Anyone ever wonder weather the world is real. I mean what if we’re in a giant video-game or dream. What if reality isn’t realy reality but a simulation of our own hopes and dreams (and on a subconcious level) an amount of hurt you realy want to happen to you. Shure people are unpredictable, but what if it’s because you want them to be. Reply if you feel the same or have another opinion about it.
David B., Gaudere? You may wish to send this one over to IMHO. My pal is a newbie and is learning the ropes.
Thanks,
Chris
I’ve wondered who wrote the book of love.
Not only do I wonder, I wa-wa-wa-wa-wonder.
I usually wonder as I wander. But that’s me.
Besides, all of you are merely figments of my imagination, anyway.
Quote:
I wa-wa-wa-wa-wonder.
When I come to see, My little run-a-way.
My run,run,run,run-a-way.
Great song but anything you ever wonder about?
Nope. Never wondered. But it is a valid question, because when I’m dreaming I’ve never wondered either.
Sometimes I wonder if reality could be a figment of my imagination. I don’t really believe it is, but I still tend to think about it if I am deprived of sleep.
As a matter of fact, I started scaring myself Tuesday morning. It was really foggy. There was less than 1/4 mile visibility. As I was driving along, I kept thinking to myself, “What if the world never really exists if I’m not there making it up? Maybe everyhthing disappears as it leaves my line of sight. Maybe it’s so foggy today because I’m so tired that I can’t make up the world fast enough.” I made the mistake of sharing this with my friend, and she was sufficiently creeped out. Not by the thought, but by the fact that I think such weird things. Oh well, that’s what happens when you are only able to sleep for two hours.
There is no spoon.
Damn, piney (can I call you piney?) I was getting set to type that when I hit refresh…
If piney is offensive, you can hit me at the ChiDope Shindig 
[\stoner speak]
dude, you just blew my mind. i mean, what if, like, our ENTIRE universe was just like,…one ATOM in the fingernail of a giant, and HIS universe was just an atom in hte fingernail of a BIGGER giant. dude, even weirder…i could have destroyed like, a thousand universes by showering this morning. dude.
[end stoner speak
chris
[Pythons]
Rene Descartes
Was a drunken old fart.
“I drink, therefore I am!.”
[/Pythons]
But there are spoon millionaires…
I didn’t tell you to post this. My mouse must be broken.
I briefly wondered this once, and I came to a few conclusions:
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[li]Reality does not ‘go away’ just because you want it to. I can define away a pin, make it part of my philosophy that pins aren’t real, and still feel pain when a pin pricks me.[/li][li]You have to accept enough of the world to get along. Not to do so is suicide. Look at the delusional if you don’t believe me: They exist in a mental world so different from the physical world they can get harmed and harm others when their mental world runs headlong into the physical world. Fact: Even if the Martians said you can fly, if you jump off the observation deck of the Empire State Building you will die.[/li][li]Long internal ‘philosophical crises’ like these don’t accomplish much if you try to rule out your own existence. Accepting your own existence is axiomatic. If you don’t exist, who’s asking all the questions?[/li][li]Even if we are a simulation running on some long-forgotten computer in a university basement, nothing changes. We still are, our universe as we know it still is, and I can still eat pancakes with maple syrup on Saturdays.[/li][/ul]
If you have found any flaws with these statements, please point them out. I’m eager to debate on a philosophical/metaphysical level. So is Liberatarian, I’m sure, when he shows up.
If we are some simulation running on a forgotten computor in a basement then I vote that we hijack the one in the kids bedroom with the latest version of Sim Universe on it.
It just has to have fewer bugs than this version.
What if the letters “D” - “O” - “G” really spelled “cat?”
Whoah, that’s heavy, man.
I tend to think we are in a simulation of a real universe. For one thing, lots of natural laws appear at first to be simple and elegant, but on a very small scale a lot of seemingly random factors seem to be tweaked to make the laws so. Anyone who knows how much programming goes into simulating real-world physics in computer games will find that very familiar. Also, everything is quantized on a smaller level. An object on a computer screen that appears to be moving smoothly turns out to be a number of smaller elements hopping between regularly spaced pixels if you get close enough to it. An object in real-life that appears to be moving smoothly turns out to be a number of smaller particles hopping between regularly spaced quantum intervals. The maximum resolution of our simulation is high, but we are able to get close enough to see the pixilation.