do i exist

how can we be sure we exist?

Im not sure if we do reality is impossible if you think about it if we do exist then I belive nothing is impossible

k..so this is hollow existence of mine has been no more than a trivial nothing existence_this is just a hollographic projection....my dreamland had always seemed more solid : a virtual matrixistic universe_an eternity of rotten despair

lovely hella314, simply lovely. love ur writin.

the last was me.

oooh! than you should check into the 'poetry forum' more often

I've asked myself the same unbelievably interesting question caconway and my answer is "I have absolutely no idea". Such a freaking awesome question. The coolest one ever.

i thought about this a lot when i was a teenager and decided that i didn't exist. none of us do. we just go though the motions of things. We should be able to exist though. but i don't know how to do that.

You have Zen, the best wine in China, and you have already finished three cups; yet you still say they did not even wet your lips.

caconway wrote:how can we be sure we exist?

You can't. The unfortunate fact of the matter is that all emperical evidence points to you being little more than a peculiar accumulation of quarks, or molecules, and that you, as you know yourself, will have a very brief and cosmically insignificant (though really, what isn't, in the great scheme of things) existence in this universe. If you're looking for substantiative affirmation of your physical or spiritual impermanence you might have difficulty finding it.

However, just because you might not really exist doesn't mean that you can't take some satisfaction in your experiences. Anyone who has played a video game knows that ficticious, temporary "realities" can be extremely entertaining, even if they mean absolutely nothing.