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What does it mean to 'exist'?
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What does it mean to 'exist'?
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What is the difference between "being" as a noun and "being" as a verb?
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>>808272
from an epistemological standpoint, a 'being' is a physical entity.
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>>808272
I'm not trying to be funny, but you will get an extremely accurate and comprehensive answer to that question by looking up 'being' in a dictionary.
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>>808265

Division Bell worst album
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bSgjYv9Seo

This man cannot describe it better.
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wouldnt know what that is and dont care, someone else elsewhere is living my life for me
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>>808265

Is that Dave Gilmour?
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>>808309
Excuse us?
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>>809483
Yes
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>>808272
One is a Substantive, the other is a Gerund.

Substantive: We are all Beings of Light
Gerund: It's not about Feeling it, it's about Being it.

This is just grammar. ~
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>>811833
Actually the example for the gerund was shit, disregard that I suck cocks etc.

Maybe something like:
There's the Doing of an action, and the Being of a thing.
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>>808272
Noun
>anon is a living breathing being

Verb
>anon is being a faggot.
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>>808265
To perceive and formulate a construct of reality.
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>>808265
To feel
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>>808265

exist in my thought means to be self aware.

I think therefore I am

But one must look deeper. Say if you are asleep or dreaming are you still existing? Or if a tree falls into a ground and nobody notices. Does that tree still exist?
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>>808265

you're a clump of matter organizing itself
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Existence is hypostasis. It is the underlying support of being.

>>808272
Nothing. I AM, etc. To be God, and the being God, is the same, just different grammar.
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To exist means to have a meaning.
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>>808265
to be mathematical. every scientist will tell you this.
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>>808265
TICKING AWAY THE MOMENTS MAKE UP THE DULL DAY
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>>808265
.
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>>808496
You can't be a modern progressive rock band without sampling Alan Watts
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>>808265
The sensation of existing is found within the subject-object. The subject being "I" the object being whatever the "I" is focusing on - whether that be an objective object (table, bell) or a subjective object (sensation, emotion, thought) one can only focus on one thing at a time. With further experience one should find that the "I" doesn't exist at all, but only the object. That is - the sense of existing is felt only in term of the object in focus. Also, saged.
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