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How do we know that we actually exist

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and that we are real?

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Sure, we can look at ourselves [br]in the mirror, pinch ourselves

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or bang our heads against the wall,

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But even that, could just be [br]something that we imagine.

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However, how are we able [br]to imagine something,

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if we don't exist?

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And that's how we get to the [br]crux of the matter:

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When we question reality, [br]if what we are seeing

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is real or not, there is always us.

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That isn't up for discussion.

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But how can we be [br]certain of our existence?

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Precisely:

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To be or not be,[br]that is the question!

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The concept of `being' has the broadest [br]definition by far,

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because it relates to [br]everything conceivable.

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Relating to our house, our boat, [br]our investment advisor

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and, of course, ourselves!

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"Everything that is conceivable,"[br]therefore also means:

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everything that "is not".

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And all of that combined [br]is infinite!

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Boldly stated: [br]nothing exists outside of being,

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as everything that exists [br]is part of being.

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But that is only half the battle

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Because being isn't [br]equal to existence.

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In the Middle Ages, a distinction [br]was made, that "existence",

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which was necessary was the[br]"necessary existence".

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That which was essential for [br]everyone and everything

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was the basis for all existence

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and was naturally named God.

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There where the necessary lies, [br]the unnecessary isn't far removed.

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Thus the 2nd kind of the existence [br]was defined as "not necessary"...

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simply things which nobody needs!

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USB ashtrays, inflatable cell phone [br]holders, breakfast eggplants,

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pasta in a cooking bag,[br]microwave slippers.... okay.

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Besides that which no one needs,[br]there is also the existence

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of that which is impossible:

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the "impossible existence".

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Does that mean that God[br]is unable to create a boulder

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that he himself cannot lift!!!

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Then how can something exist [br]that is more powerful

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than the necessary existence?

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Kant then came up with sensuality and experience...

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his sources of understanding!

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Should that then mean,

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that things appear to exist, [br]as we experience them.

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His colleague Hegel saw it like this:

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The unity of essence [br]and appearance,

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of essence and existence is reality.

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So, the being must appear, [br]then being is existence

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and the existence is being....[br]Uh…Wait a moment

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So, to summarise:

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the existence to which the being [br]attributes itself is the essential being.

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Simply put, the existence.

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Kierkegaard saw it differently yet again [br]and thus

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became the founder of the [br]philosophy of existence:

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"Being itself, to which the being behaves[br]in a particular way

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and always somehow behaves, [br]we call existence".

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By this he means that this existence[br]is quite sufficient.

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It relates only to itself and [br]not to a great absolute.

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I am me and I am responsible [br]for getting along with myself.

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What else is …., I don't care!

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So much to existence.

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And to not exists at all?

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Martin Walser once said:

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"Nothing is true without[br]its opposite" Whoa!

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So, it's that simple then.

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