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Question:Even the guy at the grocery store forgets you, all your friends and family, and all acquaintences as well.


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Even the guy at the grocery store forgets you, all your friends and family, and all acquaintences as well.

i would feel as if i were dead. i wouldn't feel like i existed.
if that happened, i would go crazy. i am nothing w/out my friends or my family.
all human communication shut off?.....that would be terrible. i would feel like a shadow, just a shadow. a ghost of what once was. dead, truly dead.

Sometimes I really wish they would..!

Well it would really feel terrible if everyone you loved suddenly forgot you. I probably would still exist, just would have to start a new life. Besides if I said "You used to be my wife." to this girl or somthing like that, they would think i'm insane.

Yes, their perspective and memory of me is not what keeps me in existence.

Rather it is me that keeps them in existence.

I already doubt "My" existance. It certainly is not in the control of others.

peace and love

As long as you remember yourself, of course you exist.

I think I still would but life would suck if no one remebers you. I only wanted the people i don't like to forget me not others you love.

yet again with this question.

There are entire galaxies that nobody knows about, I can assure you that they still exist.

To believe such a thing, one would have to believe in the Primacy of Consciousness http://www.aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/pr... and the Prior Certainty of Consciousness http://www.aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/pr... .

If you truly believed these, you could not prove you yourself exist except through Cartesian cartwheels.

Of course I would exist, I'm more than just a figment of their imagination......I'm way too real!