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Questions from JunkFlex: “Hello Meta Sage, I have been enjoying your channel off and on for a couple of years now. I do hope you have the time to communicate with me!
I go about my life with a small circle of people that I come into contact with. None of which are willing to agree with my viewpoint. I participated in a Wechsler Adult Intelligence Test in 2010, it was the 3rd version. The results were not normal. Everyone I try to communicate my viewpoint on existence either can't or won't grasp it, no matter how verbosely I explain myself.
This is what I’ve been saying to people:
"I am not convinced that anything exists because I do not believe that the substance of reality must adhere to my initial basic assumptions as a 'supposed' entity within it"
(That one is more cunning because it states something about myself and my own beliefs and they may be able to swallow it better by first seeing me in the predicament of my own viewpoint then possibly apply that viewpoint to themself on their own accord)
"Existence is but the preoccupation of the existence centric mindset.”
People constantly have to reference a snippet of scientific theory they have heard about or they simply knock on the table in front of them and say "then how can this happen?" others will say, "if I pinch you it will hurt", suggesting that my sensation of physical discomfort or pain is somehow evidence. Even though the further I think about this topic the blurrier the logic seems to get in my head, I am confident that I need very little information but rather only reasoning with a healthy touch of abstraction to get the answer. (It is like I am seeing a blurry version of the logical construct from behind textured glass). I guess this is why many people entering the realm of 'armchair philosophy' will disguise their ideas as questions. So to end this email I will spout a few of those questions for you.
Isn't 'infinite everything' a little too messy to be plausible?
Could the premise of existence be an 'immature' notion?
Why would our surroundings be as simple as we are?
Players of a game must adhere to the rules of the game but does the game also have to adhere to those same rules?
Could the purposelessness of everything be an indicator that it does not actually exist?
In closing I would just like to mention that I did watch your video on existentialism and nihilism and it was comforting for me to listen to. At the end however you said something about my viewpoint.
'Absurdism, Existentialism and Nihilism' 15 Jul 2016.
"And if you want to be stubborn and deny your own existence, then who, may I ask is making this denial?"
And my answer to your question is with my last question:
Can everything actually exist within nothing?
Kind regards,
Junkflex (David).”
Transcript: sagebodisattva.tumblr.com/post/190577887059/meta-q-and-a-part-five-nobody-agrees-so-i-got
Questions from JunkFlex: “Hello Meta Sage, I have been enjoying your channel off and on for a couple of years now. I do hope you have the time to communicate with me!
I go about my life with a small circle of people that I come into contact with. None of which are willing to agree with my viewpoint. I participated in a Wechsler Adult Intelligence Test in 2010, it was the 3rd version. The results were not normal. Everyone I try to communicate my viewpoint on existence either can't or won't grasp it, no matter how verbosely I explain myself.
This is what I’ve been saying to people:
"I am not convinced that anything exists because I do not believe that the substance of reality must adhere to my initial basic assumptions as a 'supposed' entity within it"
(That one is more cunning because it states something about myself and my own beliefs and they may be able to swallow it better by first seeing me in the predicament of my own viewpoint then possibly apply that viewpoint to themself on their own accord)
"Existence is but the preoccupation of the existence centric mindset.”
People constantly have to reference a snippet of scientific theory they have heard about or they simply knock on the table in front of them and say "then how can this happen?" others will say, "if I pinch you it will hurt", suggesting that my sensation of physical discomfort or pain is somehow evidence. Even though the further I think about this topic the blurrier the logic seems to get in my head, I am confident that I need very little information but rather only reasoning with a healthy touch of abstraction to get the answer. (It is like I am seeing a blurry version of the logical construct from behind textured glass). I guess this is why many people entering the realm of 'armchair philosophy' will disguise their ideas as questions. So to end this email I will spout a few of those questions for you.
Isn't 'infinite everything' a little too messy to be plausible?
Could the premise of existence be an 'immature' notion?
Why would our surroundings be as simple as we are?
Players of a game must adhere to the rules of the game but does the game also have to adhere to those same rules?
Could the purposelessness of everything be an indicator that it does not actually exist?
In closing I would just like to mention that I did watch your video on existentialism and nihilism and it was comforting for me to listen to. At the end however you said something about my viewpoint.
'Absurdism, Existentialism and Nihilism' 15 Jul 2016.
"And if you want to be stubborn and deny your own existence, then who, may I ask is making this denial?"
And my answer to your question is with my last question:
Can everything actually exist within nothing?
Kind regards,
Junkflex (David).”
Transcript: sagebodisattva.tumblr.com/post/190577887059/meta-q-and-a-part-five-nobody-agrees-so-i-got
