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Old 01-07-2008, 09:59 PM   #22 (permalink)
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You can believe that gravity does not exist all you want, but if you step off a 100 story building at the top, there is a 100% chance you will believe in absolutes at the end.
It seems like to me that Astral "knows" he will fall to the ground if he steps of a building and NC "believes" he will fall to the ground.

But.. regarding truth. For something to be really true could it not be such a thing that was so true that no one could even make up something for saying it was untrue? That in all it's glory it was just true and nothing more?

And popcorn is horrible like that btw
Furthermore, a bird can step off of a building and not fall as we would. This is because he can create a relative force countering the gravity which is a relative force in and of itself.

General relativity also makes it clear that gravity is relative, and this is a experimentally verified fact. Velocity and gravitational fields have effects on time relative to velocities between reference frames. Astral is confused about what the terms absolute and relatives mean.
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