Is life worth living if it isn't real?
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Re: Is life worth living if it isn't real?Yes, cogito ergo sum. Doubt is the faculty of cognizance, but it's doubt in our understanding that's led to this tautology.(Original post by Vian)
For Question 1: I don't know how I'd react. I suppose I'd feel quite alone and empty if I was the only "real" being in the universe.
Question 2: In this situation, odds are that everyone else is also a "real" person that's hooked up to this universe, so it would change nothing. So what is this computer isn't real? The people I connect with and talk to are, and that's all that matters at the end of the day.
I advise to look into the following quote,"I think, therefore I am". Besides, You=/=World. -
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Re: Is life worth living if it isn't real?Is what's happening now important to you? Can you look beyond the electrical impulses and realize that it isn't what you're really seeing that matters - it's what you think you're seeing. The best thing in my life - my relationship with my boyfriend - is probably caused by chemicals released in the brain that make me feel happy when I see him and create a feeling of attraction towards him. That's what I'm really experiencing - but what I think I'm experiencing is something beautiful, it's the shiver he sends down my spine when he holds my hand and the butterflies I get when I look into his eyes. I don't care if it's all chemicals and electrical impulses, it's beautiful and it makes life worth living
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Re: Is life worth living if it isn't real?(Original post by rj1990)
Stop wasteing your time with this. People who think like this are people who end up losing the plot, and ending up 40 years old, singing out loud to themselves while walking down the street, you know the type of people I mean.
Chill, who cares if it is real or not. Look at all the things you can do.(Original post by siwelmail)
OP is one depressed SOB...
Why is it depressing to think that everything is not exactly as it seems? And why is it frowned upon to think differently about the world in which we exist? I am only postulating. It doesn't depress me, there's nothing depressing about it. It intrigues me to consider that all is not as it seems, as that is almost certainly so. I'm not going to lose the plot, because we write the plot every day and the plot is spun by the tellers of the story - our collective.
<---- not depressed.
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Re: Is life worth living if it isn't real?I'm just warning you that it isn't healthy to think like this. Because it can lead to depression, always questioning everything and our existence. Slowly but surely it will affect your mental health.(Original post by Harolinho)
Why is it depressing to think that everything is not exactly as it seems? And why is it frowned upon to think differently about the world in which we exist? I am only postulating. It doesn't depress me, there's nothing depressing about it. It intrigues me to consider that all is not as it seems, as that is almost certainly so. I'm not going to lose the plot, because we write the plot every day and the plot is spun by the tellers of the story - our collective.
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Re: Is life worth living if it isn't real?I'm not a crack head, I'm not going to live in delusion because I'm afraid of free thinking. The idea that thinking of the nature of existance leads to poor mental health is an assertion. 'Mental Health' - so it is mentally healthy to not think of things that aren't nice and to smile dumbly than it is to consider everything?(Original post by rj1990)
I'm just warning you that it isn't healthy to think like this. Because it can lead to depression, always questioning everything and our existence. Slowly but surely it will affect your mental health.
Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding.
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Re: Is life worth living if it isn't real?All you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be! (Different song, still fits the theme)(Original post by Pitt1988)
Long time dead and you'll find out when you die. In the mean time, shine on you crazy diamond! -
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Re: Is life worth living if it isn't real?Go and take some magic mushrooms, and then you'll see life in 500 different ways in the space of an hour, then you won't have a ******* clue what life is about. So, there is just no point.(Original post by Harolinho)
I'm not a crack head, I'm not going to live in delusion because I'm afraid of free thinking. The idea that thinking of the nature of existance leads to poor mental health is an assertion. 'Mental Health' - so it is mentally healthy to not think of things that aren't nice and to smile dumbly than it is to consider everything?
Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding.
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Re: Is life worth living if it isn't real?what does yolo mean?(Original post by Nistar)
I knew that would be in the spoiler before I even clicked it... -
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Re: Is life worth living if it isn't real?What? What on earth are you banging on about now. 'It's possible to consider life in different ways therefore we should only consider it in one way!'. You don't understand the importance of skepticism. It's not like I sit in a chair ten hours a day screaming in floods to the sky asking why we may or may not exist as we appear. I just like to consider things, and quite frankly whether or not you think skeptical consideration has a point, then try and find a purpose in anything that is not autonomous anyway.(Original post by rj1990)
Go and take some magic mushrooms, and then you'll see life in 500 different ways in the space of an hour, then you won't have a ******* clue what life is about. So, there is just no point. -
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Re: Is life worth living if it isn't real?Not too sure if you're being serious or not?(Original post by undertaker1)
what does yolo mean?
Regardless, it stands for 'you only live once'. -
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Re: Is life worth living if it isn't real?Ive tried to argue this point before... That I became so nihilistic that my nihilism turned in on itself but no one got me(Original post by Above.The.Empyrean)
Because if the world doesn't exist, then neither do you. Ergo, your opinion has no significance, as it doesn't exist.
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Re: Is life worth living if it isn't real?O_O Are you a wizard?(Original post by Nistar)
I knew that would be in the spoiler before I even clicked it... -
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Re: Is life worth living if it isn't real?I suppose I am, yeah, when you put it like that.(Original post by BSc.Pro.Logic)
O_O Are you a wizard?
