soo i heard that some indians (native) found out that if you take 2 strings with 2 knots on each then you tie them together you end up 5 knots.. soo that means 2 + 2 equals 5 right there..
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I am not sure who doesn't believe in absolute truths at all. I certainly quite desperately do.
The matter of the fact though is that, 2+2 = 4 is defined in multiple systems like that. It's just a matter of definition.
You define 1 and 0 and then call "1+1" "2" and "1+1+1+1" "4" and "1+1+1+1" is defines as the same as "1+1" + "1+1". It's rather simple counting.
And assuming we exist, assuming we can define and assuming most things are the way they seem to us, that is an absolute truth. Not that we can ever be sure, now can we?
Not everything is absolute
Not everything is subjective
It's absolute to say that, but it's also subjective. Because what I think is absolute today, might be subjective tommorow, what I find to be subjective tommorow I might find to be absolute next-week.
Only the sith think in absolutes. And even "subjectivists" are guilty of thinking in absolutes. If they admit everything is subjective, then that in itself is an absolute.
I'm more inclined to be annoyed with moral subjectivists then absolutists. Because if morality is subjective, then pain is subjective. There is no moral reason not to just jump someone and rape them to death. Other then the ramifications of socio-justice. But then, why would they be upset? Is everyone else just ignorant of the moral subjectivity of my actions? How convient for the moral subjectivist victim I just raped to death...
Nothing aggarvates me more about others then the fact they think i'm as stupid as they are. I'm no friggin Plato, and neither are they.
Absolute statements can be proven to not be absolute....
For example...being dumb or doing dumb things is not always bad.
If an old lady, who needs to exercise but she forgets that she just turned off the stove, gets up and walks to the kitchen to turn off the stove only to find it turned off...is only in a better disposition than she began with because she was able to gain a bit of physical activity improving her health. of course,the butter fly effect can be applied to this scenario and you can say that she is able to live longer and an event that occurs with her causes a young person to change a little and later run for Presidency of the USA and this young person then becomes one of the best US presidents in history. Bla bla bla...and so forth.
The step 2 has a flaw. You can't presume that the double of a number is this same number multiplied by himself. Example: 3*2=6 yet 3*3=9, or 1*2=2 yet 1*1=1 (and go on).
Actually i know that it can be mathematically proved that 1+1 is not =2, yet i put aside math by quite some time and i would have to look in a big and scary pille of dusty books
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