I'm having an existential crisis

[Captain_Nick]

I'm not sure that I exist

No, I'm not sure that there's any difference between 'existing' and 'not existing' in the first place.

Is it possible to think without words?

What is meaning?

What is?

HELP!!!!!

 

[M'Sharak]

The ending to Twain's The Mysterious Stranger? I liked his version better.

 

[scotpens]

I'm not sure that I exist

You don’t exist. You’re a figment of my imagination.

Next question?

 

[Nowhere Man]

If you can imagine it, then it exists, even if it is only in your mind or someone elses. So, you exist, it's cool.

 

[sojourner]

You don't exist/ This is all a dream of Think's.

 

[scotpens]

Let’s not put Descartes before the horse.

(Hey, someone had to say it.)

 

[Gaith]

 

[Australis]

You're a figment of your own imagination.

As are we all.

 

[Admiral Shran]

To be or not to be, that is the question.

Sometimes I chose not to be.

 

[Kommander]

Basic Cartesian Philosophy!

I use Descartes' Method of Doubt as a first step in examining and constructing my own beliefs. However, I've probably (read: definitely) bastardized it considerably. Early on in my existential musings, I determined that everything can be doubted, even existence itself.

Descartes determined that he existed because he can think. I'm not so sure. What if I've only deluded myself into believing that I can think and that I exist? There's no way to know for sure.

However, there seem to be patterns and consistencies in what I perceive as reality; certain things happen and other things don't happen. Given these patterns, it seems likely that I do exist. I'm not certain, but I'll assume that existence is real for the time being, because I have nothing else to go on. So, if reality is real, then I exist.

Therefore "I think, therefore I am" becomes "it seems as though I exist, therefore I probably exist. If I do not exist, I have no way of knowing, so I might as well keep pretending because I don't know what else to do."

You are not me, so things may be different for you.

It's about Goddamned time Lil Jon is recognized as the brilliant philosopher he is.

 

[Holdfast]

I'm not sure that I exist.

I'm sure you don't.

Crisis Over.

 

[scotpens]

Clinton:
"What is is?"

 

[JarodRussell]

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vr3V_VcHwA[/yt]

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

I'm not sure that I exist.

You are that which asks the question.

This isn't really scary, if you decide to follow where it leads. It can be liberating in essential ways. It's very nearly the opposite of solipsism, except that it can't actually be the opposite of anything.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

"I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," says Man, "The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED."
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanished in a puff of logic.
"Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.

 

[JarodRussell]

Universe wastes billions of years to produce creatures asking themselves if they really exist. Geez...

 

[RJDiogenes]

Cogito ergo es. You're welcome.

 

[RandyS]

None of you exists. You're all figments of my demented bad dreams.

No more 9pm pizza for me.....

Hell, I don't even exist......

 

[LitmusDragon]

What is mind?

No matter.

What is matter?

Never mind.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

"Nothing unreal exists." - Kiri-Kin-Tha

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Descartes walks into a bar and orders a beer. He finishes it, and the barman asks him if he wants another one. Descarts says "I think not." Then he disappears.