RE: No such thing as a "true" Christian
April 25, 2011 at 2:20 am
(This post was last modified: April 25, 2011 at 2:22 am by Violet.)
Chuck Wrote:There is nothing intrinsic to the intersubjective that makes it in principle untestable. The subset of it that in theory untestable is also indistinguishable from bullshit. Religious experience as they are thought to mean by the religious generally fall in this group and are indistinguishable from bullshit.
How about the intrinsic principle that it is utterly reliant upon one's faith that theirs is not the only viewpoint? I've never seen someone successfully tell solipsists to stuff it (because they are correct so far as argument goes).
And 'testability' is not even a logical concept... it cannot be proven logically. Proven by testing is one of the best things we've got, but it relies firmly upon our faith that 'we' is not simply me. I cannot logically prove you exist. The only three things which must by necessity exist are nothing, everything, and me.
If you want to argue against solipsists, I wish you bon voyage and won't bother recording your demise
Edit: PLEASE NOTE: this is using their definition of exist. Not mine. Under mine they are fucking annihilated. But none of you use mine
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day