What I know for sure....
When I was younger I thought I had a good understanding of the way things worked, now that I am older I realized all the things I knew when I was young were wrong. I have called this the "Ear muffs and blinders syndrome." This is when your parents tell you all these things to hide the truth about the world from you until one day these things are revealed to you all of a sudden, it is as if the ear muffs and blinders get ripped off revealing the true world to you. Now I am a philosophy major and I have studied many ideas of what the world is. Did you know some believe that the external world doesn't even exist, that everything we perceive is actually just in our minds or that existence is basically just a bunch of perceptions shared by multiple minds. I would like to say that was true but then again I don't think I could truly that cruel to myself. The world is a mean place so if it was really all in my mind why would I put myself through all that? As I sit here with my trusty Corona(my drink of choice) I ponder the ideas of the universe. This idea brings me to many ideas that I have noted in science from such great minds as Hawking, Descartes, Kant and even Homer Simpson with his idea of the donut shaped universe, a very perplexing idea indeed. What I have decided from all this is that the only thing I really know to be true is that I exist, "I think therefore I am" as Descartes puts it in his First Meditations of Philosophy and as for now it truly is the only thing I can prove.
Now wait, you may think, how can you doubt the outside world, it is right in front of you. Well yes it is but the thing is everything right in front of me I perceive through my senses and I realize that my senses can be wrong. Like take for instance when I have had a few too many of my trusty Coronas and I decide that I can beat the crap out of the 300 lb guy that just bumped into me. Yeah I may know karate but I also know just down right suicidal, except for when I have had too many coronas. That said we all know that even when we are stone cold somber we can be deceived by our senses, we might see things that aren't there or just from the angle we don't see it the same way as we would from another angle. With this said maybe you should rethink what you can clear and distinctly perceive to be real and false.
Now wait, you may think, how can you doubt the outside world, it is right in front of you. Well yes it is but the thing is everything right in front of me I perceive through my senses and I realize that my senses can be wrong. Like take for instance when I have had a few too many of my trusty Coronas and I decide that I can beat the crap out of the 300 lb guy that just bumped into me. Yeah I may know karate but I also know just down right suicidal, except for when I have had too many coronas. That said we all know that even when we are stone cold somber we can be deceived by our senses, we might see things that aren't there or just from the angle we don't see it the same way as we would from another angle. With this said maybe you should rethink what you can clear and distinctly perceive to be real and false.
posted by 4man at 11:29 PM
1 Comments:
For life to be simply the perspective's each of us percieve and in fact for that applying to the whole of existence as well is a very interesting point. Sadly this theory doesn't account for so many things. Something happens even if no one is there to percieve it. Or at least affects can be percieved the old saying if a tree falls in the forest applies here. Even though no one percieves the tree falling it's effects can still be seen. No matter how minute or small they are. And as we all know to every effect there is a cause there can be no other way. Now I might be skipping over the whole meaning of perception and how things can affect it but to go into it any deeper would take a book not a comment. Homer Simpson has it all down pat anyway. You want the answer to all the importan questions in life go watch the simpsons and be happy.
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