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Old Jan 28, 2004, 07:05 am   #11 (permalink) (top)
orgaelin
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Melon, I think your point in all that was that even if you're really really really certain, there still could have been some other thing that really happened or really is that you just didn't think of. In other words, you could always be wrong.

You're right!

There's always an element of uncertainty and a chance that you could be wrong (with some more so than with others!) but when we do arrive at a 'final' conclusion it is not based on absolutes, proof, or anything so concrete. (Actually maybe I should be saying 'me' instead of "we".)

Like I said in another post to you today, you have to always be open to new possibilities.

I have to wonder, though, why on earth you're ranting about Jesus in the science & technology section, in a topic which relates to time dilation!

I know you were taking the piss. But I've only seen (I think) two of your posts and both were taking the piss. Have you read the etiquette for this site? It has a link to a site which gives a lengthy treatise on 'how to argue' and it states very clearly, often in red and emboldened text, that the very moment you mock, or cause to look foolish or silly, your oponent in any argument/debate, you have lost.

'nuf said?


"Only two things are infinite,
the universe and human stupidity,
and I'm not sure about the former."
- Albert Einstein
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