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Re: [OFF-TOPIC]Re: PICS is not censorship
Gemini Thunder wrote:
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> 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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