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38158 No.169259   [Reply]

What does it mean for something to exist?

My opinion is that which is in experience exists.

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>> No.197264  

Everything that you can imagine exists...

My question would be where we will find a giant, three leged, purple elephent like being witch eats CO2 so it could fly?

>> No.198372  

that which is conceived exists in your imagination. Which in turn means that it does technically exist.

>> No.202245  

to be made of matter or energy (yes i know theyare sorta the same stfu)



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228921 No.198755   [Reply]

http://anonym.to/?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCYLerAQa8E

What does it mean /phi/ ??

>> No.202244  

it is obviously a signal from hyper intelligent beings from another parralell universe; or possibly the youtube vid of a retarted 12 year old



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311125 No.196308   [Reply]

would any one like to elaborate the theory of the multiverse?

pic related

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>> No.199764  

So basically the idea here is that given any point in time there are a potentially infinite number of possible events. As you, the observer, approach the given point, your observation begins to collapse the waveform. This progresses, the number of likely events decreasing until you come upon the moment it self, whence whatever is going to happen happens.

The multiverse is the idea that there are universes in which all the other probable events happened instead of the one that happened here relative to you, and that the alternate probabilities for every other occurrence ever were exercised as well. There are a lot of them as you might expect.

This gives you scenarios in which, say, the nazis win world war II, the dinosaurs never die out, and even more extreme variations. Universes constructed based on entirely different physical laws for instance.

This explains it pretty well I think:
http://anonym.to/?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkxieS-6WuA
http://anonym.to/?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySBaYMESb8o&feature=channel

This is my admittedly amateur understanding at least.

>> No.201795  

My biggest joy from multiverse theory is that somewhere out there....there's a Dune universe.

>> No.202243  

>>201795 you picked that over the universe that is populated with a billion wimmen who all want to have sex with you all the time and make you sandwiches?



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62099 No.193317   [Reply]

This idea had come to me a while back, before I had known that others had thought the same.

A while ago, I started to think of the concept of a parasite; It's generally smaller than its host, benefits at the hosts expense, and often causes death of the host.

Now lets say...Earth is the host,
and humans are the parasites.
When this comparison is made, humans display all the common properties of a parasite;
They absorb materials, organic or otherwise, produced by the host, causing the hosts overall health to be decreased, while at the same time, reproducing, growing more parasites, and repeating the parasitic process over and over--That is, until the host dies, and the parasite is unable to find another host or is unable to support itself and dies too.

Now, it appears the humans, the 'parasites', have realized, "O shit, we're killing the earth! We better do something about it, or we can try to find another planet we can kill...but before we do that lets kill each other"

So anyway, if humans are really just useless parasites that kill each other and bring death and sorrow to what would otherwise be a peaceful and self supportive place (like a nature without human interference), then wouldn't that make human lives worth nothing. Wouldn't that make every genocide, murder, war, cancerous death, or any other human death irrelevant to the overall existence of the universe. I mean, it's inevitable, humans are going to die out anyway, right?

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>> No.197315  

OP just watched the Matrix but spent half his post trying to give a completely different idea about it.

On a side note I find your philosophy quite immature - unless of course you're only 14-15, in which case it's acceptable.

>> No.201813  

We cannot be parasites if we do not harm a living thing. The Earth cannot reproduce, therefor is not alive.

>> No.202223  

HEY GUYS ITS OP JUST GOT DONE WATCHING THE MATRIX

WOW I LOVE AGENT SMITH HIS SPEECH IS SO COOL



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53423 No.201963   [Reply]

I think that I might be a supplementary persona of an already existing person. You guys ever think about that?
pic sorta related.

>> No.202214  

Wat is this i dont even...



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30668 No.188668   [Reply]

You guys ever wonder if darkness has color too? Similar to light but we just haven't found a way to separate it yet.

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>> No.197325  

How can one prove that darkness doesn't have any colour? OH SHI--

>> No.198336  

>>195918
learn the difference between additive and subtractive colour models before you talk about GIMP and Photoshop agreeing with you that black is all colours.

>> No.201815  

Darkness is not a color. Color depends on wavelength of light, whereas darkness is a lack of light.



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No.26970   [Reply]

<<<what do you think /b/?

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>> No.197375  

>>26970

It's called fallibilism, and it cannot be disproven.

There is the classical (and childish) argument of "Durr, but if everything can be false, doesn't that mean fallibilism could be just as false?" The answer is simple: even if fallibilism is not a certain truth, the undeterminable possibility that everything could be false is THE SAME THING as the fact that everything could be false: in both cases everything could be false.

>> No.201497  

When talking about science as an exact, you must first differentiate between whether it is a common acceptance that science is exact, and once you have made the decision you come to the realization that science is only ever exact in the current test, hence why a hypothesis is never truly "proven" but only "correct in the instance shown or until proven otherwise"

in relation to your thought. yes, it can, but only in the given parameters or to put it more bluntly, "until proven otherwise".

/thread.

>> No.201660  

"/b/"
There is no /b/ in 888. Go back to your cancerous chan.



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16494 No.199570   [Reply]

Hey /phi/
Ever noticed when you need to use the toilet urgently, the closer you get to one, the more you feel you need to go.
So, wouldn't it make sense to walk the in the opposite direction?

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>> No.200156  

I have this similar back in my country aboard a small craft. In the lavatory, a commode with deeper bowl to a shelf with a mirror and a shower above. Works well, and efficient in space constraint.

>> No.201047  

No it wouldn't make sense, you'll still need to piss.

>> No.201439  

No, if I walked in the opposite direction, I would shit my pants!



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96342 No.129150   [Reply]

I can understand the portion about trying to awaken one from their ignorance on any subject concerning religion, or lack there of. But is it truly an attempt to better you or is it for them to make their life easier by providing themselves an environment in which orthodoxy would allow them confidence in belief?

That question kind of bothers me, is it just a lack of faith in ones belief system that leads to an individual attempting to convert? For that matter, is an atheist just as unsure about their beliefs as a theist? Please don't just say no to that, because isn't it human nature to doubt? Explain please.

I am extremely undecided on what I believe, so I'm just out fishing for other people's ideas. As of right now I am deist... But just as I had said, since it is human nature to doubt, I am.

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>> No.200533  

ever heard of anti-thiest?

>> No.200574  

>>161961
Empiricism and materialism are fucking stupid, because they themselves rely on unprovable postulates. (This probably has something to do with Godel's Incompleteness Theorem). Thus it is self-contradicting (nothing exists outside of what we can see and measure and test).

>> No.200575  

>>200533
Yeah, I've heard of angsty hypocritical faggots. You can find them in coffee shops and community colleges everywhere.



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59266 No.180811   [Reply]

There's no god, no angels, no demons. There's no mystical force that pays back evil doers. Karma is a sanskrit word that basically means cause and effect. Souls don't exist. When we die, we dissipate. There's no heaven, no hell, no reincarnation. We rot and then we're eaten by bugs. Am I forgetting anything?

pic not the least bit fucking related. (but the Thunderbolts are cool)

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>> No.199070  

>>194104

>your telling me you have a better knowlage of existance than me and everybody here who questions the existence of god...

i know i cant ever get enough evidence to truly know if there is a god or if there isnt. i cant say whats most likely true because any evidence i beleive i have is worthless. but you know somthing im pretty sure about?

all that bullshit you just came out with about creating your own religion to get free stuff didnt happen..

now stop perceiving the world through your eyes and start using your mind.. because your mind is the only thing you are 100% sure exists. you arnt even 100% that people you are talking to on the internet exist.

>> No.199884  

Probably never. Also materialism is fucking retarded GTFO.

>>194104
Oh THAT explains it. The OP is in fucking highschool. Hopefully you grow up, otherwise you can write a book about the "blind watchmaker" and how "xtians r stoopid and must b destroyed!!111" and maybe make some money from like-minded faggots.
The rest of us will disdainfully laugh at you, and make sure you stay unemployed.

>> No.200199  

>>199884
lolumad?



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