°Û °Û ÞÜ ±Û °Û °Û ÜÛÛ ÛÜ ±Û ²Û°ÛÛÛÛß°Û ÜÜÜ ±Û ÜÜ ÜÛÛÛÜ°ÛßßßÛ°Û °Û ÛÛ ° ÛÛ±Û ±Û ÛÛ ±ÛÛßßßÛܱÛÛßß°ÛÜÜÜß °Û°ÛÛÛ ÛÛ ° ÛÛ±Û ±Û ÛÛ ±Û °Û±Û °ÛÜ °ÜÛßßÛ°Û °Û ßÛ ÛÛß °ÛÛÛ ßÛÛÜ°ÛßÛÛÛÛß±Û °ÛÛÛß°ÛÜÜÛ²°Û °Û Outbreak Magazine Issue #8 - Article 5 of 14 '~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~' ############################## ## ## ## 42 Thoughts ## ## ## ## By ## ## ## ## GPC ## ## ## ############################## Here upon lies a random collection of quotes, mumblings and thoughts from my mind, enjoy. Does the Spanish dude need a creator?, and if so who created him? If you go back in time are you there? And if you are could you control yourself or are there two uncontrolled versions of you? If you appear conscious as your future self do you replace your past self? Where does your past self go? Where do you go if you cannot control either the one or two of yourself and, do you know when you get to where you go? If there is only one unified theory it is just a set of rules and inflations on which we base reality - Stephen Hawking We have more to fear from those that think they understand us than those who know they don't - Martin Luther King Jnr. America are calling these Taliban fighters 'unlawful combatants' because they are fighting without declaring war and are therefore not prisoners of war and therefore do not have to be treated according to the Geneva Convention. However when America fought in Vietnam they hadn't declared war either. America claimed that it had sent 'military advisors' however these 'military advisors' were incidentally US army troops, dressed in US army uniform and armed by the US army. Technically, these soldiers were also unlawful combatants but campaigned for the release of many 'prisoners of war' during the Vietnam war which they claimed the Vietnamese had captured and were treating without accordance to the current laws on 'prisoners of war'. These soldiers were released and hailed as heroes by the American people yet they feel it justified to keep several Taliban soldiers locked in cages that even animal rights people would not let animals stay in. There has to be a change in the bureaucracy and red tape that dominate politics today. Even the simplest task requires months of planning and countless meetings. Governments are too afraid to do what they know is right for fear of offending people and loosing power. If there is an infinite number of parallel universes there is an identical one of me, writing this, right now, but one thing is different in their world maybe but they may not even be aware of this so, to them, at least, this is an identical world. But will they also be thinking this? This also leads to the possibility that are countless millions of me, doing this, an infinite number. A microscopic dot on a microscopic dot. ********** Solipsism - Your mind is the only thing that exists and therefore everything else is a product of your imagination. Scepticism - There may or may not be an external world, and if there is it may or may not be completely different from how it seems to you - there's no way for you to tell. How do you know that you didn't just come into existence a few minutes ago, complete with all your present memories? You would be assuming the reality of the past to prove the reality of the past. What is the basis of your idea that everything has to have an explanation? It's true that in your normal, non-philosophical conception of the world, processes like those which go in your mind are caused, at least in part, by other things outside them. Science is just as vulnerable as suggestion. How can we know that the world outside our minds corresponds to our ideas of what would be a good theoretical explanation of our observations? Can we establish the reality of our sense experiences in relation to the external world? Is the idea of external reality that no one could ever discover meaningless? A dream has to be something that you can wake up from in order to discover that you were asleep. But, if you never knew you were asleep in the first place does the dream become your reality and if so what becomes of the reality where you are asleep? Is it possible to be in two realities at once but only to be aware of one? Can the state of two realities actually exist? If so, is it feasible to be able to experience both realities with knowledge of the other? If the world was made by your mind, and this may be so because you only know that you have a mind, think about the objects and people that inhabit your world. If you did create them, why? Does everyone serve a purpose? If you have never been to a specific place in our reality yet you are told it exists, does it? Just how far can pictures on the television or words on a page go to prove the existence of a place or object if you have never seen it yourself? Do things that you haven't experienced actually exist? Is the fact that exist to others irrelevant? If you believe that your mind is the only one in the world is it not entirely acceptable to wonder if it is not a little improbable that the whole world was created as a product of your mind? If the world is created by you, is it already formed or do parts of it form as you travel to them? If the last case is true then it is therefore possible to escape your world by 'thinking' your way out of it. Is that surely not a logical impossibility? It is said that solipsism is a very lonely viewpoint because no other human would actually exist, just images / representations of them. However, to say this is somewhat of a contradiction. This is because there may be no physical humans for you to interact with but there are an infinite number of images / representations for you to interact with. They may not be real but if you don't know your mind was the only one you would think of them as normal humans and more importantly wouldn't question their reality or otherwise. Is ignorance really bliss? I wonder if any of you even got to here. Oh well. Until next time... GPC wishes you well.