Suukorak

@, is there still room for one more? I know you guys have started, but it looks like you didn't get too far. I'm creating a character now, I'll have it up for your approval, if I can join, sometime today. Edit: here's the character. Name: Kratr Race: Non-Pony (Bombardier beetle) Gender: Male Link: http://mlpforums.com/page/roleplay-characters/_/kratr-r8031 Personality and Combat Style in the character sheet. Reason for joining: Liberating the Everfree Forest (his home), protecting Zecora.

The ability to see all those vectors and fields in physics. It speeds up experiments, but any regular physicist with a calculator can do it just as well.

@@You Heard Nothing, you make me jealous. I've not spent much time around mountains. You describe them so richly! You should try being a writer, maybe.

Greetings! I'm pretty new here myself, but that doesn't mean I can't make a fellow newcomer welcome! And do tell, what do you like about mountains?

I'm sure we all do, but I'm not convinced that what we are aware of is everything that is in our heads. Then again, if we're not aware of it, perhaps it shouldn't count as being in our heads. Perhaps the "subconscious" or such constructs are an external reality. Maybe a subjective reality, but external all the same. Fascinating thought. This is why I like to talk to people about this. Such amazing things come up that I would have never imagined! And I get to think over my whole philosophy again.

Existence does seem hard to define, though I would most closely define it like this: "x exists" means the same thing as "I perceive x" (whether it's that you see it in front of you, or in memory, or think it, or feel that emotion). Thus, in a certain way, I can say "God does not exist," because I'm not religious and do not sense His presence. But someone else, who can "feel His love in [their] heart," would just as truthfully be able to say "God exists."

Fascinating. It's clearly an interesting idea. I'd like to hear more about reality being inside our minds in particular.

I see that Galileo did believe in an external universe out of which he could try to read. That's a common approach from science to philosophy, I imagine. I've read a bit of Descartes before, and I admit his famous "I think, therefore I am" influenced my ideas. However, he went from there to build up an external reality relying on the concept of a God, which I don't believe in. Therefore I separate from his theories almost directly after that famous saying. Whatever the views of famous, dead men, I'm also interested in your own views. Even if they're not fully formed, I'd like to hear them. After all, we're still alive and we can influence each other in interesting ways. I didn't come here to spout my views, but to hear others'. So thanks for the reference, but I'd still rather have your opinion.

Hey everyone! Just yesterday (when I joined this site, actually! Yay for muffins!) I found a topic about "what happens after you die," and I made a huge rambling post about my metaphysical thoughts. Most of the discussion had become people talking either about religion or decomposition, so I thought maybe we need a more philosophical approach. But philosophy thrives on general questions, so I have generalized it as I felt was natural. The question is: what is the nature of reality? Is it "really" there, or in our head, or something else? Can we ever agree on an objective reality? etc. I'm looking forward to seeing what you all have to say. I'll put my own thoughts in the next post, since this is getting pretty long as it is. Happy philosophizing! Okay, so here's my thoughts on the subject. I did copy/paste the first paragraph from my previous rambling, because I am content to sit back and contemplate my former eloquence on the subject. I've been thinking about this often, and for some time now. Just my philosophical self, avoiding boredom. When I consider this question, the most important aspect I can think of is that we have a severe lack of experience with reality. Our minds and senses are pretty clearly imperfect, and with the very frustrating inability to exchange minds with someone else, we're pretty much stuck in our own flawed world. The important thing about this is that it means we have no reason to believe there's anything other than that world. The only thing that I am certain exists is my own experience. So, although I don't have anything to disprove an external reality, I don't really need it. It is not essential to my life or how I make sense of my world. Therefore, unless I can get some proof of reality, I don't believe in it. This has some pretty alarming implications. The foremost is that, in denying any outside reality, I don't believe any of you exist - or, at least, I have no proof of it. It's very difficult to have more than one person existing in such a powerful relation to the world. All of you could easily be figments of my imagination, and things would seem the same. Of course, you all could probably say the same about me. It's a kind of a paradox, and one I choose to approach by treating everyone as existing the way I do. Maybe it's not completely sound, but it works pretty well. The second implication is that we have more control than we think over reality. There's a lot of talk about how the world is shaped by your approach to it - like the Islamic Sufis saying that people create their own heaven or hell around them. In fact, some used to claim that they were God because they had control of the universe. Impossible (and blasphemous) as that may sound, it seems right to me. I have seen people create themselves a private hell because of their bad attitudes, and I try my best to make my own world a nice one. Those are the immediate implications I can come up with. Feel free to expand on my thinking, or explain your own thoughts. Also, if you have an idea for a different question, let me know!

265866 @ Oh, ok.

265860 @Vinyl: That must've been frustrating. But also a little encouraging? It means you made a pretty good OC. @Arrow: I've watched a bit of it. @Mirror: Yep. Kopaka from the original Toa.

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265848 Yeah, I thought you asked me. Sorry.

265845 I don't know about your profile picture - I don't recognize, and I won't judge oc's. Your sig is awesome though.

265842 You're asking me?

265838 Ah. Also, I like your profile picture, basement.

265836 Hello.

265834 I meant keep up with the numbers.

265831 Edit: dang, how do you guys do this all day?

265829 Hello. Trying to find things to avoid my homework. This was my first answer.

@@Tanos, good point. Though it would have to be "ma famille m'aidait," because that's how you conjugate it in third person (the subject being "ma famille"). Somehow it still feels more natural to me in passe simple. Unless you wanted to just use the present? Sorry, I'm a little rusty in French, I haven't studied it in... dang, must be nearly two years now.

I would change a few more things. For the final sentence: Ma famille m'a beaucoup aide dans la vie, et je suis tres reconnaissant. @@Tanos, hope you don't mind if I used a few of your suggestions, and improved a few. Good luck!