4-8 years old[hard be specific] I would often feel that Religion was bullshit, I mean I was forced to go to sunday school[It's not like I opposed going], I lived and grew up christian, never met anyone who wasn't religious.

However for some reason I just had a distrust for anything people told me. Not only did I believe religion was false, but I somehow in the back of my mind thought that all the adults were conspiring to get me to believe this. Furthermore, I always for the longest time, not that I shaped my life around it, but for the longest time imagined that when I died I would wake up only to discover that I was an Alien from another planet dreaming the entire time. I don't know if this conflicted, but as well I thought that every single person was a figment of my imagination and would only life their life and do things when I was going to witness, and that if I wasn't aware of what someone was doing they weren't actually doing anything or even a real person. I didn't live my life around that, but it was kind of one of those things like "Yeah that could be true".

Anyways, have any of you had any similar experiences?

[Alex K]

I didn't specifically go through a solipsistic alien phase, no...

[Heat]

I didn't specifically go through a solipsistic alien phase, no...

It was weird, if you caught on to my trouble explaining it, it's because I can't. It wasn't influenced by anything, because of anything, the only thing I can think of is maybe it was helped by movies I watched.


I wanted to make it clear, it's not like I valiantly believed this, more of just a pondering type thing?

[Cinjin]

However for some reason I just had a distrust for anything people told me. Not only did I believe religion was false, but I somehow in the back of my mind thought that all the adults were conspiring to get me to believe this. Furthermore, I always for the longest time, not that I shaped my life around it, but for the longest time imagined that when I died I would wake up only to discover that I was an Alien from another planet dreaming the entire time. I don't know if this conflicted, but as well I thought that every single person was a figment of my imagination and would only life their life and do things when I was going to witness, and that if I wasn't aware of what someone was doing they weren't actually doing anything or even a real person. I didn't live my life around that, but it was kind of one of those things like "Yeah that could be true".

I suppose its a little weird, but hey, no weirder than any messiahs walking around on water and coming back to life.

You run with what you want bro.   

[Heat]

However for some reason I just had a distrust for anything people told me. Not only did I believe religion was false, but I somehow in the back of my mind thought that all the adults were conspiring to get me to believe this. Furthermore, I always for the longest time, not that I shaped my life around it, but for the longest time imagined that when I died I would wake up only to discover that I was an Alien from another planet dreaming the entire time. I don't know if this conflicted, but as well I thought that every single person was a figment of my imagination and would only life their life and do things when I was going to witness, and that if I wasn't aware of what someone was doing they weren't actually doing anything or even a real person. I didn't live my life around that, but it was kind of one of those things like "Yeah that could be true".

I suppose its a little weird, but hey, no weirder than any messiahs walking around on water and coming back to life.

You run with what you want bro.   

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsism
I came across that a few weeks ago, and it's what got me reflecting.

Solipsism:
" is the philosophical idea that only one's own mind is sure to exist. As an epistemological position, solipsism holds that knowledgeof anything outside one's own mind is unsure; the external world and other minds cannot be known and might not exist outside the mind. As a  position, solipsism goes further to the conclusion that the world and other minds do not exist."

[ignoramus]

Someone arrest the OP! His matrix is glitching! He must not escape!

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Heat, you're a good sort, and I enjoy reading your posts. Not for nothing, but have you considered that you might be insane?

Boru

[Heat]

Heat, you're a good sort, and I enjoy reading your posts.  Not for nothing, but have you considered that you might be insane?

Boru

I prefer the term mentally handicapped thank you very much.