to those who have not met anyone here...

[2600]

Well, somebody could be assuming all the other identities, but why bother with such a meaningless pursuit?

I know I'm real, at any rate.

As I read the various posts, a lot of different personalities have emerged. So, if any one source was responsible, it'd have to be one screwed-up individual with way too much time on his/her hands, or a program written by someone (screwed-up) with way too much time on his/her hands.

I prefer to think that you are all actual people, with way too much time on your hands.

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Of course we prefer to believe our perceptions (the evidence overwhelmingly supports them, and moreover is corroborated by each other's accounts), but if the reality was that someone had too much time on their hands, then "I know I'm real at any rate.", might not be much consolation, when you find out that might be only partially true. While it might only freak you out a little bit if you found out you were talking to yourself in here, consider finding out your entire life was a deception- of even who "you" are.

Because when you "wake up" from the chatroom, who "you" are is still the same, only the perceptions of your surroundings change. But what if, for instance you wake up and realize everything you've lived, everything you remember has been literally a dream. Not only has everything you lived been an illusion, all your memories dreams, but what you thought was "the real you", was not.

So let's say you are a gob of intelligent high energy plasma clinging to a iron cliff isolated on a distant planet, you being the only intelligent life in the universe. You've woken up from the "human life", where there were people, and jobs, and weed, and computers. But now none of that is relevant. You say "oh yeah, this is my existence. wow, what a crazy dream, I was a human, whatever that is. well, good to be back clinging to the iron cliff." But you would still have no justification to say "this is real," or "this is the real me," because the only self evident truth is your consciousness, not what it's seated in.

I used the chat forum example as a microcosm to represent the greater application, because the methods of "trickery" more salient (it doesn't have to be a dream, or a matrix, or something far fetched enough to fool our senses, just what appears on the screen).

[Reefer Rogue]

Ok, i admit it i'm the box

[NowhereMan]

actually none of us are real
we are all figments of imaginations
or wierd dreams?
and some are fucking nightmares

joking

ive met folks face to face that i met on line here(and marihemp.com)
they sure smoke dope like REAL people
thats not saying some have not reg'd lots of names
peace