i love philosophy but the theory of solipsism is the one that keeps me up at night. as i have bad anxiety issues and consider solipsism to be a possibility. unless i see some theories against it. PLEASE HELP!!!!!
but try to answer in a way that would seem that it NOT what an illusion would say. the illusion being you
2007-02-05 19:34:38 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Well, if solipsism is so, then you're god. I don't believe for a second that you're god, and if you were, then what am I praying for right this moment? If you don't know, then solipsism isn't truth. If I were an extension of you, you'd Know what I pray for, and you don't. Do you hear the blighted prayers of the masses? Do you hear the pleas for help and release? Do you know what I pray for?
Solopsism assumes that you are all, and that would make you God. You aren't. Go to sleep.
2007-02-05 20:07:54 · answer #1 · answered by Theresa A 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If I am an illusion then how are my paintings hanging in several different homes & galleries? How are my songs being played on the radio? How was I on the front page of the newspaper? You & I have never met. If you created me (or vice versa) wouldn't we have to know something about each other. You don't exist to me nor I to you other than you asking a question & my answering. An illusion wouldn't be able to answer your question. I am the star of my life & you are barely an extra. Just as you are the star of your life & you think that I & others in this forum are extras.
The world does not revolve around you. You are not creating this. You need to get some rest! Sleep deprivation & thinking too much will drive you crazy. You need to relax. Stop looking inward so much. Try to focus on the outside world. It is real.
It's 4:44 a.m. where I am as I type this from work (I'm on nightshift). You don't know where I work or what I do. I have a unique, complex & interesting life that you don't know about. No matter how creative you may be you could not conceive of an illusion as intricate as me. There are roughly 7 billion (8 billion? I don't know what we're at now...) people in the world. Do you really think that they're all illusions except for you? Just because you see the world from your own perspective it doesn't make it the only perspective. We all see life the same way from our own perspectives. Maybe you are my illusion. But I know that you are not or you could not be typing a real question that i could answer here.
Stop thinking so much. Have a rest. Tomorrow take a walk & take a look at the beautiful world we live in (which you are not imagining & which you did not create.) Talk to people. Shift your focus outside of yourself. You are obviously navel-gazing too much if you find solipsism a convincing theory!
Take care!
:)
2007-02-05 20:50:33 · answer #2 · answered by amp 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps try the following.
If solipsism sais that everything is only an illusion made in your head then make your head free. Free from all thoughts. Try it and if thoughts come push them away and then wait if there is not something else coming from another place then your brain and head. Something alive coming from inside from your solar plexus not starting in your head.
So free yourself from all thoughts and be patient as now you seem to be so wrapped up in your thoughts so this could take a while and then patiently wait what happens and what is there besides your brain.
2007-02-05 23:14:17 · answer #3 · answered by I love you too! 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you at the instantaneous are not the centre of the universe. a lot of people have self assurance that they are yet with all the billions of people contained in the international, they could't all be proper! we are all the celebs in our personal lives, yet we are in hardship-free words major or minor characters or extras contained in the lives of others. & maximum individuals do not even understand that we exist. you at the instantaneous are not growing the international and the individuals in it. you're perceiving a shared reality. the reality interior your ideas is unique to you regardless of the indisputable fact that the international that you spot outside, others see besides. you at the instantaneous are not growing it & you at the instantaneous are not growing them. The data is in case you talk with them they have lives self sufficient of you. relax. you opt on to resign overanalyzing & specializing in your self a lot. This creates pressure. attempt to shift your concentration to the outer international. Take a walk outside. Get on the fringe of nature. talk with different people. i don't understand you & don't understand something about you aside out of your question. you may not be the centre of the universe because i do not even understand you! I exist independently of you. i'm the centre of my personal existence yet i understand that the international would not revolve round me. i'm far too complicated & unique someone to be a fabricated out of your mind's eye. purely as you at the instantaneous are not a fabricated from my mind's eye. there is this style of element as questioning too a lot! you may force your self loopy! relax! flow to sleep. Sleep deprivation can play tricks on your ideas too. you commence hallucinating and each thing. solid success! I continuously loved Sylvia Plath's poem "Soliloquy of the Solipsist". i imagine many individuals faster or later sense that we are growing the international & that all of it revolves round us yet it truly is purely an phantasm that comes from specializing on your human being existence, emotions, issues & questioning that you're the completed universe & each thing round you is secondary...it really is not the case. you're purely a small (yet nonethless helpful) area of a huge planet in a tremendous galaxy in a countless universe. What are the opportunities that you're on the centre of all of it?!
2016-12-03 19:09:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read this website, it should help.
http://www.humantruth.info/solipsism.html
2007-02-05 19:50:37 · answer #5 · answered by tony c 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋