RE: Let's talk about bias!!!
May 14, 2018 at 9:24 am
(This post was last modified: May 14, 2018 at 9:48 am by Drich.)
(May 11, 2018 at 3:18 pm)Astreja Wrote:(May 11, 2018 at 3:00 pm)Drich Wrote: We are so stupid to assume we know anything of value. we can't even survey every part of this planet let alone tell you what is really going on 100 trillion light years away.
That's a bit harsh, Drich. Knowledge and value are not black-and-white propositions, but infinite shades of grey.
Life/Truth is not graded on a curve in reality. if it were the world would still be flat and the america unknown. People are either right or they are wrong. the problem with us is we abhore a vacuum where knoweledge is concerned, and will substitute 'right for now' as absolute truth. which is a lie as truth for now is nothing more than dressed up faith, the same faith used to start a belief in God... yet when speaking of God you use your 'right for now' knowledge as if somehow were more legit than belief in God.
(May 12, 2018 at 1:01 pm)LostLocke Wrote:(May 11, 2018 at 3:18 pm)Astreja Wrote: That's a bit harsh, Drich. Knowledge and value are not black-and-white propositions, but infinite shades of grey.He's done that a few times before.
Either we know everything about a subject, or we know nothing about it, it would seem.
Seriously, from one demonsion we can accuratly predict and describe all the others?
From one point in time (meaning cosmically and the millions of trillions of years the cosmos has been) we have a 200 year period from which we can compare and observe recorded change.
From one finite perspective, meaning from one point from where three plotted pints in the universe come together we use our telescopes to describe everything knowable in the cosmos.. (which is the dumbest thing I've ever heard anyone ever lay claim to -carl sagen) The idea being from my perspective on this particular street corner I can describe accurately anything at any point in existence given the correct telescope. I can describe what a guy is doing on the 14th floor of the shang shee building in tieminian square. I can describe what is happening with the ocean floor as it pertain to volcanic activity, I can tell you what is going further than what light can travel literally, and describe accurately a black hole/gravity well which is the absence of everything... or there could just be nothing in that point in space.
This is junk science when compared to what we demand of what is observed/observable here on earth. but yet this junk science is dressed up as unquestionable undeniable truth.
