(November 6, 2014 at 6:14 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote:(November 6, 2014 at 5:40 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: They say we can't be sure of anything (solipsism)I would understand that to be skepticism...
Skepticism is reasonable doubt. Solipsism is wanting things to be proven beyond a shadow of a doubt.
If you showed me faith healing was real and performed it as a repeated experiment in double-blind studies under medical peer review, with the positive results of the study published in a respected peer-reviewed medical journal, I would believe. The burden of proof would have been met.
If you showed the same thing to a solipsist, they would claim not to believe anything aside from their own existence and that they have sensations which may not be accurate and memories which may not be accurate.
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"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
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... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
