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it isn’t much to remember that we are here

what that entails is what we forget.

if you don’t want to say that only you exist, then you’ve got to take a position on what everyone else is. Are you among them or excluded from their collection? How could it possibly be the case that everyone is living in the same way that I am. Locked in their bodies, never knowing how they came to find themselves here, or what the future holds for them. If time is just an axis why is it that we cannot move about it? If there be more dimensions why is it that we cannot occupy them? If there be more colors why only this many is it that we can see? And if I cannot ask these sorts of things, what ought I be asking? If you think you know, you should be ashamed of yourself.
A limitless universe will hear not of your demands. If I cannot take myself to be capable then it is only an increase of folly to suppose I have found someone else who is. To doubt oneself is to destroy the only mechanism available to us. I cannot say I trust someone else more than myself in offering me answers, since I am the one doing the trusting, and therefore all sense of reliability bottlenecks at the reliability I take myself to have in discovering truth. The trust I have for scientists is necessarily a fraction of the trust I have for myself. There is a way to die while others go on interacting with a body they call by your name: to deny ones conscience. So be honest about your ego and be honest about your err. There isn’t anything this world has which you have special access to.

One does not believe a thing they do not take to be the case.