That is a different use of the word given. I know life is given to me, something I find it odd to hear from an atheist. If life is a gift, who gave it to you? If life just is, then...
We can be about 99% sure that reality is real. We can be about 99% sure there is or is not a god. These are things, like may others, that are not disprovable in total. We have to be careful with those things. I am speaking of adhearing to reality, something I think you guys speak highly of. In reality, we can't know that it is what it seems to be. And so we must adress this unsureness. Rember Kyu talling me how the world began, and me saying that all we had was theory about that. He posted the entire wiki about the big bang, because everyone knows that wikipedia was there at the begining of the universe.
Sorry to ramble.
We have to be very clear (with ourselves) over what we do and don't know for sure...
Thanks,
-Pip
We can be about 99% sure that reality is real. We can be about 99% sure there is or is not a god. These are things, like may others, that are not disprovable in total. We have to be careful with those things. I am speaking of adhearing to reality, something I think you guys speak highly of. In reality, we can't know that it is what it seems to be. And so we must adress this unsureness. Rember Kyu talling me how the world began, and me saying that all we had was theory about that. He posted the entire wiki about the big bang, because everyone knows that wikipedia was there at the begining of the universe.
Sorry to ramble.
We have to be very clear (with ourselves) over what we do and don't know for sure...
Thanks,
-Pip
