How can you be sure you are not dead?

[valis]

Discuss.

[Zuni]

1. I think therefore I am

[MrScorpio]

5. I like the way you think!

Got that equal wavelength thingy going!

[Zuni]

11. exactly, but you said it in latin

I liked reading DesCartes in Philosophy

[Ladyhawk]

53. But maybe you're only thinking you are when, in fact, you actually aren't.

?

[MrScorpio]

2. Cogito ergo sum

Yeah, that should do it

[mark414]

6. Descartes is sitting at a bar

the bartender asks, "Another drink Descartes?"

"I think not," he says, and *POOF* disappears

[Crazy Guggenheim]

10. I haven't heard that one in years! But it still hurts.

[MrScorpio]

17. Heisenberg was late, speeding home for dinner.

He had just left his girlfriend's house. Just then, the cops pulled him over. Just when he got his speeding ticket, his wife calls him on his cell phone. She said to him, "Do you know where you are?"

He said, "No, Baby I can't. But I can tell you how fast I was going."

[Crazy Guggenheim]

19. Beautiful!!

[mark414]

21. Did you hear that George Berkeley died?

His girlfriend stopped seeing him!

[MrScorpio]

27. When Heidegger wants to tell you something

He just doesn't give you a piece of his mind... He gives you all of it.

[ghostsofgiants]

46. Philosophy humour...

Nice.

[leftofthedial]

3. the smell

[petronius]

35. Uh oh...

...I may have a problem.

[leftofthedial]

51. well if I was dead

the smell would be a, er, umm, dead giveaway

[wtmusic]

4. Welcome to hell, valis

Make yourself at home...you'll be with us for a while :evilgrin:

[valis]

15. Noooooooooooo!

:P

[Crazy Guggenheim]

7. All depends on how you define death? However if .......

you are "conscious" then you are not.

[AlienGirl]

8. Depends on what you mean by "dead"

And by "you."

Tucker

[neweurope]

9. But I'm not sure at all.

*headscratch* I wonder, I wonder...


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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

[Jamastiene]

12. Smell yourself.

A.) If you smeLL bad, take a shower. If you stiLL smeLL bad after that, get some antibiotics. If you stiLL smeLL bad after that, bury yourseLf.

B.) If you smeLL ok. Wait a few hours and sniffagain. If you still smeLL ok, you're not dead.

[Spinzonner]

13. Why should I care

It appears there is nothing I can do about it

[EstimatedProphet]

14. I see you've been reading VALIS, Valis

[AlienGirl]

16. sounds more like UBIK to me...

[valis]

20. UBIK! UBIK! UBIK! UBIK!

You a fan?

[valis]

22. PK Dick was a damn good philosopher!!!

Many of his books are like a theology treatise!

[El Fuego]

34. Yes, UBIK!!!!!!!

It is one of my favorite books of all time! It made me a PKD fan, long before Hollywood discovered him. And I think Three Stigmata is one of the most brilliant novels ever.

[AlienGirl]

37. The Empire never ended

You are a child of Earth and starry heaven. Remember your birth.

Tucker

[valis]

38. Finally somebody I can talk too!!!

:)

[AlienGirl]

41. Did you know Khephra?

He and I talked a lot about these things...

Tucker

[valis]

43. Nope, I haven't been here that long...

Was he the guy who passed away recently?

[AlienGirl]

44. Yeah...

I miss him.

Tucker

[valis]

45. That is freaky... Did you read "What If Our World Is Their Heaven?"

It is really freaky how his writing almost predicted his own life...

[AlienGirl]

47. Haven't read that one yet..

[EstimatedProphet]

29. That too

And the Divine Invasion as well

[valis]

31. My favorite one!

[Mugweed]

32. I have all PKD's stuff

Been reading it since I was about 11. That is the BEST, despite many of his stories being butchered into blockbuster films.

I think, therefore I dose.

[valis]

39. Yup... Hope "A Scanner Darkly" won't be another hack job..

[EstimatedProphet]

49. My favorite is "A Maze of Death"

I read it when I was a kid, and it blew me away. PKD set up a completely believable, concrete world, and in the last chapter flipped it over and showed us what was REALLY happenning. I was stunned! I still have never seen anyone else write a book like that.

[valis]

50. I have not read that one. I'm going through some of the early

novels now. After reading the latest, long ones.

[Nikia]

18. When I feel dead in the morning

I am always sure to look in the mirror, pinch or scratch myself, and subject myself to both hot and cold shower water. If I pass those tests, I figure that I am actually alive and not a ghost.

[havocmom]

23. Some people wouldn't annoy me as much if I were not alive.

So when I wake up each morning, I go calmly about until someone annoys me then I roll up my sleeves and dig into things. Most days, some fool comes along and reaffirms my system.

[nuxvomica]

24. Well I'm not in heaven, that's for damn sure

And there are dogs and cats around so I'm not in hell. Process of elimination.

[neweurope]

28. That was great *smile*

You're right, I'm probably not dead, either; there are horses and dogs and cats around. Butterflies, too.

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Bush to The Hague!

[Jade Fox]

25. I see dead people.....

so I must be alive, right? :crazy:

[Senior citizen]

26. Actually, I'm sure that I am dead.

When I was young I used to see lots of people who were dead walking around.

Now I'm just like them.

[kedrys]

30. Because I'm snoring loud enough to wake myself up. :P n/t

[El Fuego]

33. OMG! Maybe DU is the afterlife, and we're all...

AAAAAAaaaaaaaah!!!!!!!!!

[valis]

36. Perhaps Skinner is ...... Noooooooooooooo!

:)

[El Fuego]

42. *gasp* Noooooooooooo!!!!

:wow:

(Bad dream, must wake up...)

[u4ic]

40. Well, I'd be thinner, for one thing

;-)

[ghostsofgiants]

48. If I am in fact dead, what does it matter?

[kittykatkoffeekup]

52. "Die" not checked off on my to do list

[Neoma]

54. I don't care if I'm dead or alive.

I'm fucking here.

Though I'd think death would be a heck of alot more fun.

[Borgnine]

55. I have these weird thoughts sometimes.

Especially when I'm in public and people seem to be ignoring me or looking right through me as if I weren't there. I start to wonder if I died in a car accident on the way there and now my confused, invisible spirit is wandering around thinking its still alive.