how can i learn not to be so anxious and depressed ver the theory of solipsism???

Question

to me it is the most disturbing. so are there any refutations that will ease my mind?

yes there ARE refutations against it. MANY actualy but i always forget what they are

Answer 1

There are not. You have to except the fact that solipsism may very well be absolutely true. You will never know for sure either way, so you will just have to learn to let it go.

Answer 2

Here are my 2 main arguments:

Argument#1:
If you jumped to the conclusion that nothing outside your mind exists and you might as well end everything because everything will disappear anyway because it's all just imaginary content in your head, you could probably be very, very, very wrong about your assessment. From my point of view, you would DEFINITELY be wrong. Because after you were gone, all your loved ones would probably still be here missing you very much, and I'd see that - even though you and your mind would probably be "gone" from your point of view. Our Existence would continue without your Mind - which would prove that you were wrong about your assumption! Too late after the fact, however.

Argument #2: Mind vs Reality Experiment
#2) If you try this Mind experiment, you will usually get the same results: Lock anybody in a windowless, lightless, empty, black walled room, strap their arms and legs together, put a sling around their waist and suspend them with ropes from the ceiling (to avoid physical sensation). Then close the door and leave them there for a long period of time. Basically, leave that person 100% alone with their Mind, to duplicate the fact that existence is not real. What do you think would happen? What if that person were you? Can you imagine?

You'd go crazy, and so would practically everybody else. Eventually you'd start screaming, begging to be let out, feeling hungry, literally pissing in your pants, and missing all those people you know and care about, but didn't really believe existed before. Maybe you would wish you were dead, but you couldn't do that either.

But no, don't worry, all you have to say to yourself is, it's all in your mind! Nothing exists! It's all in your imagination! The only that exists is the content of your Mind!

Yeah, right. I challenge any "believer" in solipsism to try this experiment and see how long they can continue to maintain this proposition that nothing exists outside their mind, and that reality doesn't exist. After a few hours, they will be begging for that outer reality!

Conclusion: The Mind requires an outside context (reality) for it to have any awareness of itself and its own existence. Simply put, the Mind depends on outer existence for it to know itself, and to know that itself exists! If this is true, then how can nothing outside the mind exist? Reality is relational. Think about that. Without reality, the Mind could have no content - and therefore, would not exist.

Solipsism assumes that the Mind produces Existence... but it could very well be that Existence has produced and continues to produce your Mind! (After all, you need to be born physically before you can have your mental Mind.) Without Existence, your Mind would literally "break down" and go crazy in that pitch black room with no outer context.

In "reality", I actually believe that both are simultaneously true: Mind and Existence simultaneously produce each other.

If, in the future, your Mind is stuck around a mental question, you can also try listening to your Heart to look & feel for what is True. I am seriously not kidding. If you had asked your Heart if there is really a outer Reality outside your Mind, it may have replied, "Of course! You know there is. Don't you feel it?"

Answer 3

That the ‘self’ is the only thing that can be known and verified? Makes sense to me, although if you think about it, I doubt self-verification is very objective, so we're back to knowing nothing. Oh well, ignorance is bliss. Take it easy (don't let the sound of your own wheels drive your crazy . . .)

Answer 4

Try having fun with it. Stretch your mind; see if you can create different realities for yourself.

Meditation may help as well.

Answer 5

Get real. Hard determinism

Answer 6

you're such a b i t c h ... report me too, please?