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Originally posted by dave
I have ten fingers. This is true.
Mind explaining to me how this is up for debate?
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Sure, you can say you have ten fingers, but how does that make it true to me? You could scan your hands and post a picture, but then that still doesn't prove anything, because they could be some one else's hands.
Carry this over to religion. Many people state that their belief system is "the truth", and they immediately damn everyone else. But why is yours true? Simply because you believe it? The fact of the matter is, none of them "know" it's the "truth", they simply convince themselves it is so, so it is.
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Originally posted by Tobiasly
No, that is still an incorrect statement. As Mulder said, "the truth is out there." If people convince you that 2 + 2 = 5, that doesn't make it true, it just makes you wrong. There is only one truth.
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Actually, I've been told that it is possible to prove 2+2=5. My cousin was in a math class where they did a proof which was able to turn out said result. If we wander together over to
google it seems we have our answer.
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Originally posted by sycamore
There is certainly undisputable truth out there. Unfortunately people are not always completely truthful via the use of half-truths. At the same time, our interpretations of the truth may differ. I may interpret an undisputable fact as one thing, while Quzah sees it differently.
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Indeed. It's like when you had to take tests in school. True or false tests. If any part of the answer was true, you were supposed to mark true. Yet, at the same time, part of the answer could be false, while the whole sum of it was still considered to be true.
Truth is what you can convince others, or yourself, of. We don't even begin to scratch the surface of the mind here. There are people who have 100% conviction that a given statement is fact, and even when shown "proof" to the contrairy, cannot or will not accept the new as true.
Think about it: Everything you know as "true" is simply because you were led to believe it. That my friend,
is true.
Quzah.