How Absurd is the philosophical question: do I exist?(!) Seems to me you don’t have to think about it, that it’s the most fundamental thing we know. It seems like a mind game but many people with sz and sza related diseases wonder about this. Many of us think we are not “there” or “dead” because of decline and personality problems. I have suffered many years from this but even though my sense of self is greatly diminished I have to have some sense of self to have an experience. I exist. I make “I AM” statements. I want to exist. I am not a Zen Buddhist, I could never meditate. I am open to having a bit of dualism too, just not the A-hole I created as a child, my Imaginative representative. I think maybe mental illness could be termed “The Philosophy”, like you’ve come down with a case of the Philosophy. I decide to believe I exist and that I benefit nothing from being a vacuum and I’ll go to great lengths to prove it.
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I go by the philosophy of Popeye, “I think, therefore I yam what I yam.”
“I am not a man, and I am not a creature. I barely exist at all. I am a breath of mist that chills people’s souls, and then vanishes.”
[(6) What I Am - Edie Brickell - YouTube]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33zJvKNYv2c
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