If someone is solipsistic then they will adhere to solipsism principles. These centre around the idea that only the person holding these views is certain to have a mind as it cannot be proven that anyone else can think.

Solipsism, the belief that only one's own mind is sure to exist, has been challenged by philosophers and psychologists through various arguments and evidence. Philosophers have pointed out logical flaws in solipsistic reasoning, such as the inability to explain the existence of other minds and the external world. Psychologists have conducted studies showing the importance of social interactions and relationships in shaping our understanding of reality, which contradicts the solipsistic view. Overall, the consensus among experts is that solipsism is not a valid or tenable philosophical position.

Specifically, worshiping something other than God, or making an image for that purpose.

Less literally, this commandment also hints:

- not to be solipsistic or full of oneself (self-worship)

- not to put one's trust ("belief") in money, or people, or anything other than God.

Probably Ugghh the Caveman. Isn't it OBVIOUS that the Earth is in the center and everything else moves around it? Can't you see that WITH YOUR OWN EYES?

The problem, of course, is that we're right here and we see everything from our own perspective. To most people, MY city - in fact, MY HOUSE! - is at the center of the universe, and it takes education and considerable thought to break ourselves of that solipsistic notion. (World travel also helps.)

The Early Greek and Babylonian astronomers believed that Athens (or Babylon) was at the center of the world; in fact, the World Sea was named because it was in the middle of the world; Medi = middle, terra = ground, so "Mediterranean" means "Middle of the World". But when watching the stars and planets, the math didn't quite work out. So by about 300 BC Aristarchus of Samos was ready to declare that the SUN was the middle of the universe, which still wasn't quite correct.

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20JULY1969 by W.W. Cooper

They made it, we all made it, just a bit

like vikings leaving runes and little more.

taking the lesser light where God placed it

to show ourselves what a heaven's for.

They loped like divings uited kangaroos

over that sterile world of one night stands,

driving moon bugs and golf balls to amuse

the children, while the stars slipped through our hands.

They're gone now to their shrinks and shrunken space.

The praise is theirs; it's ours to wonder why

the world's still flat and dreams are out of grace

So I, believing less each summer, pry

open that lost last year to see the bright

earth jewel smooth and blue in velvet night.

(Analog magazine, 1979 if memory serves)

~

ODE TO ALSEP

With all the world waiting

We turned our eyes skyward.

Remember that day when we all looked through

Our electric windows on the universe,

Seeing old spheres from a new point of view?

Three times again, and again, and again,

Descending on dancing flames,

They scurried, slow-motion, through ancient dust

Who still now remembers their names?

They did the unthinkable, achieved the impossible,

Went where none had preceded, and more.

"Ho-hum! ...another launch, you say?

Is football on Channel Four?"

Mechanical colonists left behind

When we blasted back home in our ships

Drew life in their bellies from shattering atoms,

Energizing electronic chips.

They sensed the heat of ancient fires,

Moon-embers, banked deep inside.

They felt the star-bits streaming,

And the rumbling silent tide.

ALSEP voices, talking to Earth

In chattering bits and bytes

Sent their colonial treasures back

Through the lunar days and nights.

They measured the limb-shocked solar winds,

Changing the charges in sputtered lands,

And vibrating signals crossed the void,

Twitching inked fingers on metal hands.

The footprints and tire-tracks, unchanging, remain.

Like paths to the future, they glisten.

Solipsistic sentinals converse with themselves,

But there's nobody left who can listen.

George Hastings

October 1, 1977

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yes! Anything they are accusing you of, they are doing themselves

In the narcissist's surrealistic world, even language is pathologized. It mutates into a weapon of self defence, a verbal fortification, a medium without a message, replacing words with duplicitous and ambiguous vocables.

Narcissists (and, often, by contagion, their unfortunate victims) don't talk, or communicate. They fend off. They hide and evade and avoid and disguise. In their planet of capricious and arbitrary unpredictability, of shifting semiotic and semantic dunes - they perfect the ability to say nothing in lengthy, Castro-like speeches.

The ensuing convoluted sentences are arabesques of meaninglessness, acrobatics of evasion, lack of commitment elevated to an ideology. The narcissist prefers to wait and see and see what waiting brings. It is the postponement of the inevitable that leads to the inevitability of postponement as a strategy of survival.

It is often impossible to really understand a narcissist. The evasive syntax fast deteriorates into ever more labyrinthine structures. The grammar tortured to produce the verbal Doppler shifts essential to disguise the source of the information, its distance from reality, the speed of its degeneration into rigid "official" versions.

Buried under the lush flora and fauna of idioms without an end, the language erupts, like some exotic rash, an autoimmune reaction to its infection and contamination. Like vile weeds it spread throughout, strangling with absent minded persistence the ability to understand, to feel, to agree, to disagree and to debate, to present arguments, to compare notes, to learn and to teach.

Narcissists, therefore, never talk to others - rather, they talk at others, or lecture them. They exchange subtexts, camouflage-wrapped by elaborate, florid, texts. They read between the lines, spawning a multitude of private languages, prejudices, superstitions, conspiracy theories, rumours, phobias and hysterias. Theirs is a solipsistic world - where communication is permitted only with oneself and the aim of language is to throw others off the scent or to obtain narcissistic supply.

This has profound implications. Communication through unequivocal, unambiguous, information-rich symbol systems is such an integral and crucial part of our world - that its absence is not postulated even in the remotest galaxies which grace the skies of science fiction. In this sense, narcissists are nothing short of aliens. It is not that they employ a different language, a code to be deciphered by a new Freud. It is also not the outcome of upbringing or socio-cultural background.

It is the fact that language is put by Narcissists to a different use - not to communicate but to obscure, not to share but to abstain, not to learn but to defend and resist, not to teach but to preserve ever less tenable monopolies, to disagree without incurring wrath, to criticize without commitment, to agree without appearing to do so. Thus, an "agreement" with a narcissist is a vague expression of intent at a given moment - rather than the clear listing of long term, iron-cast and mutual commitments.

The rules that govern the narcissist's universe are loopholed incomprehensibles, open to an exegesis so wide and so self-contradictory that it renders them meaningless. The narcissist often hangs himself by his own verbose Gordic knots, having stumbled through a minefield of logical fallacies and endured self inflicted inconsistencies. Unfinished sentences hover in the air, like vapour above a semantic swamp.

In the case of the inverted narcissist, who was suppressed and abused by overbearing caregivers, there is the strong urge not to offend. Intimacy and inter-dependence are great. Parental or peer pressures are irresistible and result in conformity and self-deprecation. Aggressive tendencies, strongly repressed in the social pressure cooker, teem under the veneer of forced civility and violent politeness. Constructive ambiguity, a non-committal "everyone is good and right", an atavistic variant of moral relativism and tolerance bred of fear and of contempt - are all at the service of this eternal vigilance against aggressive drives, at the disposal of a never ending peacekeeping mission.

With the classic narcissist, language is used cruelly and ruthlessly to ensnare one's enemies, to saw confusion and panic, to move others to emulate the narcissist ("projective identification"), to leave the listeners in doubt, in hesitation, in paralysis, to gain control, or to punish. Language is enslaved and forced to lie. The language is appropriated and expropriated. It is considered to be a weapon, an asset, a piece of lethal property, a traitorous mistress to be gang raped into submission.

With cerebral narcissists, language is a lover. The infatuation with its very sound leads to a pyrotechnic type of speech which sacrifices its meaning to its music. Its speakers pay more attention to the composition than to the content. They are swept by it, intoxicated by its perfection, inebriated by the spiralling complexity of its forms. Here, language is an inflammatory process. It attacks the very tissues of the narcissist's relationships with artistic fierceness. It invades the healthy cells of reason and logic, of cool headed argumentation and level headed debate.