Can we know the truth?

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Can we know the truth?

Yes, the truth is simple to find	0%	[ 0 ]
Yes, with a lot of effort	22%	[ 4 ]
No, the truth is impossible to find due to limitations on data acquisition & processing	28%	[ 5 ]
No, the truth is impossible to find out because the data required is beyond knowing	22%	[ 4 ]
There is no truth	17%	[ 3 ]
What I think is the truth	11%	[ 2 ]

Total votes : 18

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06 Jun 2008, 4:58 pm

Desire is the antithesis of Tao, for desire is the root of strife.

Tao does not strive, it is sufficient of Tao to simply be, and not do.

Yet, Tao flows unobstructed in every direction, remaining unchanged and changing nothing, thus it fulfills its purpose silently and makes no claim.

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06 Jun 2008, 5:28 pm

Maybe.

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06 Jun 2008, 7:25 pm

Consider the black rose yourself, amongst a field of red roses (other people). Then consider the view from 10,000,000,000 light years away, while that field of roses or 'people' is growing exponentially. Now zoom back in to see how inconsequential you are in the great picture of the Universe. Truth is that the Universe is so vast that the human mind cannot totally grasp it's vastness without his head imploding. Information overload.

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06 Jun 2008, 7:32 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcTHBOjnUss[/youtube]

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06 Jun 2008, 7:33 pm

Sand wrote:

The insistence that humans are not machines is the last refuge of someone who claims some sort of hogwash about humans not being made of the same material stuff as everything else in the universe. It is a claim never substantiated in any reasonable form.

But then we can be made of the same material as evertthing else and still not be machines. And somehow, all the material stuff you can see, whether living or not, is not as it appears to be. So the esperimental evidence indicates that all matter as atoms, molecules and living organisms consists almost all of the space between its subatomic component parts. And scientists have yet to really work out how this is so.

So, who knows? there could still be something magical about the universe iincluding human beings that has yet to be discovered.

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06 Jun 2008, 7:38 pm

Thank you Eric for proving my point.

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06 Jun 2008, 7:39 pm

The_Chosen_One wrote:

Thank you Eric for proving my point.

Eric?

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06 Jun 2008, 8:11 pm

No.

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06 Jun 2008, 8:12 pm

Who is Eric?

Where is Snowden?

Why is Yossarian?

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06 Jun 2008, 8:31 pm

Eric Idle. Monty Python.

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06 Jun 2008, 8:34 pm

The_Chosen_One wrote:

Eric Idle. Monty Python.

Thank you, and now for something completely back on topic: Can we ever know the truth?

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06 Jun 2008, 8:37 pm

burnse22 wrote:

The_Chosen_One wrote:

Eric Idle. Monty Python.

Thank you, and now for something completely back on topic: Can we ever know the truth?

Depends. How do we know we actually know?

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