Do I exist?

If Mead's theory of self is accurate, and a self is formed by the subjective perception and internalization of the "generalized other", if we are who we are because so-and-so has said so, do we cease to exist when so-and-so does not say? And what if we do not participate in the recognized patterns of self expression? Do we take on a marginal existence? If no one affirms that we exist does the subjective perception of self dissolve?

( I think that this is the reason for marriage that is given in "Shall We Dance". Marriage as a witness. That's a lot of pressure on the other.)

It has recently been brought to my attention that I do not have a facebook. This is very deliberate. Protest? Perhaps, but really, I can not even keep up with Email, and blogging, if one looks, is not even consistent. I have a myspace that I last visited ... sometime. Why would I get a facebook? So that my friends know that I exist?

I begin to wonder about all the marginal who exist. Those who do not have face books. Or those who do not have faces perhaps. Selves passing selves holding power to confirm or deny existence. If this sounds humanistic I can not help it. I don't know how to talk incarnationally. A self might exsit apart from other selves, but I doubt it would be actualized aprt from them. And in this process there is more at work than the easy categories of dualism or pantheism.

I still don't get the incarnation. Apparently the bible is written by humans. Studying biblical criticism is highly disruptive. I need some weeds to pull but I am surrounded by snow.

Anyway, I think I do exist. Even if I do not have a facebook. hm. Can one use the same argument for God? He does exist even if he doesn't have a facebook?