(January 9, 2012 at 1:54 pm)amkerman Wrote: Do you believe reality exists?No.
Reality can be tested and falsified and it has proven its existence reliably for a measured 13.7 billion years or so.
(January 9, 2012 at 1:54 pm)amkerman Wrote: Even if it couldn't be perceived, even if it could be found nowhere, even if it couldn't be proven, wouldn't it nevertheless exist by definition, because it NECESSARILY exists?If there was a reality that couldn't be perceived, located, studied, proven, then the question of whether or not it exists because irrelevant.
At best, the question of this reality becomes academic but unless it is perceptible, then dealing with it is pointless.
(January 9, 2012 at 1:54 pm)amkerman Wrote: Is everything that exists a derivative of reality?Whta definition of reality are you using? It seems to change with each question. This question is nonsensical.
(January 9, 2012 at 1:54 pm)amkerman Wrote: If reality contains all thought, all knowledge, is it not omnipotent?Your question isn't internally logical and again I don't know what definition of reality you're using anymore.
If you're referring to the universe and our existence wherein, then no. The universe has shown no signs thus far being concious or capable of limitless ability as defined by true omnipotence. The universe has a limited amount of energy contained wherein.
(January 9, 2012 at 1:54 pm)amkerman Wrote: If reality contains within it all time and all things is it not omnipresent?The universe isn't god.
(January 9, 2012 at 1:54 pm)amkerman Wrote: If reality is dependent on nothing is it not infallible?The universe isn't god.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
