Can you doubt you exist

If we can have faith in the non-visible external, why can't we have non-faith in the visible internal?

How much space has non-faith taken only to leave the faithless shakin?

Can we doubt we exist?

Jessica,

:)Yes I think we can, though it would be more meaningful if we knew what existence was.

Well, we certainly know this much: that unless we exist, we cannot do anything, so we certainly cannot doubt anything, and therefore, we cannot doubt we exist unless we already exist in the first place. So doubting I exist seems to be a self-refuting exercise, since the very attempt to doubt that I exist shows I exist.

The essence of truth is faith in reality and what it presents before you

Thank you for both posts of praise.

Existence is the contrusion of reality with actuality right? I think I must of read that somewhere from this forum though. Can you doubt reality? No ofcourse not, we rely on it for emotion, logic and intellect. The construsion of what existence creates (reality/actuality) is based on the ability to perceive. Is existing not the ability to perceive? I suppose if one were to doubt their own existence that would imply that they had no potential to reality which further implies amoralism of actions and events, suggesting insanity. We don't have to look at Descartes, it's just common sense.
Sure having self doubt is important, I see it as an opposing force to hypocrisy, but the entirety of one's self being doubted is absurd when all the parts that make it up show potential and therefore exist.
Relating to the universe, the entirety of it is questionable of existence but only because it is unknown the full actuality of it's inner parts.

:)You are experience, if it could be said that you experience nothing, then, you are not. Interesting is it not, experience has no identity, it just is, and you are what you experience.

Thanks boagie, I never thought of it that way. But are you saying that you do not exist if you don't experience anything? Are you saying that actuality has not potential, or am I making some assumption that is wrong?
Although I guess if there is no life then nothing exists right?
I don't understand. If you r what u experience then could it be said that experience causes identity.
Oh wait.. I see whats going on. I made the mistake when I only specified existence in a living sense only?:confused:
Existence is what gives potential and potential is what allows for experience?

Thanks boagie, I never thought of it that way. But are you saying that you do not exist if you don't experience anything? Are you saying that actuality has not potential, or am I making some assumption that is wrong?
Although I guess if there is no life then nothing exists right?
I don't understand. If you r what u experience then could it be said that experience causes identity.
Oh wait.. I see whats going on. I made the mistake when I only specified existence in a living sense only?:confused:
Existence is what gives potential and potential is what allows for experience?

I'll say it: If I don't live then no one exists. This thread has been going on some time, but at the risk of repeating myself let me say that what we think of as existing, exists as matter that is very much unaffected by time. We live, and life is the particular form our existence takes. Yet, since humanity is, in one sense at least, immortal, it exists more or less unchanged in time, while we only live and die.

Yes and I completely advocate that. But still, if you do not live then you would still have an effect upon reality and other life, unless all life is wiped out to perceive the influence right?

Holiday:)

:)Life's a holiday on primrose lane, just kidding!!

:)Actuality has limitations imposed by its forms, chaos is without form and so, is of greater potental. Experience does cause identity, but, it is experience of a given context which gives identity, the vitality of the individual is a given by nature, and in someways, may qualify or limit said life force's journey through its defining context. To be manifest, is to have taken on form, form itself is limitation in being, again, chaos is pure potential, because it is without form.