Can’t do it? Mwuhahahahaha!
See, as far as I know, you all could be figments of my imagination! Ha! What would you if it was true? Hehehe…I’ll be less crazy now…
<<Twhack!>>
Ouch!
Yep, I’m real. (Whew! For a minute there you had me scared!)
What’s so bad about being a figment? It seems easy enough, and that’s what I always look for.
Argeable: Prove yours! Then maybe I’ll respond. After all, you might be a figment, your perception of existence only an illusion.
~~Baloo
I don’t know…in my case it’s always been a sort of “I think not therefor I am not.”
Or not.
Since you didn’t post this in Great Debates, I am assuming you don’t want an argument. So you just must have needed to get that observation off your chest. Hope you feel better now.
Maybe we’re all figments of the imagination of a higher power. . . maybe all our memories are fake, part of a great dream. . . maybe all our thoughts, our feelings, our emotions are meaningless. . . maybe one day, the great dreamer will wake up, and we will simply cease to exist. . . I don’t want to think about this anymore, it’s such a scary thought. :eek:
I’m pink , therefore I’m spam . 
The U.S. Government sends me money twice a month. Therefore, I must exist to them, which is good enough for me.
I think, therefore I am.
My wife is real. So are the kids (2 and almost 1)
Everyone else is open to debate.
It’s know that I’m real. It’s the rest of you that I have to wonder about.
Cogito Eggo Sum.
I think, therefore I am a waffle.
The IRS knows me…
Drat, *Dogsbody beat me to the best line I could come up with, then Euty topped it.
Wait a minute…whooooo, the lights, the colors; if I don’t exist then that means no one will notice if I don’t drag myself into work tomorrow! It won’t matter, because I’ve never really been there anyway!
Oh. Girlbysea has a point. The IRS has imagined me, so the whole scam is blown.
Sigh.
Veb
I’m half-seriously of the opinion that most people aren’t real. Physically real, sure, but I think that most people aren’t much more than automatons.
This doesn’t apply to areas like the SDMB, where people wouldn’t participate if they didn’t think and have at least some curiousity.
But think about the last time you were at the grocery store. Do you really believe that any of the people there (customer or employee) had ever thought about anything more significant than which flavor of hamburger helper to fix for dinner?
Most people aren’t real. And the world, if not being better off without them, certainly wouldn’t miss them much.
Does holding this opinion make me a bad person? Just curious, I don’t think I’ll change it either way.
I think that I can prove to any given person that I’m not a figment of that particular person’s imagination. Search through my old posts, and see if you learn anything from reading what I say. If so, then that’s pretty strong evidence that I’m not a figment, because how could you figment teach you something that you didn’t already know? Presumably, you could also turn this argument around on me,and prove your existence.
Ah, but Chronos…if you are a figment of my imagination then perhaps what I ‘learned’ from you was nothing more than a sub-conscious development of my own, something I learned or thought of myself but suppressed it from my conscious mind. Then my sub-conscious mind used my imaginary perception of you to bring it to my attention.
More interestingly: Not only can’t I prove to you that I’m not a figment of your imagination, you can’t prove that I AM a figment of your imagination. And if in reality I am just a figment, but neither you nor I can prove it one way or the other, does it really matter? From your point of view, a figment that can’t be disproved is just as valid as the real thing.
Me, too. And ask VISA, we’re on a first name basis!!
MIPSIMS : where we put the fun back in dysfunctional.
The IRS thought they knew me, but it turns out they had me confused with someone who owes them money. As a matter of fact, they were confused enough to take the money out of my check. I had no idea they could do that. They admitted it was their mistake, and they even offered to pay interest on it, but the trouble is nobody can find the money. When it left my check, it ceased to exist. Payroll claims it went to IRS. IRS claims they never got it. I’m a bit off the subject now … I’m not sure if I’m a figment, but it seems my money is.