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Originally Posted by Herra1  Hello You all.
I have a question which is somehow connected to OUR cause.
How can You prove anything.
Or to put the question other way. What, or which things are PROVEN ? |
Do WE have a "cause"? Who are WE, and what is IT?
Pending your answer, I'll share some preliminary thoughts on your question.
My initial response is
very few (things are proven). If you consider the small number of hypotheses that have graduated to the status of laws as a result of being subjected to the rigors of the scientific method, I think you'll agree. The law of gravity comes to mind. Since Newton published it all those hundreds of years ago, to my knowledge, no apple has ever fallen
up. It's been proven and confirmed every day and, despite a few
casa magnetica illusions, has never been called into serious question. Consequently, I'm very comfortable accepting it as proven, especially when I find myself in high places with less-than-substantial physical restraints.
On the other end of the spectrum, there are things accepted as being
proven on the basis of only one, or very few, experiences. The vast majority of religious phenomena fall squarely into this category. An example: "I prayed to god for deliverance from athlete's foot and three days later I saw a Lotrimin commercial." Such happenstance, to a surprisingly large number of people, constitutes irrevocable proof that god exists. And once hooked by such nebulous circumstances, they'll even believe that whether or not they'd seen the Lotrimin commercial, god would still have answered their prayers; as if not delivering them from athlete's foot were his way of teaching them humility, or the value of spiritual vs. physical considerations, or whatever else they might imagine.
The moral of this story is "be careful what you accept as proof". Otherwise, you could find yourself dashed to bits after falling from a great height, but happy about it because your foot is no longer itching.