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Date Posted: 09:59:44 01/04/00 Tue
Author: Anonymous
Subject: Re: EGO! EGO! EGO! and more
In reply to: 's message, "Re: EGO! EGO! EGO! and more" on 15:27:03 11/10/99 Wed

> > > Your 'True & False' Theory
> > is
> > > logically wrong. You can prove something is true
> (or
> > > exists) but you can NEVER prove something is false
> > (or
> > > does not exist). By your logic, the world WAS flat
> > > until Columbus proved to Europe that it wasn't.
> > (Yes,
> > > I know Columbus wasn't believed to be the first
> > person
> > > to discover the Western Hemisphere, but he WAS the
> > > first to return to Europe and PROVE it.) The world
> > > was not round (aka RoundWorld = FALSE) before he
> > > proved it to be round (RoundWorld = TRUE). Does
> this
> > > make sense?
>
>
> > {wonderful observation but wouldn't that mean that
> > there is only one truth for [everything] what about
> > religion[,] slave[?]
> > i know that you hate that kind of thing as much as i
> > do or at least you don't advocate it?}
>
> That all goes back to belief.
> You can choose to believe one way or another when
> there is no proof and there COULD be more than one
> Truth.
>
> Back to the 'Columbus Analogy': Columbus didn't know
> for certain the world was round, but he BELIEVED it
> was. At that point he had no proof, but in his mind,
> it made sense. (RoundWorld=Belief) When he discovered
> the proof, the belief became truth
> (RoundWorld=Belief... Belief=TRUTH...
> RoundWorld=TRUTH)This 'BELIEF' is often called
> 'OPINION' and for all purposes, they ARE the
> same. I cannot TRUTHFULLY say God does NOT
> exist, but I CAN say I do NOT believe there is a God.
>
> As for more than one Truth: By the same logic, you
> cannot prove there is only ONE Truth (that would be
> like proving that 'more than ONE Truth' is False). It
> is POSSIBLE for there to be more than ONE Truth, even
> if we haven't any proof to point that way. Maybe we
> just haven't looked hard enough or in the right place
> to find it. Until we find the PROOF, all BELIEFS of
> what is TRUE are nothing but OPINIONS.
>
> In closing, let me say, I think you took my statement
> slightly out of context. You can NEVER prove
> something is false, but that does NOT mean it is true.
> It COULD be possible, but without PROOF it cannot be
> TRUE.

Well wasn't FLATEARTH 'accpted' as TRUTH? Weren't humans murdered for bearing witness to ROUNDEARTH. Wasn't FLATEARTH proven false and non-existing.

More than one truth? Of course! And 'Free Will' is the choice to abide in the 'New Jerusalem'or the 'Land of the Horned-Toad'.

Can any animal besides man make prophesy?
{note: as to this question let us not quibble. Accept, for the purpose of this question, that it can be proven that man truely can and has written prophesies. We can discuss this truth seperately, but answer the question here.}

Have enjoyed the logic and reason on this thread, but what happened to everyone? Is this a place ya'll come too when you have nothing better to do? What I mean is, you all seem to be truely concerned and envolved in the things you discuss, but you seem to have little real intrest in it all. I would think that anyone who was sincerely intrested in the things they discuss here could find a few minuets each day or so to make an appearance and reply to those who have taken time to further the discussion. Even allowing for a day job and all the other BS one must attend to in this world, one should be able to find a few minutes each day.

Perhaps it is just a place you use to enflate your egos, when necessary, by impressing others with your knowledge.

Otherwise, where is everyone? Adding up your recently generated XMAS [extremely massive] DEBT?

/G\

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