--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote: <snip> > I *understand* that some people (and > especially some people on this forum) get their > buttons pushed when someone challenges an assump- > tion that they have taken for granted for so > long that it has for them become unchallengable. > But challenging the unchallengable assumptions > (like the existence of something called "truth") > is what *I* do for fun.
Thing is, Barry, you don't do it very well. > I don't know shit. I am not *claiming* to know > shit. I'm just having fun challenging pretty > much everything I've ever been told in my life > was "true," to see if I can find a situation > or a POV from which it is *not* true. So far > I have been unable to find a single "truth" > I cannot do this with. For example, let's see you do this with your thesis that there are no absolute truths. From what situation or POV would that *not* be true? I.e., from what situation or POV would the nonexistence of absolute truths NOT be true? And for extra credit: From what situation or POV would it NOT be true that people challenge you because they're uncomfortable with your challenging their beliefs?
