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Old 05-29-2008, 04:24 PM
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Default There is no truth!

Except that agnostics are pussies.
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Old 05-29-2008, 08:27 PM
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There is one truth.

The only statement that can be made with any certainty is "I exist."
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Old 05-29-2008, 08:34 PM
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There is one truth.

The only statement that can be made with any certainty is "I exist."
Are you sure?
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Old 05-30-2008, 08:01 AM
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“What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.”
- Francis Bacon, Essays, “Of Truth” (1597, 1625)

To say that “there is no truth” is, petitio principii, to beg the question that it can be known absolutely. In this, it would take a very great philosopher to know the absolute truth; and yet every day the most casual persons take oaths to “tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth”; which probably comes about as close to the absolute truth as may be conceived. At the trial of Jesus, Pontius Pilate asked: “What is truth?” Interestingly, Christ did not answer the question; and in that pregnant pause between thought and decision, there is perhaps more truth than what is written in all of the gospels.
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Old 05-30-2008, 04:39 PM
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The title of this thread is self defeating...

"There is no truth"

Hmm..Is that a true statement?
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Old 05-30-2008, 04:42 PM
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Except that agnostics are pussies.
Oh suburban, I do have to admire your ability to claim victory even as you are surrendering everything to everyone.
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Old 05-30-2008, 04:43 PM
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There is one truth.

The only statement that can be made with any certainty is "I exist."
I have another truth for you. If you jump off a 60 story window without a means to arrest your descent or softening your impact, it will either hurt a lot or kill you.

If you care to debate this truth, I will be more than happen to be your witness.
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Old 05-30-2008, 04:48 PM
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I have another truth for you. If you jump off a 60 story window without a means to arrest your descent or softening your impact, it will either hurt a lot or kill you.

If you care to debate this truth, I will be more than happen to be your witness.
I was always told that you would die on the way down from heart failure before reaching the ground.

That doesn't exactly negate your truth, it's just something I was told.
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Old 05-30-2008, 04:53 PM
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I was always told that you would die on the way down from heart failure before reaching the ground.

That doesn't exactly negate your truth, it's just something I was told.
I've actually heard that was a myth.

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Oh, I can wiggle as well, I didn't specifically say it was the impact that would kill you, but rather the action of jumping out the window. This would allow me to incorporate deaths that occur in midfall as well :-)
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Old 05-30-2008, 04:54 PM
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Oh suburban, I do have to admire your ability to claim victory even as you are surrendering everything to everyone.
yeah you fuckin wish, soho
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