Quote Originally Posted by Jintatsu View Post
This is a subject that's always interested me. Whether or not you and everyone and everything around me actually exists or not. Pardon me for getting into pseudo-sociopathic ideas, but if I hurt you, do you in fact feel pain, or are you just an enviornment reacting to me in a way predetermined or simply due to my perception? Am I the only truly conscience person in this world? I have no proof that you or anyone else is. When I was younger, I used to wonder if I were in an experiment. If an alien race or something of the like put me into a controlled and artificial enviornment to see how I'd react. Like the Truman Show, but without real people. Later, I got into a more abstract concept.

I heard a quote once: "Everything alive is God's personal toy." In the context it was given, it sums up the angle I'm trying to get at. If I am the only conscious one, does that make me God? Are you my creation? Creations of the mind that I interact with. Is this body I use real, or simply the way my mind interacts with my creations? Are my creations "alive" or are they simply figments of my mind that were made for me to interact with?

I could go on forever with this and I may already sound like Charlie Manson, so I'll leave it at that.
Wow O_O That's a real mind****. Actually, it reminds me of that episode of South Park, Tooth Fairy Tats where Kyle begins to read tons of books about existence/non-existence and he ends up warping space-time.

I've never really thought that much about it, I always figured there are tons of dimensional planes, and what we humans perceive is on our own dimensional plane. For instance, all that we can discover through science, that's on our plane. Now assuming things such as angels, god, devils, ghosts and such are real, they would be in different dimensional planes, ones which would allow the crossover into ours.

One thing I thought of that I would like to add to my simple explanation of Taoism is this: if we are all the same singularity, simply manifest into different forms...the fact that we forms known as humans have cognitive thought would make us...I suppose supreme beings. Or at least we started out as that, anyway. I don't view any species that kills its own over petty things like religion and color and that destroys its own environment supreme. I suppose if you were to try to coincide this with Christianity, Adam and Eve were supreme beings, created to look over this world. But then the Fall came and brought about "sin."

It's said that humans only use 10% of their brains. Whatever this Fall was, whatever this "sin" is that was brought about, is probably related to the other 90% of our brains being inactive. I wonder just what we would be able to achieve and realize if we had 100% cognitive functionality.