Thoughts On Solipsism & Humility

What are the chances the world is "real," that this is base reality, when you consider the possibilities? Practically none. 

Solipsism is the dark cloud hanging over all intelligible thought because it can't be discredited, and it has a high probability of being true. It should bury us in humility. It should destroy our ability to move until we gain faith. Only faith can move us beyond the crushing abyss of solipsism and other probable realities and ways of thinking.

Faith is the only way to love because solipsism destroys the possibility of love. We can't meaningfully move without faith because solipsism renders all possible actions equivalent and nonsensical. If I'm writing these words only to myself why would I bother making them intelligible for a reader? There's no one to love if solipsism is true. Unless, I am trinity.

Solipsism can't be disproved because dreams happen, the mind can distort consciousness, the mind can make us forget, and we can experience altered consciousness. Altered consciousness and dreams are common.

If you look around right now it's not hard to imagine the walls shifting and your own mind constructing reality around it.

You say your mind would treat you better if it was constructing everything around you? Then why do people commit suicide? Why do people become drug addicts? The mind can and does abuse itself.

A dream is rarely refuted as unreality within the dream. Why do we assume current reality will be refuted within current reality? If you were living in a self constructed state of consciousness you couldn't expect to know it was "fake" until after you'd died. Reality might be veiled even after death.

We have three choices after realizing that solipsism is likely: (1) accept the dream and live as we want, (2) choose to embrace religion or an alternative explanation, (3) become inactive and lose all meaning. 

Pascal's wager recalculated. It's a matter of odds, but the odds are impossible to accurately calculate. You must simply choose. Christianity still stands at the center of your self created universe even if solipsism is true. Christianity has been placed at the center of history. Everything is dated from its origin. This suggests your mind perceives Christianity as the central paradigm to be contended with.

You can't object that this isn't the case for people born before the Christian era because, from a solipsist perspective, that past, and those people, are just creative backstory. No one is now alive to perceive that existence.

Perhaps there's no logical foundation that leads some people closer to God over the course of their lives. It seems, rather, to be many different forces directing the internal drive that produces faith within these people. People often continue moving towards God even as everything within them falls apart. Maybe it's better to describe this general direction towards God as a spirit rather than a consistent ideology or logically reasonable proposition. Christian doctrines often have little consistent foundation, and they're different from century to century. The only remaining consistency within the uncertain and shifting landscape of ideas, institutions, and beings is a general spiritual force under girding the whole Christian project.

All logical arguments, including those associated with the proof or disproof of God, rely on the underlying assumption that human logic can discover reality. In the end, there's only faith. Faith in logic, God, Jesus, non-solipsism, senses, etc.

Jesus didn't resort to logic. In some cases, he even employed a kind of anti-logic to obscure the truth. He spoke about the Spirit, its work, and its call. There's an in-group and out-group. The in-group is chosen by the Spirit. Logic, as we usually understand it, is unnecessary.

God can't be proven because there are too many statistical probabilities. He can only be perceived through nature and related to through faith and love. Some people can't perceive him, and they're not called by the Spirit. Even if we could "prove" God, we couldn't prove his particular identity or whether he's good or evil. There are too many possible truths. We'd find ourselves back at solipsism wondering if God was really our own mind.