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How do we know that we exist?

It is only with our belief in God that we are able to live and be. Without God, life is not worth knowing. Also only from God we have eternal knowledge and know-how. Our life, power, all our know-how comes from Him.

WHOA! Hold on, the author is now pulling god in this discussion! Does the writer suggest that in order to prove existence there has to be a god? What a joke! It is based on this “god” joke that her argument will now fail. God is an invisible friend for grown-ups; he is non-existent and senseless being. For this god is a conclusion someone made up one day to explain the universe. In actuality the universe doesn’t exist any more then I do. Sure, the author will debate that pictures and telescopes show the magnificence of god’s creation, but nothing can be proven with certainty. Even the fact that I am arguing is senseless and meaningless, for isn’t the author stimulating all these arguments? If I am just a complex puppet being typed on a page, then why wouldn’t the author also be a pawn masquerading by stimuli? How can the author prove otherwise?

Stop! These crazy ramblings by the paper! The paper is now reverting back to previous arguments and going nowhere with them. Lets say for a minute that the paper is right and we are puppets being pulled by strings, then someone has to pull those strings, right? The paper just proved that God exists! There has to be a master puppeteer, and creator of the puppets; that is God. Again if the paper does not exist, then why does it waste time by arguing at all? For doesn’t the meaning of nihilism come from the Latin nil which means: nothing? Would the paper say… anything?

Outside Descartes and Nietzsche realms of the mind, what is real? What is imagined? Can we truly ever really know? As a sentient being, I have argued with Descartes for existence, but I failed to prove it! As a forced character, the paper tried to prove Nietzsche’s nihilism, but failed in that respect. In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Hamlet says: “yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?” Philosophers all alike follow the labyrinth of the quagmire of humanity. However, it is my opinion, the answer of existence lies in-between. There is no god, no imaginary friend, but existence, that belief is held by most of humanity and because so many people believe it, it is true. Existence will fail if enough people believe it doesn’t exist. Even this paper exists because you and I deem that it is there, but is it? If we stopped our fallible belief, then it would be nil.

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  1. Adele Bentley

    On January 11, 2008 at 3:14 pm


    Good grief! Did I, being me, just read that? Or was my non-existent brain in a jar just being stimulated? Poked? Proded? Did I imagine it? Was it real? What is “it”?

    I thank God HE is real and I DO believe that! For without Him there is nothing that is and to imagine the universe, the trees, the paper…what would give me the idea that anything exists without Him?

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