Comments on: Do I exist?

By: Sholeh

Sholeh — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 06:25:08 +0000

Mojan: Because I was multi-tasking hehe.

George: Yeah it gave me a little insight into that type of thinking, and no wonder people get so depressed when they get too far into it.

By: george

george — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 00:33:20 +0000

I know EXACTLY how earth-shattering that thought is. Consider yourself lucky that it only lasted a moment. Try dealing with it for years; you’ll quickly descend down that spiral that ‘Abdu’l-Baha is talking about in Dan’s comment.

Reza’s comment cracks me up. But I never got anywhere with Descartes. Or any other shoe-gazing philosopher.

By: +mojan.

+mojan. — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 14:10:53 +0000

Why WERE you giving one-syllable answers? That’s what I want to know.

By: dan jones

dan jones — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 22:43:43 +0000

The conception of annihilation is a factor in human degradation, a cause of human debasement and lowliness, a source of human fear and abjection. It has been conducive to the dispersion and weakening of human thought whereas the realization of existence and continuity has upraised man to sublimity of ideals, established the foundations of human progress and stimulated the development of heavenly virtues; therefore it behoves man to abandon thoughts of non-existence and death which are absolutely imaginary and see himself ever living, everlasting in the divine purpose of his creation. He must turn away from ideas which degrade the human soul, so that day by day and hour by hour he may advance upward and higher to spiritual perception of the continuity of the human reality. If he dwells upon the thought of non-existence he will become utterly incompetent; with weakened will-power his ambition for progress will be lessened and the acquisition of human virtues will cease.

‘Abdu’l-Baha, Baha’i World Faith – ‘Abdu’l-Baha Section, p. 265

By: Reza

Reza — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 19:05:05 +0000

A good follow-up to your experience of existential discombobulation would be Rene Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy.

You might want to stop sniffing glue as well.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 16:52:49 +0000

I hope you exist, or else you are a figment of a whole communities’ collective imagination, and the thought of collective imaginations just creeps me out.

By: Sholeh

Sholeh — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 06:11:30 +0000

whew. Thanks Lev.

By: Lev

Lev — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 01:25:34 +0000

I think maybe, “Yes, you Do exist, Sholeh.”