Senselessness!

February 8, 2007 12:31pm CST
We know the world around us thru our 5 senses. For example, if u r holding a strawberry in ur hand,u can see the color,can smell, can taste, can feel it,and can hear a sound when u break it. if u were to lose ur sight u can say that it is a thing that tastes good and feels right. If you happen to lose ur senses one by one and finally lose the sense of touch then for u the the strawberry doesn't exist! There is no way for u to know that there is something called a strawberry,similarly all the other things in the world.So if a being exists with 5 other forms of senses, other than ours, for them we wldn't exist!as there is no way for them to percieve us!The world is thus an illusion,we cannot say something exists without percieving it thru our senses, the only thing directly percieved by us is our sense of 'self'. I think this idea is the basic essence of hinduism. What do u say?
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• India
1 May 07
excellent arguements that you have presented. really thought provoking. are these your own? however, i am not sure whether you can conclude that this world is unreal, perhaps there are other ways of perceiving this world, thats it.