Good Friday

javier's picture

So I took my meds yesterday and I feel better and my headache when away! And those weird thoughts too. I went running and did exercise with my friend. My ass and legs are so sore. We also talked and had lots of fun. We were saying that we should buy a mini van and paint it different colors. Mostly pyschadelic. Is that how it's spelled? Also in english we're doing creative writing so that we don't use common verbs and contractions and others. Wasn't easy but not impossible either. Today has been a good day. Better than yesterday.

So since I'm technically catholic but not really a catholic I might go to see the crucifiction of christ or whatever it's called. I might go to church to. I would like to go so I could learn because I like learning new things everyday and it seems interesting. Religion is actually very interesting to me because I see how others think spiritually and I like to be diverse. However, I don't affiliate myself with any religions.

Later on I have to do three extra credit assignments on the great gatsby, for whom the bell tolls and midnight in paris. I wish I wasn't so boring.

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anarchist's picture

I love learning about religions and philosophies.

I guess mine is sort of a form of solipsism, but more extreme.

MacAvity's picture

How

how the hell do you get more extreme than solipsism?

anarchist's picture

I believe

that absolutely nothing exists. Not even my own mind.

MacAvity's picture

So...

How do you think, if your mind does mind doesn't exist? Eh?
You can't deny that you think, can you?

anarchist's picture

Thoughts are illusions.

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MacAvity's picture

But

How can you have an illusion without anything to perceive it?

anarchist's picture

Perception is an illusion.

Everything is.

MacAvity's picture

Define 'illusion,' please.

I'd define it as something which is perceived but does not really exist. Illusion cannot exist without perception.

Hey.... If nothing exists and everything is an illusion, does illusion itself exist? Answer me that!

anarchist's picture

Illusion is neither matter nor energy.

It doesn't count as existence.

MacAvity's picture

So...

It's only matter and energy that don't exist? Abstractions are fine? Your mind could be an abstraction, couldn't it? Thought could be an abstraction? Perception, that's an abstraction, no?

anarchist's picture

Abstractions don't technically exist.

They're just ideas.

MacAvity's picture

Define 'exist,' please.

The way I see it, ideas exist. Existence isn't dependent on matter, and energy... well, energy's a little tricky, we'll have to define energy, too.

anarchist's picture

If abstractions count

then they are the only things that exist.

MacAvity's picture

.

Fair enough.

javier's picture

...

What is solipsism?

MacAvity's picture

The idea that nothing but

The idea that nothing but you exists - everything you perceive is an illusion. From the Latin solus ipse, 'only himself.' One of the more famous examples is the end of Mark Twain's The Mysterious Stranger (the only thing anyone seems to remember about that story).

jeff's picture

Midnight in Paris...

is amazing. I love that flick.

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"You can judge the whole world on the sparkle that you think it lacks" - Dawes, When My Time Comes (http://youtu.be/Z0FrcTX6hWI)