Monday 17 May 2010

The solipsist

The other day, while I was looking for some piece of information, to write about on the blog, I found something that surprised me. According to some experts, a solipsist person is someone who believes that himself is the only thing that really exists, and that other people and the Universe in general exist only in his imagination, and if he quit imagining them they would cease to exist. It s very difficult to explain, isn´t it? .Anyway, Fredric Brown who is a famous writer, wrote a short story about a solipsist person. In this story Walter B, Jehovah, who is the main character, had been a solipsist person all his life but he didn´t know it. One day, he became in a practicing solipsist and within a week he had lost her wife and his job. So he decided to end his life. He tried to kill himself, but he couldn´t. On the contrary, he had to be at the Hospital many weeks. There, He considered end it all. Looking out the window, staring up at stars, he wished them out of exist, and they weren’t there anymore. He wished that everything could disappear, The Hospital, people, and the world itself .After that, he found himself suspended in a void. Finally He wished he could disappear too, but nothing happened. Strange he thought, can be a limit to a soliptisism? Suddenly he heard a voice, and Walter B, Jehovah asked, who are you? The voice said, I am the one who created the Universe which you have just willed out of existence. And now that you have taken my place, I can finally cease my own existence. The voice said. But how could I cease to exist? Jehovah asked. And the voice said, wait until somebody really believes what you believed, and then, you will be able to cease your existence. Then voiced disappeared. Walter, B, Jehovah, was alone in the empty space and there was only one thing he could do .He created the heaven and the earth, it took him seven days.
Gocu

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