Isn't life weird?

Humans are very similiar to ants. I realize this everytime I visit my local Wal-Mart or get stuck in traffic.

Sometimes when I'm outside in nature I get this overwhelming sense of, "whoa, am I in the fucking matrix???"

It seems sometimes like nature and humans have nothing in common, so when I find myself surrounded by plants I start feeling like a computer system just plopped me into another dimension. Or something to that effect.

 

Hm here it's the opposite. When I'm in nature I don't feel like I am or was in a matrix at all. When I'm surrounded with people the subtile interactions also make me forget or more specific not think at all about the weirdness. It's only when I am observing lots of people doing their pointless things (like when ingesting the news or watching them do crap on tv) that this thoughts get to me sometimes. Yeah, traffic jams are a good example too actually. I also feel this way of course when I have to join them in the rat race to fulfill an obligation for society etc. Happily I can relativize it all pretty good as well, although sometimes it feels like most people do not have to do that at all and I wish I didn't had to neither

 

This.

 

What about that?

 

I always seem to think that my body is just a chemical make up of the elements in this world and physically I'm directly connnected with Earth, but spiritually I was put into this bodyfigure that I get the opportunity to control for a lifetime. This feeling came to me one time when I slept with my leg elevated and the whole leg went numb and I couldnt feel or move it.... lol

 

wow, i wish i was in control of my body because it does stuff at a cellular and microcellular not to mention subatomic level that "i" have absolutely no concept of whatsoever. whatever "i" may be. whatever my face was before i was born. whatever the whateverzen :smilielol5:

 

"Cogito ergo sum" was first coined by popular polymath, Rene Descartes. He wasn't listing the requirements of being, obviously. He was simply trying to find the starting point of all knowledge.

I don't know if any of you are aware of solipsism? But basically, this is what he is referring to. He is saying that if, individually, we know anything for sure at all, it is that we are thinking. I think we would all agree that in order to think, one would have to exist.

I know it's kind of a letdown, but that is literally all it means. It isn't a syllogism that you can strength test with existential instantiation via Aristotelian logic. He isn't saying that if you stop thinking you stop existing. I can describe it much better this way:

"I *insert present simple verb here*; therefore, I exist."

-BlkBks

 

the real question in my mind will then be if "i" stop existing will "i"stop thinking?

(and of course, what is this "i" i am wondering about. with.
wondering about with. wandering about in. wander in wonder. wander and wonder.
ah wonderful.:daisy:

 

Everything is infinite fractals, that is reality.

 

It would be even more weird if if everyone in the world took a crap in the same place. Man--what a pile.

 

we live in [ame=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o5FMTHkLQg]this? :O

 

omg you have just mind fucked me jared lol

 

eg the internet

 

....but they also grow the most amazing flowers from that pile