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Thread started 01/30/04 1:49pm

Janfriend

How many of you are Solipsists?

Solipsism
1 Theory that the self is the only thing that can be known and verified
2 Theory or view that the self is the only reality

hmmm
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Reply #1 posted 01/30/04 1:51pm

cborgman

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holy shit!

eek

i swear i am not making this up, i talk about this in the show that had it's final performance last night. in the letter preceding it, the mother character says "and i still insist solipsistic means pretentious" and in my respone i say "PS - solipsism is the theory that self is the only reality, i looked it up"
Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely. - Lord Acton
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Reply #2 posted 01/30/04 2:48pm

Janfriend

cborgman said:

holy shit!

eek

i swear i am not making this up, i talk about this in the show that had it's final performance last night. in the letter preceding it, the mother character says "and i still insist solipsistic means pretentious" and in my respone i say "PS - solipsism is the theory that self is the only reality, i looked it up"


eek
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Reply #3 posted 01/31/04 2:54pm

Anxiety

Shouldn't this be in the Prince forum? wink
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Reply #4 posted 01/31/04 2:56pm

Janfriend

Anxiety said:

Shouldn't this be in the Prince forum? wink


lol
I was thinking of titling it "Is Prince a Solipsist?"
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Reply #5 posted 01/31/04 3:26pm

Aerogram

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I had to give up being a solipsist when it became clear I couldn't pronounce it without spiiting.
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Reply #6 posted 01/31/04 4:15pm

teller

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Janfriend said:

Solipsism
1 Theory that the self is the only thing that can be known and verified
2 Theory or view that the self is the only reality

hmmm

Just because we're the only ones that know the self from the most intimate perspective of "being" the self does not imply that everything (and everybody) else isn't knowable to an objective degree.
Fear is the mind-killer.
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