Re: An odd thought...
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Friday, May 2, 2003, at 12:05:02
An odd thought... posted by Wedge on Thursday, May 1, 2003, at 20:53:09:
> Ok, what if, in this world, no one exists but me. I live my life, and everyone else only "exists" when they come in contact with me. I can't see them when they're not around me. I can't hear them when they can't be heard by me. I can't feel them when they can't be touched by me. So, do they exist? >
In my senior year of high school, one of my classes had a lot of emphasis on philosophy, particularly that relating to human existence and the nature of reality. In one of the first classes, the teacher told us to prove that we weren't each a brain in a jar in a lab somewhere, being tricked into all our sensory impressions.
Nobody could do it, of course, and that managed to freak the class out pretty well. It ended up being a really fantastic class, and I learned a lot of stuff that was relevant to me in my college classes, but boy... that thought certainly did startle us all for a while.
Sosi"that teacher also ruled because he called a gang of the popular valley-girls the 'Wench Club'"qui
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