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Originally Posted by NotConvinced But you think gravity is absolute? Prove it. Prove to me that gravity will always be true. | This is what I was waiting for. There is no such thing as proof. God could appear before your very eyes and you still don't have to believe it. But truth is truth... even if you don't like it, believe it, or hate it.
Occams Razor is a great principle to apply here. "All other things being equal, the simplest solution is the best."
Relativism is just way to complex to comprehend. Absolutes are much more simple. I hope you are not in any kind of research or engineering. Logic is a dictate of absolutes when dealing with electronics. They do not process in relative terms. They run code in an absolute state because that is the only way it works. Your body processes chemicals with absolute instructions. Wouldn't it be funny if it decided to stop metabolizing sugars? Oops, you would be dead though... I guess that is not very funny.
You can say and believe things are relative all you want, but you are only lying to yourself. It either is, or it is not, even while unknown. |
i'll ask again that if truth is absolute, how do we know what it is? yes you could say that gravity has always been their, but for thousands of years people had no explanation for it other than that the world was flat and we sit on it like an object sits on a table.
lol i agree that absolute is simpler, but the reason i asked this question was because of it's complexity. it's fun to speculate and mabey i will come to a conclusion on what i think truth is.
i'll agree that believing something does not make it true for anyone other than the person. but then what difference is their in what we believe to be true and what we know to be true?