Have we manipulated ourselves in believing that we actually exist?

Answer 1

If a tree falls in a forrest, and no one is around to witness it . . . I hope it lands on that freaking squirrel!

That doesn't apply to anything you've asked, but in a similar vein, much of philosophy seems to consist of logical word games that don't apply to anything either.

The closer we get to understanding quantum physics, where familiar laws break down and do not apply, the closer we get to understanding that, yes, there is an underlying basis to what we call "reality."

Quantum physics presents us with a series of 'infinite' (or at least several) possibilities, which collapse into a set, finite, predictable and consistent reality when observed. The quantum field from which all being springs (for comfort, you might think of it as 'collective consciousness' or the 'Mind of God, or anything else you desire) is such that "once observed, always observed, universally observed."

That tiny bit of otherwise inert matter that is 'me' has experiences uniquely its own, and so feels apart from the spirit that is of the whole, and special unto itself. But the spirit that is in me I know to be in you, and in all people, and in the very soil I walk on.

We are of one source, and perhaps will return there, but for now we are here and are very real.

Answer 2

This is an odd question, and I'd like to answer it with one of my own: What is the alternative? If we did not exist, what would we be? There is no future in non-existence (no pun intended). Non-existence is death. We exist in the physical world. We breath, think, touch, smell, taste, see, and hear. We can affect the physical world around us and cause changes...sounds like existence to me. The only manipulation we do is in our interaction with the physical world and with other people.

Answer 3

Probably, which proves that this existence is not essential; because also a lot of people have manipulated themselves into believing that we actually don't exist!0!

Good luck!

Answer 4

Christianity as an entire or maybe all branches of religion is fill with skepticism, there are just to many unanswered questions approximately them questioning approximately any fool no longer be skeptical. once you're carry approximately have self assurance that some drastic exchange will ensue on your existence upon turning your existence over to God base upon a sequence of Christian or although innovations and that doesn't ensue, the instructions themselves Create SKETICISM....... as you pass on FAKING and PRETENDING you're a replaced individual, jointly as understanding finished nicely no exchange occurred. occasion: Getting Baptized in water, every person who did this, comprehend they have been in seek of a few notible exchange in them in basic terms to discover they went down a DRY devil and got here up a moist devil.

Answer 5

All I know is that I didn't choose to spring forth from my mother's womb...so maybe SHE manipulated me into existence and then I took over once I was old enough to manipulate myself.

Answer 6

It's your reality... or perhaps it's something else. The fact that you "manipulated yourself" should tell you something. To manipulate, implies the act of doing something knowingly. Ergo, existence.

Answer 7

if we did, at least for ONCE in your life believe that god is here now attempting through individual solace of the remorse or moaning of those cosmic raws to adhere to one simple causality looping...

and that that loop is in fact a helix as evidenced in someone's DNA

and that that person is trying so very dearly and sincerely to adhere to one simple little observation:::::>

Every entity exists in perfect friendship with one another
to manipulate is to co-create
is to exacerbate
is to emphasize
is to articulate
is to believe oneself regarding life
is to exist without need for anything really insignificant
regarding the cosmic current that flows profusely
in these moments of complete and total awe of life

Answer 8

It's because most AmeriKans are such functional illiterates, they have never studied Plato and Otherworldly Philosophy so they are stuck in their own reality.

Yes, I exist... but not in the present form because that is merely a manifestation of my other, perfect, form in the other world.

But, even this imaginary form, get's hungry and cold.

Answer 9

Who is the "we" that manipulates ourselves?

Who is the "I" that manipulates myself?

Answer 10

Yes, i certainly did. I suggest myself all the time : ''I am real, i exist, i am a being, not a shadow'' , and i have to look in the mirror every hour, to be sure i didn't disappear.