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Re: solipsism
Posted By: Oeras, on host 204.17.51.93
Date: Thursday, May 17, 2001, at 19:11:36
In Reply To: Re: solipsism posted by Faux Pas on Thursday, May 17, 2001, at 06:54:59:

> When I was much younger, I thought that I could be dreaming what we perceive to be real life. All of these people I know are just dream-stuff. You, reading this, don't really have any thoughts of your own, you just think you have memories; these are memories I have given to you. Singapore doesn't exist except in magazine articles and those only exist when I read them. When I came in to work this morning, I took an elevator. Right now I can't see it, therefore I cannot be certain that it exists.
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> One of my friends said he used to think the same way, except instead of dream-stuff, we were all holograms.
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> -Faux "This message does not really exist. You're making it up as you read it." Pas

That was how I thought for a long while. Of course, I'm probably a lot younger than you, too. Sometimes when things seem to work out just so, it seems somebody/thing is controling the dream/hologram. But this cannot be verified, which is major suck.

Oe"'I do not know if I was a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or if I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.' or somesuch"ras

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