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Noneism

Noneism is a fancy way of saying that some things don't exist. Imagine if you were playing with a toy car and then suddenly it disappeared. Noneism says that the toy car never really existed in the first place, even though you thought it did.

Some people who believe in noneism think that things only exist because we think they do or because they have a purpose. For example, a pencil only exists because we think it's useful for writing things down. But if we didn't have a need for writing, then a pencil wouldn't exist according to noneism.

So basically, noneism says that some things are only imagined or created by our thoughts, and they don't actually exist on their own. It's like our thoughts and ideas are like magic spells that can make things appear out of nowhere, but once we stop thinking about them, they disappear.
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