Note to Self.....

Note to Self .....

Be yourself.
People don't have to like you, but you don't have to care.

illtellhim, I have cme to admire your persistence!

C'mon then Maw ... your turn ...

I got it Elegran

Yes Elegran - funny!

Does this have to be self help or can I post anything??
Because I have been thinking: if I don't post on Gransnet, do I actually exist?

Oh we all GOT it but I also know how meticulous Elegran is in her use of language.
How about this as an illustration of illtellhim's post of 07.45

Lemongrove Philosophy alert. Do any of us REALLY exist at all? Does ANYBODY OR ANYTHING really exist outside our minds? Is the universe just something constructed in the imagination?

It has to be the imagination of YOU, the person reading this in front of your screen. There is no-one else, nothing else, no earth, no sun, no stars, just a solitary consciousness creating everything and everyone else.

Can you PROVE any different? Your senses tell you that you are sitting in a chair, seeing a room, smelling the flowers, hearing the radio, tasting the coffee, but your senses all operate through your brain. You hear what people say, watch TV, read the papers, learn about the outside world, but what if the same brain is inventing the words and pictures?

Best not to think too hard about it!

?make a great film wouldn't it? Along the lines of The Matrix, but even weirder.
I type words on Gransnet, therefore I am.
Are you in my dream, or am I in yours?

I think that I am about to get the bus into town to look for a new jacket, but in reality I may still be in bed, or indeed, not be at all ( so maybe I shouldn't be wasting my money on buying clothes.)

It has probably been done already, with Patrick Stewart in the lead. (Lead not led - but maybe . . .)

I'm really scared now.?

Just as, Elegran, we may THINK someone is who they say they are.....but who knows if the light is on when the fridge is shut.

Don't panic, annsixty, if you invented Gransnet with all these lovely people to chat to, you will never be alone!

Maw We could always just leave the fridge door shut - but then we'd never know.

But, what if Ann only thinks she invented GN? I think I did!

But what about all the unlovely ones Elegran ? ?

Uninvent the unlovely ones and keep the fridge door closed!

kitty so you must have invented ann and her conviction that SHE invented it. But you can't have, because I did, AND I invented you and your invention of ann

But, who invented you Elegran?

I invented ALL OF YOU!

Man looking out of upper window into darkness: "Who's that down there?"

Man in garden: "Who's that up there saying Who's that down there?"

From above: "Who's that down there saying Who's that up there saying Who's that down there?"

"Who's that up there saying Who's that down there saying Who's that up there saying Who's that down there?"

"Who's that down there saying Who's that up there saying Who's that down there saying Who's that up there saying Who's that down there?"

etc ad nauseam.

Now, my Father used to say that Elegran only it was a man shouting into a cellar ( possibly at The Argy Bargy Bar.)
The question is, who said it first?
I am prepared to believe that in an alternative Universe, you are actually my Father.

Little lamb, who made thee
Dost thou know who made thee?
Gave thee life & bid thee feed.
By the stream & o'er the mead?
William Blake, The Lamb, songs of Innocence

"My mother," answered Telemakhos, "tells me I am son to Odysseus, but it is a wise child that knows his own father."
Homer, Odyssey

lemongrove Maybe your father was my father. That was one of his quotes - sometimes the cellar, sometimes the window.

He also said "Who dat down dere?" but that is no longer PC