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I agree with this. The things that tend to bother me most in life are things that don't change. (At least not in a human lifetime.)

Change happens. It's not directly applicable to my worldview save for the fact that when something changes, a new response is required. -Lyn

My religion doesn't have a name and no it does not require believing in a deity. 0 no n/a no Except for the doubt one, they apply, but the answers are no. -Lyn

No, I don't think a god has to be omniscient and omnipotent if it exists. In general I think omnipotent and omniscience are fairly useless terms anyway, since they're often defined as the ability to do or know "everything". They're so vague as to the point of being unhelpful. Instead, a god...

You're talking past me. Part of it is my fault, but I've been trying to address it and you don't seem to be listening. In our first post exchange, we were talking past each other, but after you clarified what you meant, I understood your position and understood the differences in our...

This is true, and I was thinking in a more limited and specific context when I said that, so it was a mistake for me to phrase it like that. I responded about falsifiability to the original post, but then when he asked his second question and I answered it, I was merely meaning to answer his...

Let me explain once more. I'm not falsifying the claim, "I exist", but that is irrelevant. The underlying question is whether knowledge can be had that is not falsifiable. My answer is no, unless one delves into semantics. Asking to show that the claim "I exist" is falsifiable is...

Which is exactly why the idea is falsifiable in principle. This post showing that they are the same is unnecessary and misses what I was saying in my last post. The idea is falsifiable in principle because we can both prove that it is true and we can show that the opposite is false. So...

The problem I solved was the OP's question. Post #6 in this thread was: This post, by the OP, sparked the discussion on whether proof of the existence of the self is falsifiable. My two posts after that (#8 and #13) showed that a) One can prove that their self exists and b) One can...

I already explained this in this thread. I'll elaborate. It is possible to prove the statement, "I exist", but it is not possible to falsify, even in principle, the statement, "I exist". BUT, to get around this, we can falsify the negative, because the negative is falsifiable in principle...

That's what emoticons are for. People don't always use them correctly, though.

I do think that bills should be fully read by those voting on them, but I also recognize that with the amount of material being put forth, this may not be possible. So I think part of the solution involves not trying to pass 1000+ page bills that get edited constantly. I'm not a political...

Wow, so I guess this thread is finished, eh? Well, 200+ posts was a pretty good run. Thanks all. -Lyn

[/B]Oh, I bet there are things.

Some people here have different morals than you. As I said earlier in this thread, there are likely things you do that I find to be very immoral. Humility is a virtue. -Lyn

Well it least it sparked the thread back up. :) I think this is my longest running thread. Usually I ask weird stuff and nobody seems to be on the same page.

You seem to acknowledge the correct definition here, but then misuse it. In your first statement there, you show that you understand that something that is falsifiable should at least be falsifiable in principle if it were indeed false. But then in your second statement, you talk about how...

Wicked Willow, this seems a decent place for me to continue our discussion regarding how you view the quality of the universe unless of course you don't want to. And of course there need not be proselytizing or personal testimony involved because we sure wouldn't want that now would we. =/...

So, one can simply rephrase it. If I did not exist, I could not think. I am thinking right now as I write this. Therefore, it is not true that I do not exist.

I'd consider myself sort of a moderate minimalist. We've got a computer, and kitchen appliances that came with our apartment. Our furniture is extremely basic such that if one were to enter our apartment without knowing much about us, they'd suspect that we were just moving in. We've got a...