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Is there any way to describe this belief?
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RE: Is there any way to describe this belief?
Sounds like agnostic fundamentalism.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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#12
RE: Is there any way to describe this belief?
(April 9, 2012 at 1:27 pm)Adjusted Sanity Wrote: I have a belief that anything and every idea is possibly true. And if an idea cannot be true here, it is true somewhere else. I haven't thought on the idea much, but it does match how I think.
The multi-verse of different realities and rules that govern them?

That's fine. My dad used to think reality was sentient so that if anyone ever understood the complexity of our cosmos, it would instantly change and be replaced by something even more complex. I really don't know what he was drinking that night. >.>
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#13
RE: Is there any way to describe this belief?
(April 9, 2012 at 1:27 pm)Adjusted Sanity Wrote: I have a belief that anything and every idea is possibly true. And if an idea cannot be true here, it is true somewhere else. I haven't thought on the idea much, but it does match how I think.

Discordianism?
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.

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#14
RE: Is there any way to describe this belief?
The cat is both alive and dead, yet neither. The cat is neither alive nor dead, but both. The cat does not exist.

All of the above are true. All of the above are false. I can concieve of all things, therefore no things are true. I cannot imagine a thing, so that thing must exist. Somewhere, I never typed this.

The nature of reality is a fun one to ponder, but one has to be careful when venturing down the rabbit hole, lest one set up shop in cocoa puffs land.
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#15
RE: Is there any way to describe this belief?
(April 9, 2012 at 1:49 pm)Paul the Human Wrote: Seriously. Quantum Mechanics.

The Matrix.


In all seriousness though, that was very interesting. Theoretically the cat in a box would be observing itself though, would it not? Or did I mistake the point?
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#16
RE: Is there any way to describe this belief?
(April 9, 2012 at 5:14 pm)Welsh cake Wrote:
(April 9, 2012 at 1:27 pm)Adjusted Sanity Wrote: I have a belief that anything and every idea is possibly true. And if an idea cannot be true here, it is true somewhere else. I haven't thought on the idea much, but it does match how I think.
The multi-verse of different realities and rules that govern them?

That's fine. My dad used to think reality was sentient so that if anyone ever understood the complexity of our cosmos, it would instantly change and be replaced by something even more complex. I really don't know what he was drinking that night. >.>

So the universe would be a troll then.

Science: We finally understand everything!
The Universe: LOL. not anymore.
This is stupid
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#17
RE: Is there any way to describe this belief?
(April 9, 2012 at 6:50 pm)R-e-n-n-a-t Wrote:
(April 9, 2012 at 1:49 pm)Paul the Human Wrote: Seriously. Quantum Mechanics.

The Matrix.


In all seriousness though, that was very interesting. Theoretically the cat in a box would be observing itself though, would it not? Or did I mistake the point?

I suppose that, if the cat actually existed, it's awareness might count as 'observance of self'... But who's to say that there is a cat at all? I believe the point, put into it's simplest terms, is that reality = perception, therefore, there is no reality prior to perception.
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#18
RE: Is there any way to describe this belief?
Quote:I have a belief that anything and every idea is possibly true.


Groovy.


Small problem: you have made a positive claim and have attracted the burden of proof. Let's see it. Angel Cloud
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#19
RE: Is there any way to describe this belief?
(April 9, 2012 at 5:14 pm)Welsh cake Wrote:
(April 9, 2012 at 1:27 pm)Adjusted Sanity Wrote: I have a belief that anything and every idea is possibly true. And if an idea cannot be true here, it is true somewhere else. I haven't thought on the idea much, but it does match how I think.
The multi-verse of different realities and rules that govern them?

That's fine. My dad used to think reality was sentient so that if anyone ever understood the complexity of our cosmos, it would instantly change and be replaced by something even more complex. I really don't know what he was drinking that night. >.>

Sounds suspiciously like your dad had been listening to the second Hitchhiker radio series or reading the book based on same:

Quote:There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

Or are you by any chance the son of Douglas Adams? Worship
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Is there any way to describe this belief?
(April 9, 2012 at 9:18 pm)padraic Wrote:
Quote:I have a belief that anything and every idea is possibly true.


Groovy.


Small problem: you have made a positive claim and have attracted the burden of proof. Let's see it. Angel Cloud

I made no claims that this was true or false. I only claimed to believe it. I also was only asking what such a belief would be called. And I am satisfied to have found an answer.

I don't aim to prove anything unless I have proof.

And if I'm going to change minds why do it for something as silly as this?
This is stupid
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