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Quote by: Jack  It's an extreme example perhaps, but an existentialist would say that we cannot to an absolute certainty say that North America was here before we were born or will be here after we die. How could anyone convince me that everything I perceive might be a construction of my own mind. There is no one we will ever know as well as we know ourselves. Everyone else could be a delusion. Even my physical body could be a part of the delusion. Maybe I'm a huge, deformed brain sitting in a beaker in some other reality making all this up. | I doubt I could tell any difference. Quote: |
Would that be an unreasonable possibility?
| One description certainly. Any other entities in the same boat?
If the terrain and the map do not agree, follow the terrain.
When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become a new race. |