--- In [email protected], "mathatbrahman"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> ---Re: What is existence?
> Flanagan: "I exist"
> That doesn't answer the question. Nor did DeCartes give a cogent
> statement when he said "I think therefore I am".
> Donkeys exist too, as well as rocks; but the "I" in "I exist"
> supplies us only with a pronoun, not any information in regard to
> existence "in itself".
>
I'm sorry but I am really not into philosophical questions. The
original question I posed, "what is 'the future'?", was meant to be
a counterpoint to the idea that Self realized people weren't
supposed to, or couldn't, predict the future. Since there is no
future, or past, for the Self, I asked the question. I've enjoyed
the responses, but the answers to the question now posed, "What is
existence?" is self-evident, and not all that interesting. If I
want to know what existence is, I'll eat a peach or look at the moon
or take a deep breath, or...
