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[quote=Advocate post_id=509348 time=1619815202 user_id=15238]If there are no exceptions, it's the best story because it does the best work.[/quote]There are no exceptions to the story 'God did it'. So is god the best story?
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That answer leads to 100% exceptions, beginning with there being as many versions of god as there are people, so fuck off.
[quote=Advocate post_id=509348 time=1619815202 user_id=15238]If there are no exceptions, it's the best story because it does the best work.[/quote]There are no exceptions to the story 'God did it'. So is god the best story?
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That answer leads to 100% exceptions, beginning with there being as many versions of god as there are people, so fuck off.
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This has been common knowledge for at least two and a half millennia. As Xenophanes said:
"But mortals suppose gods are born,
Wear their own clothes and have a voice and body.
The Ethiopians say that their gods are flat-nosed and black,
While Thracians say that theirs have blue eyes and red hair.
Yet if cattle or horses or lions had hands and could draw,
And could sculpt like men, then the horses would draw their gods
Like horses, and cattle like cattle; and each would shape
Bodies of gods in the likeness, each of their own kind".
People who create gods wish us to believe that gods create believers in their own image.
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If I understand your question, "the best that is possible," is not good enough to qualify as, "true." The statistical never identifies what is actually, "so," only what might be, what is likely, etc. One good graphic example of established truth (which no statistical analysis could ever have produced) is the periodic chart of the chemical elements. The properties of sulfur, for example, are not just statistically likely, but absolute, because if any substance, not matter how similar to sulfur it seemed, did not have the exact properties sulfur described in the periodic chart, it would not be sulfur.
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you might know that but by the posting of such as the one i posted to don't seem to get that fact do they?
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ok, so i misunderstood your posting, but here one can presumed that postings are contentious rather than agreeable. disregard that last transmission.
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DP, I am also interested in what other philosophical questions you might have in mind.
No contentiousness intended.
No contentiousness intended.
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you don't want to know what's in my mind, it would put you to sleep, but since you askedcommonsense wrote: ↑Mon May 03, 2021 9:01 pm DP, I am also interested in what other philosophical questions you might have in mind.
No contentiousness intended.
how about a thread in this section instruction, knowledge? just started.