# None of you exist. It's just me. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 12, 2008, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/none-of-you-exist-its-just-me/456265 "2008-07-12T21:25:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2008, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/none-of-you-exist-its-just-me/456265/1 "2008-07-12T21:25:57Z")
But from your point of view. I am a thread designed to look like a person apparently having a revelation that all of what exists is in that which is called a ‘mind’ to trick you into thinking that you are not the only thing in the ‘world’ and there _are_ other people capable of thinking they are the only thing in the ‘world’. But maybe there _aren’t_. Maybe you, the person reading this thread, ARE the only person in the world and I am a fake, just a figment of your imagination. Or maybe not. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2008, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/none-of-you-exist-its-just-me/456265/2 "2008-07-12T21:28:11Z")
That’s exactly what I want you to think. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2008, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/none-of-you-exist-its-just-me/456265/3 "2008-07-12T21:29:42Z")
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic] That’s exactly what I want you to think. [/QUOTE] ‘Who’ are you? ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2008, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/none-of-you-exist-its-just-me/456265/4 "2008-07-12T21:37:47Z")
What is ‘who’? ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2008, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/none-of-you-exist-its-just-me/456265/5 "2008-07-12T21:39:05Z")
What is ‘is’? _poof_ What is ‘is’ and ‘what’ and ‘and’? ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2008, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/none-of-you-exist-its-just-me/456265/6 "2008-07-12T21:39:31Z")
I cannot conceive of a universe in which the existence of **Lobsang** is a natural phenomenon. Therefore God exists. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2008, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/none-of-you-exist-its-just-me/456265/7 "2008-07-12T21:40:50Z")
I am proof of God? That is certainly a brain bending idea to contemplate. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2008, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/none-of-you-exist-its-just-me/456265/8 "2008-07-12T21:56:29Z")
It’s called solipsism. I am now imagining that you have a have a dictionary and the inclination to use it. But my attention sometimes wanders, so maybe you won’t. Bit if I really wanted you to, you would. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2008, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/none-of-you-exist-its-just-me/456265/9 "2008-07-12T22:00:52Z")
There isn’t an entry for ‘solipsism’ in the Farger’s English-Manx Dictionary. > **[Solipsism Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com](https://www.dictionary.com/browse/solipsism)** > > Solipsism definition, the theory that only the self exists, or can be proved to exist. See more. I kinda always knew there was a word for it, and that solipsism is a word. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2008, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/none-of-you-exist-its-just-me/456265/10 "2008-07-12T22:07:30Z")
[_Dark Star_ - Bomb 20](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjGRySVyTDk). ‘How do you know you exist?’ [Bomb 20 decides](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_47mmt5SZY&NR=1). ‘The only thing that exists is myself.’ **(SPOILER!)** 😃 ---
**Author:** ![3acresandatruck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/e79b87/32.png) [@3acresandatruck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3acresandatruck)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2008, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/none-of-you-exist-its-just-me/456265/11 "2008-07-12T22:43:49Z")
[QUOTE=Johnny L.A.] [_Dark Star_ - Bomb 20](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjGRySVyTDk). ‘How do you know you exist?’ [/QUOTE] Excreto, ergo sum. ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2008, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/none-of-you-exist-its-just-me/456265/12 "2008-07-12T22:50:06Z")
[QUOTE=Lobsang] I am proof of God? That is certainly a brain bending idea to contemplate. [/QUOTE] Yes, it’s not quite how they told me it would be at Sunday School, but I understand that He moves in mysterious ways. I certainly didn’t anticipate that some guy from the Isle of Man posting on an internet message board would turn out to be proof of the existence of a realm eternal, but there you go. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2008, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/none-of-you-exist-its-just-me/456265/13 "2008-07-12T22:53:00Z")
[QUOTE=3acresandatruck] Excreto, ergo sum. [/QUOTE] Oh, come on! It’s great for a student film! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2008, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/none-of-you-exist-its-just-me/456265/14 "2008-07-12T22:54:23Z")
[QUOTE=Usram] He moves in mysterious ways. [/QUOTE] Perhaps He should eat more fiber? ---
**Author:** ![3acresandatruck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/e79b87/32.png) [@3acresandatruck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3acresandatruck)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2008, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/none-of-you-exist-its-just-me/456265/15 "2008-07-12T23:03:26Z")
[QUOTE=Johnny L.A.] Oh, come on! It’s great for a student film! [/QUOTE] I believe you misunderestimate my remarkification. I was attemptifying to establishicate my reality to Bomb 20. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2008, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/none-of-you-exist-its-just-me/456265/16 "2008-07-12T23:31:43Z")
[QUOTE=Lobsang] There isn’t an entry for ‘solipsism’ in the Farger’s English-Manx Dictionary. [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/solipsism](http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/solipsism) I kinda always knew there was a word for it, and that solipsism is a word. [/QUOTE] The fact that you looked up solipsism proves there is a God, and I am him. Watch, I’ll prove it. I command that you do something else! ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2008, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/none-of-you-exist-its-just-me/456265/17 "2008-07-12T23:36:16Z")
Lobsang, can you speak Manx? ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2008, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/none-of-you-exist-its-just-me/456265/18 "2008-07-12T23:47:52Z")
[QUOTE=An Gadaí] Lobsang, can you speak Manx? [/QUOTE] Not at all. I can say a handfull of manx words, but I am a ‘comeover’. Even people born here are unlikely to be able to speak manx. Only a few pensioners and some recorded museum voices can speak it. Many signs show manx. but signs are not people. Having said that, I would love to be able to speak manx. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2008, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/none-of-you-exist-its-just-me/456265/19 "2008-07-12T23:48:38Z")
[QUOTE=Lobsang] Not at all. I can say a hanfull of manx words, but I am a ‘comeover’. Even people born here are unlikely to be able to speak manx. Only a few pensioners and some recorded museum voices can speak it. Many signs show manx. but signs are not people. Having said that, I would love to be able to speak manx. [/QUOTE] Ah, you posted again. Yet more proof you don’t exist. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2008, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/none-of-you-exist-its-just-me/456265/20 "2008-07-13T00:01:44Z")
Many signs show Irish hereabouts but you’re more likely to hear Yoruba, Polish, Mandarin, or Russian on the streets of Dublin than Irish. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/none-of-you-exist-its-just-me/456265.md?page=2)