What is existence? Simply put it is a state of being versus not being. If you are reading this then you exist and what you are reading exists, what you are reading it on is exists on and on etcetera. In regards to this, I will discuses the argument “I could be imaging all this, so nothing is really proven to exist”. The big roadblock for the argument is that it is nothing more than a philosophical angle in the first place, given the fact that we operate in the world under the given assumption that generally things are, as we perceive. However, you can expand the argument to the imagined is immaterial and there by excluding it as existing. If you believe that could have merit your are mistaken, What ever you may imagine is by doing so brought into existence because at the very least you can interact with it and since you can not interact with that which does not exist it must exist. “I think there for I am” confirms that you exist, therefore anything you imagine exists regardless as to whether it is immaterial or actual or whether you manifest it physically such and a writer or artist does or tell it to other verbally (transferring immaterial from you to immaterial within the listener) or if you just keep it to yourself . The words you read here are technically just as immaterial as your thoughts, as the internet is “virtual”, the only difference being that the internet is accessible to an unlimited number of people, where as your thoughts are only accessible to you unless in some way you take action to pass them on to others. All the preceding leads me to be confident in saying; the core of the argument that something being immaterial means it does not exist falls flat. The only angle left for the argument would be semantics and that is overtly desperate and pointless. Being that I want to keep this short, that covers the core of how I see the statement/argument (or others like it) “I could be imaging all this, so nothing is really proven to exist”, it is just seemingly clever bullshit, but bullshit non the less.
Cyanidal
Lightless burning candle scenes, exposing suicidal dreams
With true denials ever madly, bleeding through ever gladly
In my ear the worthless squawk, putrid air of mindless talk
Forsaken, so called tasteful, the improvidence of the wasteful
Given bitter cancerous caring, as passion is without sharing
Eyes sheltered, waterless, are true when empty and pitiless
In blinding blackness of the sun, see the madness to be spun
Insanity’s love for crippled saneness, truths lost in its plainness
Weakness given to the weary, paleness of whom sees so clearly
Safe in covers they are under, given candy of worthless wonder
Never are, broken tears to mending, nor the solace of an ending
Left to choices of what pays, with dogged fears of forgotten days
Callous eyes of selfish hounds, no regard beyond their bounds
Caught in leashes veiled strictness, answers to their blind witness
Accolade to one who dances, with out music to false romances
Cluttering clear and open spaces, giving rise to imagined graces
Invisible minds sing to masses, the merry sheep with empty glasses
Not existing under foot or under way, when to stop, is to run away
In sunny sightlessness, bestowing fools with vacant cheerfulness
When lives are like reins to an empty bridle, truths are cyanidal.