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kris asked in Arts & HumanitiesPhilosophy · 1 decade ago

do you believe in doppelgangers?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    I met mine a long time ago (decades) and we looked like identical twins, but are emotionally and mentally as different as 2 people can possibly be!

  • 1 decade ago

    I do. And an interesting piece of fiction on the subject is "Despair" by Vladimir Nabokov. I won't give anything away in case you plan to read it, but it involves a man meeting his doppelganger, and coming up with some sinister plans.......

  • 5 years ago

    i'm unhappy to assert which you will by no ability locate the definitive evidence which you're searching for for. Doppelgangers are extra of a wicked double of a guy or woman no longer an unintentional look-a-like. That being mentioned I do have self assurance that maximum each and every person has somebody, no longer touching directly to them that appears like them. whilst i became 14 and residing in Phoenix Arizona I got here in touch with a newborn who concept i became his sister Michelle who had run away a year or so till now we met. He took me homestead with him and his undesirable distraught mom concept the comparable. i became shown photographs of her and not in basic terms did we glance alike yet we had the comparable flavor in outfits right down to my twine framed glasses. you're able to do each and all the learn you prefer in this issue yet for me seeing is believing. Peace&Love be with you...~M~

  • 1 decade ago

    I believe that yes, they do exist. I read an autobiographical story of a WWII soldier that had his dopple appear to him in a deadly situation. (He was saved by the dopple waving his arms backwards)

    Years later, He saw the same figure (still dressed in WWII battle gear) and he was warned again of an impending disaster.

    I have seen my "twin" but per the site below, it was not my dopple, as my girlfriend at the time saw him before I did.

    Source(s): webhome.idirect.com/~donlong/monsters/Html/Doppelga.htm
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  • 1 decade ago

    my identical twin tells me that I have to....

    one way of quantifying the probability that a doppelganger exists is to determine the probability of any one person's genetic makeup ...while it is a very large number....it it finite....

    so.....the odds are very much against it; however, it seems to be [at least theoretically] possible

  • Crash
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    No. Let me ask this other guy...hey! He looks just like me!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    That is very seldom, but may be!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    How is this a philosophic question?

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