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Philosophy of existance

Poke holes in my illogic all you like.....I don't mind since you are all quite possibly constructs of my own imagination........if anyone thinks they actually know the truth let me know......This a very short version of what I came up with but it was all chasing my tail so I tried to just get the main points....
Before I start this damned essay I must make clear a term the I will e using and that is the Perception Cycle Theory (PCT), which simply states the genisis of all things is perception and all things return to that genisis. This essay is of the abstract and should not be taken as concrete, this however depends on your perception (PCT).

This following paragraph does not only focus on the observations of the minds perceptions, but also sensory perception and perhaps even extra-sensory perception as well.

It has been said that perception is based on experience. However how is it possible to experience something without first perceiving it? Thus we must first perceive something to experience it. In abstract terms I will explain it thus: Based on reality everyone is a unique and individual entity, therefore we each perceive reality somewhat differently. If everything we are taught can be believed there are some universal statutes and rules, but since thats really based on someones perception it is entirely questionable. What one may perceive to be a ghost, may to another be a delusion or hallucination, who can say which one is correct.

Relating to the topic of sensory perception is the question that if one can nolonger perceive an object and thus it's existance, does it then cease to exist? This question is the most infuriating as this is where PCT comes into play. If one cannot perceive something the it must cease to exist, how can it? To question reality and the perception of reality we are eventually, following this line of thought, led to doubt all existance as existance is based on ones perception of reality. We perceive that we think but this is a perception and is entirely questionable. Thus is perception the basis of reality and therefore existance, and without perception nothing can exist and thus we cannot either. So what is truth?

A famous philospher once wrote " I think therefore I am".....it was Plato I think, or maybe Aristotle. Doesn't really matter who wrote it. Whoever wrote perceived that they thought and therefore that perceived their own existance. This makes us as humans, and any other entity that perceives, as entities of perception and through perception entities that experience which leads us to yet more perception, leading us to make assumptions through which to perceive the future. Since no one actually knows the truth however all objects and events are coloured by our own perception. This topic runs in maddening circles without any perceivable answers, but that depends on your perception (PCT). It would be simpler not to think but that would leave us without perception and thus we cease to exist. Maddening isn't it....

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  • azlyn gold member
    February 15
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    Like we were saying...if God is God where did God come from? If we came from the Big Bang...where did the ingredients for the Big Bang originate? If we just crawled out of prehistoric slime, where in the frig did it come from. There had to be someting somewhere for us to be anywhere! I can chase this theory for hours and days. I loved the many points you brought forth in this piece. Makes perfect sense to me. Our perception is really our reality. And we all could be just part of one anothers PCT! That is wild...thanks for sharing this...loved reading it!!!


    Az

  • kiwigirljacks gold member
    February 15
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    OMG

    I don't know about you.. by I don't know the answer!! lol

    It's the whole "if a tree falls in the forrest and no one hears it...." thing.

    This was intense and yes, a little maddening as I don't have the answers!! DAMMIT! I guess I've always only believed in very tangible things.. things I can touch, feel, see with my own eyes... and yet, who's to say that there isn't something beyond that... Like you, I drive myself in circles sometimes thinking about it.

    But you took it to a whole new level!!!! Hmmmm.... indeed you area dark well... Ravensdark!

    Great stimulating piece!