(August 5, 2010 at 12:03 am)TheDarkestOfAngels Wrote:(August 4, 2010 at 11:08 pm)Godschild Wrote: Does this qualifiy as absolute truth... some time in the near future you will cease to exist as you are now.
No. It doesn't qualify as 'absolute truth.' You can't be absolutely certain what the state of my existance will be in the immediate, near, or distant future.
I can be quite certain, for example, that given no unfortunate incidents between now and old age and assuming no major changes in medical science over the next half-decade or so, I'm quite certain that my life will end of some complication or another before a century of my life has passed.
However, that isn't a certainty. I could live a much shorter or a much longer life depending on many factors. I could a one-in-a-trillion human with the abilty to not die of old age or medical technology may have a breakthrough that would allow me to live indefinately in some manner or another.
There might even be a sort of afterlife or rebirth in which a part of me never truely dies and I simply change into something else but retain my basic essence.
As such, I can't even be completely certain of death with 100% absolute certainty. I can't even say with 100% certainty that I won't remain exactly as I am now until or through any instant in the future.
Still, I'm pretty damn sure I am never the same from any instant to another. Like any machine, every part of my body has a finite life span. There are living things existing inside my body. Even the atoms within my body is changing from one instant to another in their form and in their position.
As such, I can't even be absolutely certain on where 'change' is when you draw the line. In one sense, I may change very little in terms of my basic character, personality, and knowledge from now until the day I die but in another sense of change, I am never truely the same in any one instant in contrast to another. My body changes with each moment that passes.
So, no, there are no absolute truths.
Sounds to me as though you just proved an absolute truth. Change is inevitable science has shown this to be true.
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
