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Re: [OFF-TOPIC]Re: PICS is not censorship



Gemini Thunder wrote:
>
> There are universally valid truths.  You implicitly admit so by
> stating "...at most, one religion is correct".

No, he didn't; he said "at most".  I personally think none is correct,
and I don't agree there are universally valid truths.  I defy you to
explain how you know that to be so.

> The problem is we can not always determine what the universally valid
> truth is (especially so in moral/religious matters)

Then why do you think there is such a thing?

> so we tend to cop-out 

Why is it a "cop-out" to accept the limits of human perception?

> and say there are no truths, or something 
> along the lines of:
> 
> "Well, that might be right for you, but not for me."
> 
> or the one I love to hate:
> 
> "Perception is reality."

How do you know reality is something other than perception if you
don't perceive it to be so?

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