[Jerseee]

KT,



So the focus should be on presenting your own beliefs in such a way as to persuade the listener that they (your belief(s)) correspond to reality? If not, then what other way could there possibly be? Believe anything you wish to without reprisal or persecution. This is one thing that Jesus died for. It was in the name of the Father but, IMHO it was for free will too. It is not true love if one was persuaded into loving God through duress and persecution.





You say you are unsure.....Does that mean you have a few ideas but not sure which will work?



Or are you pretty much coming up empty on ideas altogether?



I am still foggy on your point view on the external reality that you are experiencing. I say "unsure" because I cannot speak for all--just point out what the source ofthe problem is. Just keep in mind, none of this can exist wthout acceptance. If folks accept it or anthing to be true--then it is for them--even if the reality of it all says otherwise. Our economic system is a good example.



What are your thoughts, if any, on a theory of "Absolute Truth"? Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.



Are you absolutely positive that you are not sitting in a small pod plugged into a large computer that is pumping sensual data directly into your brain while your body just lies permanently motionless and unconscious? right now--I cannot disconnect the energy produced from the reality that recognizes the energy and returns such reality through sense data. I exist therfore, I am.



Are you 100% certain that your entire life did not begin just an hour ago and that all your memories are really just implants meant to fool you? no not 100%



Why is it that when you are dreaming, you don't realize that you are dreaming? Your brain is completely fooled into thinking that your observations are real no matter how much your obsevations violate the physical laws of the mechanical universe. How do you know that this same thing isn't happening while you are awake?

Is day dreaming the answer you're searching for?



I was doing the crossword puzzle today and I thought that maybe I could just put in whatever answer I wanted and the puzzle would just come together anyway. I told everyone else in the room to put in whatever they thought was the true answer, since if they thought it was true then it was indeed true. Hmmm nope..didn't work, it ended up that there was only one solution. In the end, everyone had to reconsider what they thought to be the "True" answers in favor of the answers that actually solved the puzzle.



Kaos' Parable of the Crossword. Whatcha think? So if the puzzle was already solved prior to the answers given--did it really make everyone's answers false? Hhmmmm interesting.