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Ophiolite

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“Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that,
unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.”


― Blaise Pascal
"At first Arthur was surprised as he peered into the pit, for, contrary to his expectations it seemed empty. Gradually though, like a landscape appearing through a mist burned off by the rising sun, he began to make out shapes; dim, gargantuan, with a hint of movement and potential for more. Growth continued, not in size, but in vitality and colour and a sense of purpose. Arthur was carried along and aloft by a burgeoning sense of wonder, allied to panic. He did not, could not, recognise that this other, soul-capturing world dwelt entirely in his mind, a mind now compromised beyond surcease."
 
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“Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that,
unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.”


― Blaise Pascal
"Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary."

― Blaise Pascal
 
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"Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary."

― Blaise Pascal

Faith is an ordinary topic

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In the context of Atlantis
 
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“Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that,
unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.”


― Blaise Pascal

And given how widespread such falsehood is, we need some method to verify what is claimed to be truth.
 
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Bungle_Bear

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yes but… you would not understand
What a delightfully arrogant and condescending response. But in the form of an egregious one liner, it really only serves to underline the point I was making.
hence I'm speaking only of history
Lol. No, you really aren't. You talking woo and pseudoscience with references to history in poor attempts to make it sound credible.
 
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True and irrelevant. What I can see is your denial of truth

“The wise speak only of what they know … keep your forked tongue behind your teeth. I have not passed through fire and death to bandy words with a serving-man till the lightning falls.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
 
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“The wise speak only of what they know … keep your forked tongue behind your teeth. I have not passed through fire and death to bandy words with a serving-man till the lightning falls.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
Trite quotes. While marginally better than your one-liners, they're not even your own words.

"There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true."
-Soren Kierkegaard
 
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