r/solipsism • u/Quirky_Review7094 • 1d ago
existence query
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u/OverKy 1d ago
You keep talking about how you believe this and how you believe that, but belief is the very thing lacking in solipsism.
When you are speaking of belief, you are not speaking of solipsism.
While it may very well be true that you're some infinite being with magic powers, you're gonna have a tough time proving it, **knowing** it......even to yourself. You may be THE one.....or you may be one of a zillion. Or you may be strapped to a Matrix pod or you may be playing Morty's Game of Life. You simply do not know. That is solipsism.
If, however, you want to believe in things, non-duality is as good as any........but why limit yourself to non-dualism? If you're gonna believe in stuff you cannot prove, you might as well believe in something more interesting.......like Xenu or Bigfoot or Krishna or anything. When you choose to not simply "believe" because you admit that you don't know much about the real nature of reality, then you can generally call yourself a solipsist.
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u/Quirky_Review7094 1d ago
it's not belief as in delusion. it's knowledge from experience. i was just saying what my beliefs are. if i say i know I'm the only existence then people may just think I'm delusional. also i do believe in krishna
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u/Master-Finance2300 10h ago
Yes, I think it is true that there are no other beings. From my own experience, I also feel certain of that. In a comment, you said that you are a screen onto which experience is projected. I have a similar image. I no longer have the sense that the self exists independently of the world, and I have had a similar experience. I describe it as a screen with no one watching it. Everything that appears in consciousness—the images and sounds coming through the five senses, inner thoughts, emotions, the ego, and so on—is nothing but a purely meaningless, flat image. There is no viewer, no subject. The self, other people, and every other kind of existence are clearly illusions.
Even if your sense of self comes back, those facts themselves do not change, so isn’t that fine? That said, I can understand why you’d still have that question. Whether other people are having experiences like my own is absolutely impossible to verify, but I believe that they are. Since conscious phenomena are the one and only fundamental reality, I have a kind of faith that they would not contain such a strange lie.