you win.

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Greenlit stopped beating up furries long enough to write:
You're outnumbered by rational people.

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Yep.. cause you said so.
You win.

Wait that's not how it goes is it, shit.

Steven Steve fucked around with this message on 03-06-2008 at 07:20 AM.

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Bent over the coffee table, Kaiote* squealed:
How can you have belief beyond a shadow of a doubt.. without absolute proof either way?

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Here it is in small words for the thinking impaired (you):

1. It's not possible to prove the non-existence of a thing.

2. It is possible to prove the existence of a thing.

3. In the absence of proof that something exists, disbelief is the only logical position, and requires no evidence in support.

4. Your statement is, once again, nonsense.

Honestly, get a clue. You keep whining that people who say something doesn't exist somehow have a burden of proof and if they continue the assertion, that is tantamount to faith. This is wrong according to every principle of logic and rational thought. The person who has a positive assertion (God exists) has the burden of proof; failing that burden logically demonstrates the negative.

I have faith. I admit it is irrational.
I don't give a shit how the rest of you feel.

You win.
Move the fuck on.

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Verily, Kaiote* doth proclaim:
Ok.. I'll make this really fucking simple.

I have faith. I admit it is irrational.
I don't give a shit how the rest of you feel.

You win.
Move the fuck on.

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Nobody has a problem with your faith. Only when you try to pass it off as logical or claim that disbelief in something that can't be proven is illogical.

So I figure the only way to end it is to let everybody else win and feel superior.

So you guys win.

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Maradon! thought this was the Ricky Martin Fan Club Forum and wrote:
Anyway male dress shoes really suck

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All dress shoes suck.

I had to stand watch from midnight to 0800 last night. In my dress uniform. With new dress shoes. My feet are about to fall off.

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Bloodsage had this to say about the Spice Girls:
Yes.

Next question.

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Tell that to Descartes.

I hate that arrogant bitch.

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Vorbis startled the peaceful upland Gorillas, blurting:
Tell that to Descartes.

I hate that arrogant bitch.

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Yeah; it's a fun, but impractical notion.

So, something other than the mind must exist.

Therefore, Descartes is a douche.

Hypothesis proved.

Thank you Phenomenology!

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Kinanik said this about your mom:
Thinking requires an object to think about, because one can't think about 'nothing,' as it's not thinking.

So, something other than the mind must exist.

Therefore, Descartes is a douche.

Hypothesis proved.

Thank you Phenomenology!

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I guess thinking about the mind is just right out

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Quoth Arttemis:
I guess thinking about the mind is just right out

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Or pure imagination.

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Verily, the chocolate bunny rabbits doth run and play while Blindy. gently hums:
What was the last thing you didn't imagine that wasn't, when you break it down, a juxtaposition of things you have observed?

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It depends. If you go with Descartes, it's all the time. The point being, of course, that you can't disprove Descartes by claiming it's not possible to imagine something that doesn't exist.

The bottom line isn't that it's possible to disprove solipsism, but rather that it works out as an impractical, rather pointless philosophy. The next time someone pulls the, "Nothing but my mind can be proven to exist," bullshit, simply invite him or her to step out in front of the nearest car or train as a test of whose philosophy is best.