assuming everyone who reads this agrees that life is in actual fact, REAL, how did you come to that conclusion?
2007-12-14 19:01:35 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Try holding your breath non stop
very quickly your face will first turn red and puffy
and if you're still able to hold your breath
then your face will start to turn dark blue and just dark
and if you're still able to continue to hold your breath
You'll then drop off and die
Would that be REAL enough for you?
2007-12-21 18:55:29 · answer #1 · answered by rafeli_1 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I make no assumptions beyond the conclusions arrived at by experience. My experience of life is real, and this experience is confirmed by those with whom I interact, therefore we live in a real universe. I can say nothing of yours, but since you are asking a question in mine you are either real or an exceptionally fine figment of my imagination.
2007-12-14 20:43:20 · answer #2 · answered by Fr. Al 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Try stabbing yourself in the leg with a sharp instrument.
If you feel REAL pain, than you can assume that you are living. If you are living, then you can assume that life is REAL.
2007-12-14 19:10:36 · answer #3 · answered by G M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The fact that we define life as real makes it real. It wouldn't be real if we didn't decide as a civilization to make it that way.
2007-12-14 19:11:12 · answer #4 · answered by mariam 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Climb the Highest Mountain," Mark Prophet, "Men in White Apparel," Ann Ree Colton, and "The Reincarnation of Edgar Cayce?", Free and Wilcock, http://www.divinecosmos.com
These are examples of cogent reasoning of how one knows "what is real," beyond naive realism.
cordially,
j.
2007-12-14 19:16:02 · answer #5 · answered by j153e 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The question is so vague and open to interpretation as to be essentially meaningless.
More akin to a Rorshach test that an actual question.
2007-12-14 19:10:34 · answer #6 · answered by david e 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It could be all in my head...but that still would leave ME real, because I realize that I'm thinking all of this is real.
2007-12-14 19:06:01 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Feeling that life and WE are not real can be too terrifying. Distract yourself when that happens.
2007-12-14 19:31:58 · answer #8 · answered by gwellssss 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
your living life
2007-12-14 19:06:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Death is the best best proof that life is real.
2007-12-14 20:48:41 · answer #10 · answered by feroz k 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋