(July 6, 2013 at 3:27 pm)Rahul Wrote: I always knew he was Batman. Something about the eyes.
As my atheist colleagues have already guessed, proclaiming I'm Batman is the same thing as someone telling you that they know God exists because they know he exists because they know he exists. Essentially, it's an unverifiable claim. Using logic, one can debunk someone's claim that he/she is Batman in quite the same way that one can debunk one's belief in an invisible God/Unicorn/Optimus Prime. At the end of the day, the claim fails, and yet the one making the claim does not see it because he/she keeps spinning new ways to justify his or her belief, just as I could do if someone shows me how I'm not Batman.
You: There's no such thing as Gotham.
Me: You've never been there. How do you know?
You: I looked at a map.
Me: You're reading that map wrong.
You: Show me the bat mobile.
Me: I drove my other car today.
You: Take me to it.
Me: I can't show you where the batcave is.
And it goes on. The only way it can stop is when the justification for ridiculous and unprovable claims ends.