Redemption wrote:1) quarko the reason i'm interested is because is that i like robotics and programming. even tho i only know nothing but a little C language (well something like it. heard of arduino?) and would like to construct a small tank.
Well, I once was interested in automation and robotics too but I could not manage to find a proper idea of what to do when I learn it. Build robots for fun? Nah, after building few it'll get boring. Find a job with robotics? Nah, already have a good one without robotics. That's why I dumped that idea.
Redemption wrote:2)well the fact that i'm talking to you and your understanding me is the first thing that got me curios about you.
Rrrright, so when one person understands another person it is a historical event of sorts?
Redemption wrote:As you know, I have a very high theory that your all a part of a computer and this is all a RPG game and me a mere character in it. and if you didn't then you do now.
here is a word for it : Solipsism
i think that i have something like this. i believe that your all fake and that I am the only real being forced into a game to play until i'm "ready" to go out and do my "duty" whatever it may be.
another is this: we're all fake but are tricked into thinking we're real and one of us is the main player and we, just sub characters we meet to find comfort.
The keyword in here is 'believe'. This is one of those ideas that you can
never (by definition) prove but can believe it as long as you want. It's similar to religion - no proof but a bunch of pure belief based on nothing. You are free to believe whatever you want, but I stand a position of scientific skepticism. I do not believe anything that I can never by definition prove. That's why I do not believe in god, souls, ghosts, reincarnation and invisible pink magic unicorns. But I know that the theory of ego evolutionizing from the leftover charges in brain can be proved (or disproved) one day in the future, that's why I allow myself to believe that theory.
I tested you to see if you were anyone of these and it seems you fit in to the first one, but i'm not sure. no one has asked before. this is a new case.
Asked what?
3) ARE YOU AMERICAN? cuz i'm English. and if you want to pursue this "Solipsistic attitude" and if i am really solipsistic, then just PM me and i'll tell you everything from the start. your choice.
No, I live in Lithuania but was born in Ukraine.
Can you explain something to me please: what will belief in solipsicism change in your or my lives? How will it affect you? The answer is - it wont. So either you believe it or not that changes nothing.
I think I know how it feels to have 'solipistic attitude': you walk on the street, you see someone knocked on the ground, you call the medics, medics save the guy and you walk home with thoughts like "It was not a coincidence that I met that guy and helped him. Someone placed him there to see how would I behave. It's good that I behaved right."
Now ask yourself:
1) Why couldn't it happen by itself? Guy got drunk, was lying on the ground for 8 hours until you appeared. Pretty natural situation.
2) If this is some kind of 'test' - shouldn't it be intended for you to pass
without knowing it is a test? That means that by believing that it is a test and behaving like in a test - you are cheating in this RPG game. And that could mean you will get disqualified or something after the 'game' ends.
3) Are you sure that the test is meant to see if you are a 'good' person? Maybe in a 'real' world you are some alien invader that is being tested if he hates humankind even in human form?
Or maybe you are tested for totally different reason - for example as an experiment like 'how many days can a person live in a virtual world without getting the brain cancer'? And nobody really cares what you do there?
Or another idea: maybe you are in coma in some distant future. As it was incurable, your family bought you a virtual-reality implant to make you be able to live a fulfilling life at least in the virtual world (that also explains your mental disorders). And now you are wasting your last and only life on believing that it is a virtual world and you need to behave appropriately.
4) about lanacs post: so your saying that i died? T.T why am i always the first to die T.T
No, I meant that none of us never existed. There is a body, there is a brain, there are electrical impulses coming through it. What you think is 'you' (ego, consciousness), is an illusion made by electrical charges in your brain. When you die - the charges stop and illusion disappears. That is all.
nah just lighting up the mood
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. so quarko your saying we have no soul? i believe this.
Believing it or not believing it changes nothing as I mentioned before. So why bother thinking about that?
i have no religion, no mum, living in my room as a recluse. these all have taken their toll and I've had loads of time to think about life. i did originally think that i did have a soul but your points do verify that this is false.
I'm sorry for you. As about 'soul' - believing it exists or not changes
nothing so you are free to believe anything as long as you want and I won't judge you for that. Let me give you an idea - we are the creation of a 'Holy Pink Unicorn' which shaped our souls into unicorn symbols and implanted them into monkeys making them evolutionize into humans. Now he watches us from the holy river of cherry jelly and sometimes visits us in our dreams. Go on, you can start believing it now
Believing in god, as in pink unicorn example, also changes nothing. As an agnostic atheist I take the chance that the god could exist. However, again, I can never know for sure if it does, meaning that belief in any god is totally pointless. But do not confuse the phrases 'I believe there is no god' and 'I do not believe there is god'. The slight difference makes them totally different views on reality. In my case - I do not believe there is god (as in 'lack of belief').
this caught my eye. i did some research and some people say that we do some do not. and how do we find out if we do go anywhere if we die? when we go we can't come back. well as lanac said, what if you came back but forgot your previous life? it could work.
or as the Chinese say born as an animal? these rules can make you forget and also not speak of it.
And that again proves my point of view. Why bother with thinking about this stuff if it does not matter in any way? And even if it does matter - you will never know how for sure.
and quarko just as a matter of your interest. i don't really know why i'm so intruded to your persona. all i know for sure is that your very VERY interesting. very.
You are lucky I'm in a talkative mood. When that ends - I will be boring as a painted rock.