Can we prove our existance? that we are not simply someones imagination? or simply a dream?
Can we prove that this life is currently not the afterlife?
What if life kept repeating itself but simply you are not able to remember? You keep repeating this life of yours after you die the world just jumps back and you simply are born in the same person and same life again.
We are living in a video game, a high advance video game. (similar to sims 2).
When we die our souls remain in our bodies, trapped forever and we are doomed to live an eternity in our coffins, our bodies will die but not the soul, however the soul remains in the rotting bodies.
Just some theories i'd like to see people try to prove wrong.
2006-08-15 22:40:32 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Hmm. I have no beef with these trippy theories.
Actually the afterlife or soul ones I do have a problem with, because I don't believe in those things.
I'm feeling pretty tired right now. Do I really have to prove that souls/afterlife don't exist? That would take a long time. Can I just say that there is no evidence for these things (or, at least, they are not verifiable)?
In general, these types of trippy theories suffer from unverifiability. In other words, there is nothing we could possibly observe/know that could "verify" (offer evidence either for or against) these theories.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verifiability_theory_of_meaning
2006-08-15 23:24:19 · answer #1 · answered by Jon 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
-imaginations and dreams exist to the person having them so we exist.
-life, afterlife we are still living so either way, it's life.
-i see no problem with life repeating, it doesn't necessarily give us a chance to change our mistakes so i don't see the point of repeating life, but i don't mind it. as long as i'm not fungus.
-that is called religion and God is the one playing the game.
-well that sucks, souls in a box. can you really trap souls in a box? is it made of some impenetrable mettle that souls can't go through?
2006-08-20 02:01:26 · answer #2 · answered by Regine R 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not so much a matter of proving anything wrong...it is just what you are willing to accept and what you are willing to believe. The Truth is there, but we must find it for ourselves, and we must accept it. I don't agree with the said 'theories' that you gave. I believe that our spirits lived before we came to this earth, where we came to gain our physical bodies. I believe after this life that there will come a resurrection where our bodies and our spirits will reuinte, perfected in the atonement of Christ. This is merely what I believe. No one has to comment on this. It's up to you to find what you believe, not for anyone to prove anything. (Though I do know you are probably putting the questions out there for the heck of it...don't worry I am not taking it personally. I only answered seriously, just in case you were serious.)
2006-08-16 05:49:28 · answer #3 · answered by Becca 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't your Sims exist? Doesn't imagination exist? Don't characters in books, movies, stories, exist in some way? I think they do, or else we couldn't talk about them.
It's a useless question, anyway. We THINK that we exist, right? It FEELS as if we exist, to ourselves and to others around us. So even if somebody told you that we all didn't exist and we were just in somebody else's imagination, you wouldn't feel any different about it, or be able to change anything about it. You would just have to go on living as you do now.
2006-08-16 06:18:10 · answer #4 · answered by lindavankerkhof 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I figured our existence more like a big test tube in a lab (Biosphere) if you will. Everyday someone balances things out in our world, the next day it's all out of whack, and the lab person puts us back in balance again, then at coffee break, someone says to the lab person "Why do you waste you're time with these Human's, you know the outcome, they just destroy their world", the lab guy says "Yea, I know but, they were my mom's pet's so I have to take care of them"...... Mom Is mother Nature !
2006-08-16 05:52:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If god is the creater of everything who is the creater of god. Did we really land on the moon. If we took everything out of the ocean would the earth still be 75 percent water. There just theories
2006-08-16 05:45:10 · answer #6 · answered by pazz 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Faith is the only true answer to any of these. Faith can be seen in people all over for proof of it. With faith the answers to these questions (whatever they may be) need never be feared. Whether faith is right or wrong it can still be a powerfull answer.
2006-08-16 08:51:23 · answer #7 · answered by Rick 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋