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Position:Home>Philosophy> How do you reason your existence?Question: How do you reason your existence!? Just interested in peoples points of view!. It could be as simple as Descartes' famous "I think therefore I am"!?!?
also, how do your personal spiritual beliefs affect your answer!? Does someone grant you the right to exist or!.!.!.!? And going deeper, if you dare, what is the reason for your existence!? Dont get to caught up in my questions, just roll with your first instinct and take a jab at the first question!. There are no wrong answers!!!! Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Without existence it is not possible to doubt!. I must exist if I am able to doubt that I exist!. It is not possible to experience existence if existence does not exist!. The absence of existence can not exist, if there is existence!. Therefore the experience of non-existence does not exist!. If existence is self aware then it is a "right" for self-awareness of existence to exist!. I grant me the right to exist by existing!. This is the reasoning that concludes I do exist with a right to exist, but not the reason for my existence!. My existence is possible because the laws of existence are not violated by my existence!. Www@QuestionHome@Com We are here because of millions of years of evolution!. every living thing gets time and space, some of us gets a little time, some get longer!.we are here to learn and pass it on, isnt that what evolution is about!. I have no spiritual beliefs pertaining to this concept!. Www@QuestionHome@Com I exist because God made me to exist, according to God's divine purpose all things are created!. I am lucky I was chosen one out of millions, I must do at least one perfect good for my Creator, but I always fail, I regret I cannot please God in return, I don't loose hope for God is patient and truly a loving God!. Www@QuestionHome@Com Reasoning existence is done with truths!. One of these is" the only need we have is truth!." Reason for your existence is knowing intuitive what you are here to do!. Two different things!. I don't consider Decartes idea as truth!.Www@QuestionHome@Com I am energy, energy cannot be destroyed, therefore i am invincible until the energy is removed from my body!.Www@QuestionHome@Com I am a part of the Force/God here on this planet at this time to experience who and what I am, so God can!.Www@QuestionHome@Com !.!.!.the love of my wife!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com i don't!. i don't reason my existence because i don't truly know if i do exist!. i may be just a figment of my or your or someone's imagination, or i may not be even that!. i dont know!. and, i have wondered basically the same question, and, i too, thought abuot descartes' quote, "Cogita Ergo Sum", which is the same thing as i think therefore i am!. and, i realized that it didnt say what i am!. it just said 'i am', which didnt imply anything about what you exist as, or even if you exist!. i believe i exist though, but i may not be correct!. some would say that if you can feel, you exist, or can experience some sense you exist!. but, i feel a need to go deeper!. i dont want a physical thing to say i exist!. i want a mental thing!. if you lose a limb, you still exist (if we say that we exist alltogether)!. but, the mind and thoughts are deeper!. if i actually do exist, i think im here to help!. anyone who needs it, all who i can, everything!. i always feel an!.!.!. engrained desire to help, to heal, to fix, to repair!.!.!. maybe thats what im supposed to do!. or, maybe, since im so drawn to thoughts of the mind, im meant for something higher!. i dont know!. if i did, i doubt i would say it, because that would mean im something higher, which, i dont think i am!.!.!. i guess i could be wrong, but i dont think im some higher power, or anything of the like!. but, i guess i could be lying, so as not to say that i am, but, i truly dont think i am!. it gets confusing when you go looking for answers this deep!. i know, i've tried!. be prepared to go running around in circles, and not getting an answer, because if you look for answers deeper than most like this, you arent likely to get one that actually makes sense and leads out of a circle!. well, im sorry i couldnt answer better, but i hope you have a wonderful day, and may you and your loved ones have many happy years to enjoy one another's company!!! -AngelWww@QuestionHome@Com |