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RE: Name 1 Something that You are Sure of
July 26, 2013 at 1:06 am
(July 23, 2013 at 1:20 pm)Walking Void Wrote: Religious or not I would very much relish to hear the 1 thing You are sure of. Something You know for certain. Something You clearly understand.
I myself take the side that nothing is absolute because everything moves as time advances.
As such, I am certain that no 1 thing is important. Nothing matters or has meaning to it.
A depressing view to some, but not me.
Dunno how well it engages with your notions of philosophy, but what about your parents? Even when distilled down to merely DNA donors, they surely show something matters...you!...even if only to provide the next link in the chain. Now maybe the biological drive to continue the species isn't what you were after, but I thought I'd throw it out there.
My humourous response, btw, in keeping with the other posters, is this:
I'm sure my wife will giggle whenever she sees me naked. (Damned chilly house!)
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RE: Name 1 Something that You are Sure of
July 26, 2013 at 12:23 pm
(July 25, 2013 at 10:47 pm)Walking Void Wrote: Shit guys. I did not know that the Philosophy Forum was a place to just joke around.
You must be new here. 
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RE: Name 1 Something that You are Sure of
July 26, 2013 at 12:29 pm
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RE: Name 1 Something that You are Sure of
July 26, 2013 at 12:32 pm
Even Descartes was wrong when he concluded that, if nothing else, he existed. The evil spirit (his version of The Matrix) might also be representing him. Annoyingly, he also concluded that God must necessarily exist. Although he was in the service of the church, so that might have been a means of avoiding starvation and homelessness. So we shouldn't grumble too much about that inclusion.
Something I am sure of? Quite a few things, but I'll opt for evolution. That's how obvious it is.
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RE: Name 1 Something that You are Sure of
July 26, 2013 at 1:12 pm
Love. Something I am sure of - in its many forms.
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RE: Name 1 Something that You are Sure of
July 26, 2013 at 1:31 pm
(July 25, 2013 at 10:47 pm)Walking Void Wrote: Shit guys. I did not know that the Philosophy Forum was a place to just joke around. Maybe I should have had this in off-topic. Some funny stuff though.
I mean, I could joke around too but I was kinda anticipating something to ponder about.
My answer was actually serious. I find very little in my life that I can be absolutely certain of, but thanks to evolution, I can be quite sure that a knife being inserted into my leg will cause me to experience pain.
I think that much of what we feel we are certain of is an illusion, but baser biologic reactions is not one of them.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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RE: Name 1 Something that You are Sure of
July 26, 2013 at 1:35 pm
(July 26, 2013 at 1:31 pm)Faith No More Wrote: My answer was actually serious. I find very little in my life that I can be absolutely certain of, but thanks to evolution, I can be quite sure that a knife being inserted into my leg will cause me to experience pain.
I think that much of what we feel we are certain of is an illusion, but baser biologic reactions is not one of them.
*cough* Phantom Limbs *cough*.
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RE: Name 1 Something that You are Sure of
July 26, 2013 at 1:37 pm
(July 26, 2013 at 1:12 pm)max-greece Wrote: Love. Something I am sure of - in its many forms.
Max. I didn't know you were a romantic.
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RE: Name 1 Something that You are Sure of
July 26, 2013 at 1:40 pm
(July 25, 2013 at 9:07 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: (July 25, 2013 at 7:38 pm)Slave Wrote: Fire good!
Fire BAD!
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RE: Name 1 Something that You are Sure of
July 26, 2013 at 2:12 pm
(July 26, 2013 at 1:35 pm)genkaus Wrote: *cough* Phantom Limbs *cough*.
Yes, phantom limbs are an illusion. However, I was referring to the ceratinty that biological reactions will occur, not that our interpreation of biological reactions will match reality.
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