How do you determine existence?

Carl Jung, once responded when asked if he believed in God stated, "No, I do not believe in God, I know him".....I think if you know him, you'll figure that out.
 
Quote from sumosam:

...Ultimately, in the Hindu faith, Buddism, and Gnostic faith (i.e. the precursor to Christianity) all agreed that the world was an illusion. The question is: why the illusion? What is it we are covering over?
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I'm guessing that, apart from being uses as a political device and a proxy for an internal moral compass for an amoral crowd, the thing that religion tries to "cover over" is man's mortality. It seems that a lot of people are sufficiently egomaniacal to believe in eternal life. They simply refuse to share the fate of road kill or their dinner. And so, there is ceremony, pomp and circumstance to "cover over" man's limited life. The downside is that, while it gives people the foolish hope of a "beyond," it also causes them to not fully appreciate the only lives they are ever going to have, as they are having them.
 
Quote from nutmeg:

Frankly, the easist way to tell is check the weather. If you go outside and your cold, hot, wet, whatever, you exist.
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It can also be as subtle as feeling the brush of a warm, gentle wind. Or even passing some...
 
Quote from thesharpone:

there is an even better question;

how do you know God, when you see one?

In other words; let's say it's judgment day and you have come to stand before God, how do you know for sure that the person you are standing before is 1. God and 2. The Ultimate God?
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If it's judgement day and you're standing before anything that looks even remotely like it might be God it's probably best not to argue.
 
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