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  1. 08-14-2009, 21:14 #1
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    Default Re: Why does anything exist?

    Quote Originally Posted by Vladimir View Post
    What makes you think we exist at all? I read a good article on the BBC website that claimed our reality is virtual.
    I think there for I am
    When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important and that she feels she would not maim the universe by disposing of him, he at first wishes to throw bricks at the temple, and he hates deeply the fact that there are no bricks and no temples
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    Default Re: Why does anything exist?

    Quote Originally Posted by Lord Winter View Post
    I think there for I am
    Cognito Ergo Sum is a dead end. It can't be extended in any direction; the only thing one can say with reasonable certainty is that he exists.
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