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Messages - Pyromaniac605
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« on: February 01, 2012, 08:10:15 PM »
You have to believe, and trust your senses. Something you can't see, smell, hear, touch, taste... is it really there? That's where faith comes in. Something you can't perceive with your senses
But that's the thing! Even something you CAN see, hear touch, or taste may not be real. The senses are easily fooled, and it could all be an illusion, so it's really no less logical to believe in something you can't see than to believe in what you can see.
This is ridiculous, sure your senses can be fooled from time to time, but the chance that every single one of your senses, and those of other people can all be fooled into experiencing the same thing is so infinitesimally small the only logical conclusion is that what is being experienced is real.
It's real to us, perhaps, but it may not be real in the absolute sense.
Please explain how something that can be felt, seen, heard, tasted and smelt by every living person (Minus those who lack certain senses) could not be real.
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« on: February 01, 2012, 07:36:55 PM »
You have to believe, and trust your senses. Something you can't see, smell, hear, touch, taste... is it really there? That's where faith comes in. Something you can't perceive with your senses
But that's the thing! Even something you CAN see, hear touch, or taste may not be real. The senses are easily fooled, and it could all be an illusion, so it's really no less logical to believe in something you can't see than to believe in what you can see.
This is ridiculous, sure your senses can be fooled from time to time, but the chance that every single one of your senses, and those of other people can all be fooled into experiencing the same thing is so infinitesimally small the only logical conclusion is that what is being experienced is real.
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« on: February 01, 2012, 04:14:43 PM »
Not the entire knowledge of the human race, just everything based on perception.
Care to explain what human knowledge isn't based on perception?
As I said, math. Math is pure logic, which means it is a priori. Everything else, however, requires faith in your own perception, not to mention the perceptions of others who almost certainly do not perceive thing exactly as you do.
Sure math is pure logic, but if you can't trust your senses that means you can only use it in your mind without it being subject to mistakes. Besides, if I were a brain-in-a-vat, I would have no way to know, none at all, and unless I can trust my own perceptions and the perceptions of others I would have no way of knowing anything.
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« on: February 01, 2012, 06:50:16 AM »
Not the entire knowledge of the human race, just everything based on perception.
Care to explain what human knowledge isn't based on perception?
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« on: January 31, 2012, 06:40:31 PM »
Mathematics is the one absolute truth in the universe because it's principles can be proven solely through logic. Thus, it is synthetic a priori knowledge. My main point however, is that you cannot prove the existence of the chair you sit in any more than you can prove the existence of a God, unless you have faith in your own perception. Yet to not believe in your own perception would be considered illogical.
You've seen The Matrix at some point, haven't you? :P
Probably, MNB does seem to be using the "brain in a vat" argument to try and refute the entire knowledge of the human race.
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« on: January 31, 2012, 07:20:47 AM »
Trying to find a place that has Bakemonogatari episodes that actually load. It's harder than it sounds with MegaVideo gone
Animefreak.tv?
Haven't actually found Bakemonogatari on there.
Though it's messy, I'm using gogoanime atm
Here it is.
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« on: January 31, 2012, 06:55:32 AM »
You Saved Science - Portal 2 soundtrack
Outset Island Redux - ZREO The Wind Waker
Godot ~ The Fragrance of Dark Coffee - Noriyuki Iwadare
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« on: January 31, 2012, 06:33:48 AM »
Double Lariat - Piko Utatane
I have a song called Double Lariat, sung by Megurine Luka (The vocaloid), is it the same song?
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« on: January 31, 2012, 06:32:32 AM »
Trying to find a place that has Bakemonogatari episodes that actually load. It's harder than it sounds with MegaVideo gone
Animefreak.tv?
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« on: January 31, 2012, 12:06:18 AM »
Ferris Bueller 2, the entire movie.
Aww... 
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« on: January 30, 2012, 11:01:51 PM »
Thief 4?
....
*disappointed*
Theif 4 would be awesome too, but Ferris Bueller 2 isn't that bad either. (Assuming it doesn't suck as so many late sequels do)
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« on: January 30, 2012, 10:59:39 PM »
The point where you no longer allow people to see you on this forum because everyone's avatars and sigs are overly gay or pony and question what the **** your looking at.
feelsbaddog
Yes, this is dog. Honestly though, I really don't get this whole brony thing, my friend convinced me to watch an episode and it wasn't really anything special.
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« on: January 30, 2012, 10:58:26 PM »
I don't have to prove jack. That's what faith is for.
And that's exactly the problem with having "faith", blindly following a load of nonsense without any supporting evidence just because you were brainwashed at a young age.
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« on: January 30, 2012, 07:33:32 PM »
This looks pretty good. Will the physics be on par with the usual standards in games today? Will torque reaction bots work how they do IRL?
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« on: January 30, 2012, 07:26:42 PM »
The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence!
You could say the same thing about anything, a teapot orbiting the sun between Mars and Earth's orbits, invisible flying unicorns, the Loch Ness Monster etc. The burden of proof is on those making the unfalsifiable claims, not those denying them.
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« on: January 30, 2012, 06:48:20 AM »
Valhalla doesn't seem to exist just as much as Jotunn do
you can't prove the nonexistence of afterlife !
You can't prove the non-existence of leprechauns.
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« on: January 30, 2012, 06:11:11 AM »
Seeing Through ~ Surge Glance - Toshihiko Horiyama
Colors - Flow
Pursuit ~ Caught - Noriyuki Iwadare
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« on: January 30, 2012, 06:00:02 AM »
Okay, I'll keep it as this then.
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« on: January 30, 2012, 05:52:35 AM »
Should I just rename this the "Music Discussion Thread"?
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« on: January 30, 2012, 05:51:39 AM »
 I am tempted to take up Odin worship.
Well, he did fulfil his promise to rid the land of ice giants... 
Couldn't care less about Jotunn since they don't seem to exist. What I want is Valhalla.
Valhalla doesn't seem to exist just as much as Jotunn do, but feasting and battling does sound like an interesting afterlife...
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