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Old 06-15-2007, 10:36 AM   #1
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You Can't Prove You Exist
You can't prove to me that you exist. Don't even bother, it's impossible.
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Old 06-15-2007, 10:41 AM   #2
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You can't prove I don't.
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Old 06-15-2007, 10:45 AM   #3
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You can't prove I don't.
It's generally assumed that you do. I'm questioning that assumption, not commenting on the chances that the opposite is true.
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Old 06-15-2007, 10:46 AM   #4
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Don't even bother
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Old 06-15-2007, 10:48 AM   #5
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By acknowledging your attempt not to bother, you implicitly legitimze your subconscious desire to bother.
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expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever
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Old 06-15-2007, 10:53 AM   #6
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An eccentric philosophy professor gave a one question final
exam after an entire semester dealing with a broad array of
topics.

The class was already seated and ready to go when the
professor picked up his chair, plopped it on his desk and
wrote on the board: "Using everything we have learned this
semester, prove that this chair does not exist."

Fingers flew, erasers erased, notebooks were filled in furious
fashion. Some students wrote over 30 pages in one hour
attempting to refute the existence of the chair.

One member of the class however, was up and finished in
less than a minute.

Weeks later when the grades were posted, the rest of the
group wondered how he could have gotten an A when he had
barely written anything at all.

They found his answer consisted of two words: "What chair?"
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Old 06-15-2007, 10:58 AM   #7
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By acknowledging your attempt not to bother, you implicitly legitimze your subconscious desire to bother.
You said "don't even bother" not "don't want to bother." Part of me wants to bother, but I see the futility, so I won't bother.

Oh, and who's words are you reading right now?

Shit! I attempted to convince you I exist. Damnit!
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Old 06-15-2007, 11:57 AM   #8
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By acknowledging your attempt not to bother, you implicitly legitimze your subconscious desire to bother.
how . . . clever . . . of you to create a thread to which any response can be slammed down.
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Old 06-15-2007, 12:04 PM   #9
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... how . . . clever . . . of you ...
What is it of you to comment on it? More clever than me? Okay, you win. Hands down.
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Old 06-15-2007, 11:00 AM   #10
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You can't prove to me that you exist. Don't even bother, it's impossible.
To whom are you addressing this?
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Old 06-15-2007, 11:03 AM   #11
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To whom are you addressing this?
Well, I'm the only one present. If my boss walks in, this window goes away.
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Old 06-15-2007, 11:02 AM   #12
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I can prove I exist, but only to myself, not to you.

In fact, it is the only provable thing there is.
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Old 06-15-2007, 11:07 AM   #13
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I can prove I exist, but only to myself, not to you.

In fact, it is the only provable thing there is.
I wrote and erased a reply saying basically that proof itself is delusion. You seem to feel otherwise. How does one go about proving one's own existance.
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Old 06-15-2007, 11:17 AM   #14
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I wrote and erased a reply saying basically that proof itself is delusion. You seem to feel otherwise. How does one go about proving one's own existance.
If existance is a delusion, then I am the deluded thing.
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Old 06-15-2007, 11:19 AM   #15
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Finally, something we can all agree with:
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SNIP...I am the deluded thing...SNIP
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