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I think about that sometimes. Then my head starts hurting, so I stop.jgallandt said:How do you know that at this moment in time, that you are not dreaming? That your not really reading this post, and that in reality, I don't exist? When you are dreaming, you are usually not aware of it being a dream....
Jensa said:If I am dreaming, I wonder how things will be when I wake up.
Solipsism can be entertaining, but that's about the extent of its instrumentality.jgallandt said:How do you know that at this moment in time, that you are not dreaming? That your not really reading this post, and that in reality, I don't exist? When you are dreaming, you are usually not aware of it being a dream....
That's presuming that you are not dreaming.... But if you are dreaming, then it becomes more then just 'entertaining', it becomes an un-reality.Flappycat said:Solipsism can be entertaining, but that's about the extent of its instrumentality.
That's funny. When I was a teenager, I used to tell my two best friends that I was dreaming and that they didn't really exist except in my mind. It about drove them nuts!jgallandt said:How do you know that at this moment in time, that you are not dreaming? That your not really reading this post, and that in reality, I don't exist? When you are dreaming, you are usually not aware of it being a dream....
Same, here, I think about it and then I drive myself crazy thinking about it.Aqualung said:I think about that sometimes. Then my head starts hurting, so I stop.
Unverifiable and not practically useful. Besides, I'm really something of a compulsive agnostic. I'm not really entirely sure that I exist at all, but, lacking anything else, I humor my senses and perception and just ride easy.jgallandt said:That's presuming that you are not dreaming.... But if you are dreaming, then it becomes more then just 'entertaining', it becomes an un-reality.
Why does it have to be useful? Why can't something just be fun to think about? And what does religion, or lack of have anything to do with it?Flappycat said:Unverifiable and not practically useful. Besides, I'm really something of a compulsive agnostic. I'm not really entirely sure that I exist at all, but, lacking anything else, I humor my senses and perception and just ride easy.
That's what I said.jgallandt said:Why does it have to be useful? Why can't something just be fun to think about?
Agnosticism has nothing directly to do with religion. I was using the word in its appropriate context. I was serious.And what does religion, or lack of have anything to do with it?
The post had nothing to with religion, or a lack of. Everyone else understood it for what it was... I think I must be dreaming.Flappycat said:That's what I said.
Agnosticism has nothing directly to do with religion. I was using the word in its appropriate context. I was serious.
hehehehehe, whenever i think like this, i sit and read descartes i know, im a nerd, but im a well-read nerd :biglaugh:jgallandt said:How do you know that at this moment in time, that you are not dreaming? That your not really reading this post, and that in reality, I don't exist? When you are dreaming, you are usually not aware of it being a dream....
Seyorni said:This is hardly a novel question. Half the world believes exactly this.That we are dreaming our world, that our reality is entirely subjective is the core belief underlying the "eastern" religions.
The goal of most Hindus or Buddhists is not an idealized afterdeath paradise, but to wake up.
The seemingly whimsical notion that we all may be dreaming is actually one of supreme philosophical import, as it constitutes the essential divide between the Eastern and Western religions.jgallandt said:There are 2 aspects to view this as. One, as everything is a dream, or, when you go so sleep, you sometimes dream, and are you dreaming right now in your bed?