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Anything multiplied by zero is zero since it cannot logically be anything else As what other possible answer is there to infinity times zero other than zero The fact that infinity is not a number is not relevant because the principle also applies to non numbers There is not a single thing that does ...

A perfect ontological God can certainly be perceived to exist but could such a God exist in reality Because such a being could not be separate from reality rather part of it just like everything else Anything perfect can be conceived by the mind but it cannot be translated to reality because it impo...

Scientific knowledge is justified true beliefs as being justified through the scientific methods and peer review thus are objective All scientific theories are merely the best approximation of what is objectively true Science does not deal in absolute certainty other than with disproof or falsifica...

God is an unknowable because God do not have any empirical elements thus impossible to be real There is more than one definition of God The metaphysical triple omni God of classical theism may be unknowable but that is just one interpretation The God of pantheism is definitely knowable because that...

jayjacobus wrote:
One cannot teach without using words and words have definitions

Yes but using a word to define a word is confusing and contradictory which is why its not done
A word can only be defined by other words because the definition may not be fully understood

To me Consciousness IS just thee Observer and Seer of ALL THERE IS or in other words Consciousness is just the One non dual Knower of ALL things To me Existence is non dual as everything is connected to everything else in one seamless connection I do not see it as being conscious as such but there ...

Maybe you and I have different definitions for the word reality How you do define the word reality For me there are words whose definitions are exactly the same in relation to your question These words are Reality - Universe - Existence and I define them simply as ALL THAT EXISTS You said you and I...

Immanuel Can wrote:
You write this message in the prospect of convincing somebody

You could not be more wrong as I write so that others more wiser than I can correct any flaws in whatever I say
I therefore have zero intention of convincing anyone of anything I write for I lack both certainty and arrogance

Whatever is non empirically [ not p ] cannot be empirical [ p ] in the future There is no way a non empirical square circle can be an empirical possibility What is possible is for anything that is not known yet but is empirically possible to be proven to be empirical when the empirical evidences ar...

Reality does not know what our mental state is but it is reality that actually determines the future Therefore us being able to project any imaginary one will have no effect upon what reality will do Randomness by definition pertains to all possibilities having an equal chance of coming to pass Huma...

We cannot make reality at all as what happens is that reality imposes upon us and we simply have to accept it as it is If that were true and that were the whole story then nothing we imagine could be brought to bear fruit in the future The relationship between what we imagine will happen and what r...

Eodnhoj wrote:
Did the mind invent the dot or did the dot invent the mind

The dot as a point in space came before the mind as space existed long before humans ever did
But I dont think the dot invented the mind but the mind did eventually perceive the dot though

Even then one cannot be certain as not all suicides are successful
No one knows the exact time of their death only that they will die
The future is therefore always a blank slate as it has yet to happen

A real table would still not be as real as it appeared to us as it is composed of atoms and 99 per cent of an atom is empty space Therefore 99 per cent of the table viewed through human eyes is really an optical illusion Our senses are therefore incredibly unreliable when it comes to seeing anything...

surreptitious57 wrote:
So we are not the masters of our destiny as the future cannot be known

Death is an absolute certainty but no one knows exactly when they will die