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               Outbreak Magazine Issue #8 - Article 5 of 14
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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.

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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.