Never
Come What May
- Joined
- Jun 20, 2000
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Bare with me here.
My threads tend to bomb quickly unless I'm talking about how wonderful I am or it becomes one of the many battlegrounds of the board.
Unfortunately, I've reached my weekly limit of 'I am the best' threads and there are quite a few healthy fights going on right now so I have to pick something else.
I can't do that tonight so I'm going to steal ponies.
"We are all aware that the sense can be deceived, the eyes fooled. But how can we be sure our senses are not being deceived at any particular time, or even all the time? Might I just be a brain in a tank somewhere, tricked all my life into believing in the events of this world by some insane computer? And does my life gain or lose meaning based on my reaction to such solipsism?" ---
Project PYRRHO, Specimen 46, Vat 7
Activity Record M.Y. 2302.22467
Termination of Specimen Advised.
What gives your life meaning? What drives you to get up in the morning? Work, play, love, hate? And if that was taken away from you. If all you fought for and against, life itself even, turned out to be an illusion. A dream perhaps (someone else's), a test, it doesn't matter what the reality is but what you thought to be true was false. Everyone takes life on faith, to constantly question reality, whether we are even truly here or not would drive up mad.
We all define ourselves by what we do, what we are, what we feel, who we know. Remove those things and there's little left. You define yourself as a women, it turns out you are genderless. You define yourself as a parent; your children are figments of your manipulated imagination. You think of yourself as a student, yet everything you have learned is a lie. There is no Earth - the sky is not blue - no Asia - no ocean - no humanity as well.
How would you react? What would you still believe in? More importantly, would that make me right?
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My threads tend to bomb quickly unless I'm talking about how wonderful I am or it becomes one of the many battlegrounds of the board.
Unfortunately, I've reached my weekly limit of 'I am the best' threads and there are quite a few healthy fights going on right now so I have to pick something else.
I can't do that tonight so I'm going to steal ponies.
"We are all aware that the sense can be deceived, the eyes fooled. But how can we be sure our senses are not being deceived at any particular time, or even all the time? Might I just be a brain in a tank somewhere, tricked all my life into believing in the events of this world by some insane computer? And does my life gain or lose meaning based on my reaction to such solipsism?" ---
Project PYRRHO, Specimen 46, Vat 7
Activity Record M.Y. 2302.22467
Termination of Specimen Advised.
What gives your life meaning? What drives you to get up in the morning? Work, play, love, hate? And if that was taken away from you. If all you fought for and against, life itself even, turned out to be an illusion. A dream perhaps (someone else's), a test, it doesn't matter what the reality is but what you thought to be true was false. Everyone takes life on faith, to constantly question reality, whether we are even truly here or not would drive up mad.
We all define ourselves by what we do, what we are, what we feel, who we know. Remove those things and there's little left. You define yourself as a women, it turns out you are genderless. You define yourself as a parent; your children are figments of your manipulated imagination. You think of yourself as a student, yet everything you have learned is a lie. There is no Earth - the sky is not blue - no Asia - no ocean - no humanity as well.
How would you react? What would you still believe in? More importantly, would that make me right?
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