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1 + 1 = 2
You guys are agreeing that this is a human creation?
You guys are agreeing that this is a human creation?
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I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
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Its math.
yes"Just puttin on the foil" - Jeff Hanson
“In a democracy, I realize you don’t need to talk to the top leader to know how the country feels. When I go to a dictatorship, I only have to talk to one person and that’s the dictator, because he speaks for all the people.” - Jimmy CarterComment
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Humans did not make it true, they only found out that it was.Originally posted by Ogie Oglethorpe
Its math.
yesI drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
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It's a construct based on made-up axioms. It's no more intrinsically "true" than 1 +1 = 1."Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
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They found a concept to describe their physical surroundings.
The real point is you speak to fundamental truths.
Even fundamental truths (if they exist at all) need a coding or social construct to be processed."Just puttin on the foil" - Jeff Hanson
“In a democracy, I realize you don’t need to talk to the top leader to know how the country feels. When I go to a dictatorship, I only have to talk to one person and that’s the dictator, because he speaks for all the people.” - Jimmy CarterComment
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True, but that doesn't mean that the fundamental truth is a social construct, only that we have constructed a way of processing it.Originally posted by Ogie Oglethorpe
Even fundamental truths (if they exist at all) need a coding or social construct to be processed.I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
- Justice Brett KavanaughComment
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Yes, but you might as well say it is a social construct if:Originally posted by Kidicious
True, but that doesn't mean that the fundamental truth is a social construct, only that we have constructed a way of processing it.
1) There is no such thing as a fundamental truth or
2) that the social construct used to interpret that fundamental truth means the same to person a as it does to person b"Just puttin on the foil" - Jeff Hanson
“In a democracy, I realize you don’t need to talk to the top leader to know how the country feels. When I go to a dictatorship, I only have to talk to one person and that’s the dictator, because he speaks for all the people.” - Jimmy CarterComment
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not applicableOriginally posted by Ogie Oglethorpe
Yes, but you might as well say it is a social construct if:
1) There is no such thing as a fundamental truth
why?Originally posted by Ogie Oglethorpe
2) that the social construct used to interpret that fundamental truth means the same to person a as it does to person bI drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
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The fact that there are external truths does not mean that right exist apart from the human mind.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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But there are no eternal truths."Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
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What Che said."Just puttin on the foil" - Jeff Hanson
“In a democracy, I realize you don’t need to talk to the top leader to know how the country feels. When I go to a dictatorship, I only have to talk to one person and that’s the dictator, because he speaks for all the people.” - Jimmy CarterComment
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I'm not arguing that the right to equal treatment isn't a social contract, but that equality isn't a social concept. Things were equal before any human realized it or communicated it to another human.Originally posted by chegitz guevara
The fact that there are external truths does not mean that right exist apart from the human mind.I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
- Justice Brett KavanaughComment
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External, not eternal. With an X.Originally posted by Ramo
But there are no eternal truths.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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The equality of humans is a human concept.Originally posted by Kidicious
I'm not arguing that the right to equal treatment isn't a social contract, but that equality isn't a social concept.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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acknowledgedOriginally posted by chegitz guevara
The equality of humans is a human concept.I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
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