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High there Henry. we're bored aren't we. Nice to meet you my name is David. I am a complete nerd. I talk about things that many people think are ridiculous to talk about. I collect axioms and all sorts of other random blocks of text that for whatever reason appeal to me. Generally I'll put some little quip up, hope someone can refute it's logic in a way that I can understand, and that's what I'm doing here. I'm just getting over this bug here so I probably will only pop in sporadically for a long while after this but if you aren't interested in the crap I'm putting up, would you mind just ignoring it?
Hello David. Yes, we are pretty bored, I can see that now. I probably come off as a small child to you at times, or perhaps I don't; I don't know what you're thinking after all. The problem is that neither of us know what each other are thinking at all, which is why we have the glorious power of verbal communication. Not that I've used it very lucratively, but my intention is not to frustrate you, but to merely state my thoughts. Please do not assume that I am not interested in logic questioning debates just because I say something silly; it is merely the product of the jargon that fills my brain at a late hour when I attempt to reason through something as complicated as this subject. It's not a job my brain can handle at this hour. I assume that you either work 3rd shift or live on the opposite side of the world or country I live in, because I do not understand your frustration. How are you able to keep your brain not all jargoned up over this subject when it's so late? I suspect vampirism and your very likely differing location.
My point though is that I do not think this is crap. I said something silly because it's neat, but I couldn't think of anything else to say because it's late and me and my wife have yet to go to sleep. I will likely cook something up when I have awoken tomo-... later, much later, today.
If I am frustrating you with my fun, I apologize. I'm not trying to degrade, mock, or troll you. If you don't think that I'm sincere, well I suppose that's too bad, because I am being sincere. I honestly find many of your debates and arguments interesting to read in comparison to others. It would be nice if you did not assume I am trying to be a total douche. Not that you are, but you seem like you just might be.
OK you have cleared up some misconceptions I had about your intentions and exposed my tendency to take things too seriously. What a nice friendly thing to do. :)
Again, I disagree with you. What about the notion that we exist? Not necessarily physically, but mentally. Someone can argue that your body isn't real all day long using any kind of wacky and radical ideas, but at the end of the day, how did they come up with those ideas? Using thought. As Rene Descartes said, "I think, therefore I am."
Oh your God, you just met me and you're bent on being antagonistic. What is your problem? My first comment on this debate was nothing but a joke you buzz-kill! You think I would base a real opinion on a joke? I don't know if you misunderstood that it's a joke or if you're just trying to be rude and antagonistic, but really, don't be that way. It's impolite. You don't really know me at all yet. Just because the first thing you read is something you disagree with doesn't mean you're supposed to be a hostile ass.
I'm not being "a hostile ass" at all. First of all, I didn't call anyone "a hostile ass," so maybe the hostilities here are coming from you and not me.
Second, you used a legitimate argument. "The only absolute is that there is no absolute." Maybe you perceived that as a joke, but many call that a truthful statement, so I treated it as such.
And third, this website is called CreateDebate. If you're getting pissed because someone happens to disagree with you on just about everything, maybe you shouldn't be on this website.
Just because you didn't call names initially doesn't not make you hostile. You crowned me your enemy before you even knew me. How not hostile is that, hm? It's pretty rude, methinks.
Oh... well. Thank you then. It wasn't serious when it popped into my drowsy brain at 2 A.M.
I'm not pissed at you disagreeing. I'm pissed at you seeing a single opinion of mine and then targeting me, the enemy tag also included. That is rude. I don't target anyone (except for trolls).
It's an online debate community. I declared you my enemy because I want to follow what you're doing and engage in some healthy debates with you, not because I hate you.
I never imagined I'd meet someone of the opposing views that was totally sincere... like me.
Sorry. I'm used to right-winged viewers being ignorant, trollish, assholes who do not have real legitimately interesting arguments. Such is why I don't generally see the 'enemy' button as 'frenemy', but instead as 'I hate you go die in a hole you fucking Jew.'
Thus is why I denied your enemy declaration. I apologize for that as well.
Making an observation such as "there absloutely are no absolutes" is not a statement credibly asscociable with an observation. Were there no absolutes, one would say "there haven't been any absolutes heresofar made aware".
I think that the only absolute is us. We are to be and exist. There is nothing else we can percieve but what we can percieve. There can be other things that we may not see, but we can't see them, so their existence isn't absolute. The existence that is absolute is our own, because we do not see anything from any other point of view. Can you see the world from the view of a dog? No, only your own eyes. So the only thing you can know for an absolute is that you exist. Your view has no other view but your own.
And yes, I don't know if I know what I'm talking about either. Just woke up.
Lol this is one of the problems i have with rape and people who are hostile towards me. I say rape can be a good thing because i believe anything in this world is possible. But when people say that rape is evil, i go "hmmm is that absolutely true."
The only truth that is guareenteed is perceptional truth. You know for a fact (100 percent) that you created this debate. But we can only recieve that fact as 99 Percent factual. That there is a 1 percent chance that you didn't created this debate. Even if i saw you that you created this debate...Who says that the person i saw was you?
Now don't get me wrong....this seems illogical. But illogical doesn't mean impossible. Right now you are probably thinking that "oh it is the same person i talked to earlier about rape." But who says it is me? I know 100% that it is me. However, you what if im lying to you? That is the 1% im talking about earlier.
Who says that i wrote the first part of this comment? I know for a fact that i did? But can you really take my word for it? You can 99% find out about the real truth. But when it is not perceptional, you can't call it guareenteed. Only i can if it my perceptional situation.
Religious arguments aside, the only true absolute in life is that we exist. One could toy with the prospects of quantum theory, theoretical physical concepts that disprove the existence of time, or any kind of radical notion, but no one can deny the existence of us, if not physically, then mentally.
Objectivism holds that reality exists independent of consciousness, that human beings have direct contact with reality through sense perception, that one can attain objective knowledge from perception through the process of concept formation and inductive and deductive logic, that the proper moral purpose of one's life is the pursuit of one's own happiness or rational self-interest.