Do you exist? Prove it, please.
I reckon that is worth trying!
I guess that kinda 'wrecks' this philosophical question Perhaps the OP should be the one to try your little experiment?
I just extended the liberty of bodily flatulence. I guarantee I exist now!
Despite my disgust for the promotion of global warming I guess I just added to it, huh.
Watch out for the forest fires down there or down under.Luckily it is winter, otherwise my onion soup may have become yet another cause of a forest fire.
Though onion soup is hideous and nature's way of saying "screw you" I can definitely see where this concoction would be quite useful as an alternative biofuel. Jet fuel to be exact!
Send me $10,000.00 and I will send pics proving I exist in the Bahamas.
Oh...Please enclose SASE. I was going to reply but I ceased existing because you didn't send the dollars. So....you are not actually reading this post. Everybody else can see it but you can't because you unexisted me by not sending me dollars to vacation in the Bahamas.
Now...you have to prove I existed and became "unexisted"...which as a word does not exist.
Did we all just stop being when we stopped typing?
We all get the point you are trying to make parra, we just think it is a childish and somewhat stupid point to be making.
- cosetteposted 13 years ago
0 OK, I don't exist and Greek one doesn't exist. But you do. Because that made me laugh and even though I don't exist, laughter exits so you must exist.
Completely flawless reasoning, my friend.
We need to rewrite all the text books. They have it all wrong.
- zampanoposted 13 years ago0
This one's a screamer!!!!!!!!!!
Fairy fairy in the sky. can you eat this apple pie?- kimberlyslyricsposted 13 years ago0
You ask this on a virtual site? No one exists, only to themselves,
me included! Proof is unattainable, existence is here-say, and 'please', is refreshing
Thank you,
tYping
not really kYmberlYKymberly that's not you isn't it?
lol nice word working.
Sandra! that's not you too isn't it?
Totally not who I said I am not.
Whew! I am glad to know that!
- klarawieckposted 13 years ago0
Do you have a full stomach ?
BDazzler! Is that isn't you? How aren't you my friend?
Never time no see!
You're too adorable to not respond, therefore I must exist.
Hey PDH...(((HUGS))) Nice to see you.And, I could really be mean and let you know that your view(how you see it is) is skewed.
But, I'll be nice....
I just happen to know PDH better than you. That's all.Oh okay, thanks for being nice.
Hi friend Paarsurrey, I exist in your mind. But please try to read beyond the lines
Hi thought I would not drop in here again and become existent.
Well I'm convinced! I guess I'll have to get habee to send her food to Australia then. I have an invitation.
Every time this "do-we-exist/prove-it" question shows up on the Internet somewhere (and it shows up over and over and over again), my response is always to bring up the row-of-the-saltines point:
If I take out a brand new row of saltine crackers, open the wrapper, and proceed to eat the whole thing (which I don't really do, by the way - only half the row!); a couple of hours later there will be the torn open wrapper, and no crackers left. That, to me, pretty much lets someone know I'm not a figment of anyone else's imagination.
I suppose if someone were to get into forensics, there would be traces of saltines somewhere that connected me to the saltines.
If someone tries to take away my saltines, and I punch him in the nose, give him a nose-bleed, and leave the imprint of my ring and fingernails on his face, I'd say that pretty much proves I exist too.
Except for those people that get into the whole, "How do we know what's real is actually reality" thing, nobody asks me to prove I exist (although a lot of people act as if I don't, sometimes
). Still, I'm here, potentially punching noses if I have reason to - so if anyone asked me to prove I exist I wouldn't find it difficult. Lisa HW.
The H stands for hubpages! The W for writer. 322 hubs.
I reckon there is a better than even chance that you are real here anyway!Sorry, Cagsil, but I just have to make one little comment in response to earnesthub's:
Hey - I never thought of that. It's kind of weird now that you mention it. (The "W" stands for "Warren".) Anyway, if my 322 Hubs don't prove I exist, there is always the saltine-cracker method.
Hey Earnest, why bring this pathetic thread back alive. It has been two hours since Lisa posted to it...it was dying a miserable death into non-existence.
When something foolish like this thread is dying, it is better off to let it die.So you are implying that non followers of fairies need to respond?
Why would that be I wonder. Oh that's right! Your unending boring repetitive flogging of the quoran! I never claimed to exist. In fact, I'm just a figment of all of your imaginations. Some of you people have some really perverse imaginations, too. You know who you are.
- Home Girlposted 13 years ago0
Define exist first
Existence can be proven by visual proof such as a photograph - which you see mine by my name and can thus show it to others to prove you have seen me...
It can be proven by hearing - if we were on the phone you would hear my voice and could thus record it and prove to others that you had heard me...
It can be proven by touch - if I would let you near me and allow your hand to touch mine, you would be certain without question that you had touched living flesh, though proving that to others would have to be by faith.
It can be proven by smell - though I hope for the sake of all that nobody here smells bad.
It can be proven by taste, but once again, we're not going there.
You ask me to prove my existence - by all the ways listed I can prove my existence but you cannot prove your God by any of those or by any other means other than offering faith. I am not trying to be rude, simply bluntly honest in answering your question paarsurrey.You made your points very well.
True, impairment of those senses can cause issues with recording fact in some instances. Are all people impaired? No. Out of 1000 people, you may have 100 that are impaired and the other 900 may be perfectly fine. That particular argument can be used on both sides, and even though it may explain the opinions of a few people, it still doesn't explain everything.
You can prove your physical existence to me, and vice-versa. The biggest contention I have is in proving how the life-force that exists in every living creature and organism can be defined as being that is all knowing and is human in its actions and reactions - how it can be personified as though mere humans know all about it. That combined with the contradictions in the Bible, Torah, Quran and all other books is what leaves me questioning. If the book contradicts itself, who is to say that the belief written therein about the life-force being God, and God being omnipotent and humanistic, yet perfect - how can I believe that is true? I used to have blind faith in it - I cannot ignore the contradictions. This is the biggest issue that exists with it, in my opinion. By the very definition of being human, one is imperfect. How can any human, then, claim to know all about an unknowable, unseen entity and claim it to be so? Visions do not prove anything other than that the brain entered a vivid dreaming state. The mind is capable of MANY things, one of which is vivid dreaming, and another is the ability to prove and disprove theory. I am not attempting to be rude or disrespectful - just to obtain more information. Take care. In other words, since those things are out of reach of all of our senses, we still know they are there, and even if we have no way of sensing their presence, we somehow formulate the knowledge in our minds that they are indeed there.
""The orthodox Muslim conception of God may be summed up as follows: God is one; He has no partners; Singular, without any like Him; Uniform, having no contrary; Separate, having no equal; Ancient, having no first.""
"Of the ninety-nine names given to Allah in the Qur'an
He is called,
bullet The Mighty (Al Aziz)
bullet The Subduer (Al Quhhar)
bullet The Great One (Al Azim)
bullet The Most Great (Al Kabir)
bullet The Most Strong (Al Qawi)
bullet The Powerful (Al Muqtadir)"
I am a tree falling in the forest - does anybody hear me? I am the sound of one paw, clapping. I am an article, spun by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing - though I "perceive" myself to be typing, I "believe" I am just a figment of my imagination.
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