What is a true statement?

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  1. Ged

    Ged Tits and Thigh Man.

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  2. Ged

    Ged Tits and Thigh Man.

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  3. tikoo

    tikoo Senior Member

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    Poetry deserves everything it gets . Crush .
     
  4. I agree that there is an objective reality. Which brings us back to "What are some truths?" therefore.
     
  5. I've heard of people living off of sunlight before.
     
  6. tumbling.dice

    tumbling.dice Visitor

    A statement based on evidence and supported by experiment can be regarded as true.
     
  7. Okiefreak

    Okiefreak Senior Member

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    Good enough for me, although I'd have to acknowledge that we could be brains in a jar and that our "reality" is virtual--a computer generated, matrix style, mirage. I'm betting it isn't.
     
  8. Irminsul

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    Can't run without legs :D
     
  9. Flashdown

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    But what if you get prosthetic legs and you are able to run. Have you then moved to a different multiverse compared to where you do not have prosthetic legs and then the truth of the statement of not being able to run is then not real? (I'm trying to sound like a deep thinker like other members, not sure if it worked?)
     
  10. wooleeheron

    wooleeheron Brain Damaged Lifetime Supporter

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    Allan Watts famously described God as playing peek-a-boo but, the truth is, Allan Watts is nearsighted, and all the handwaving is because God farted.
     
  11. Ged

    Ged Tits and Thigh Man.

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    For the sophist, what is true is the thing that best goes with their breakfast. Truth and lie are expedient to the extent that they increase pleasure and reduce pain. The gross materialist deludes himself that he is not mistaken. Give the dolt one free miracle and he'll take the scientific explanation to explain the rest. When Oscar Wilde wrote ' The Decay of Lying' he was trying to show that nature imitates art as much as it does life.
     
  12. Irminsul

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    I thought I replied about the prosthetic leg lol. Whoops there's gonna be a thread around here with a random comment by me. :sweatsmile:

    Anyway, nope a proth leg is a leg still you can't run without it.
     
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  13. wooleeheron

    wooleeheron Brain Damaged Lifetime Supporter

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    Not when the Sophist discovers, their unconscious mind expresses their neotenic tendencies. The price of playing God with reality, is you become the butt end of your own unconscious jokes. Solipsists, of all people, must be careful what they wish for!
     
  14. Ged

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    I was just trying to imitate your style, which I quite like really. I can spin this bullshit all day but it doesn't really get me anywhere. Anyway - something to amuse the folks...
     
  15. Ged

    Ged Tits and Thigh Man.

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    Yes but strawberry flavour sunlight is the best.
     
  16. wooleeheron

    wooleeheron Brain Damaged Lifetime Supporter

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    Actually, this kind of bullshit exercises the fuzzy logic of the two year old in your subconscious mind. If you master it like I have, you can treat words like they are just mathematical variables, all complete and totally meaningless bullshit, that just fun to play with!!! :()&97908ihioahfioup;w13
     
  17. tikoo

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    My oracle wheel defines truth as an extreme oneness vibration . It can be accomplished through domination .
    It can be accomplished through loneliness . It can be subverted by imposing non-relational nonsense , such
    as to insist This statement is true .
     
  18. wooleeheron

    wooleeheron Brain Damaged Lifetime Supporter

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    Truth is the greater context which all oracles bow down to, for it is the greater context of the truth which decides everything, by merely lending its meaning to everything unconditionally. Yea, tho I walk through the shadow of the Valley of Death I will fear no evil, for my truth cannot be corrupted. Set your words free, set your truth free, and know true freedom is a gift we must give ourselves first. Learn what it means to accept knowing nothing can lead to learning anything.

    Socrates called it, "The Memory of God" whom none may look upon and remember in all his glory.
     
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  19. Irminsul

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    What comes around, goes around, the pendulums promise.
     
  20. relaxxx

    relaxxx Senior Member

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    Those people are called liars.

    Here's a guy who speaks actual scientific truths.

     

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