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Wednesday, January 24, 2007


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I'm out of room on my profile so for now, I'll post this here. It made me laugh to no end, which is a shocking feet when reading "The Universe Next Door" by James W. Sire. To set the stage, this chapter that the following quote is taken from is talking about Nihilism, the "philosophy" that denies philosophies, the possibility of knowledge, denies everything. In short, how can we know that what we see is real or what fact is true? It's much more complicated than that and a very extreme and dangerous thought process.

"The skeptic is never for real. There he stands, cocktail in hand, left arm draped languorously on one end of the mantelpiece, telling you that he can't be sure of anything, not even his own existence. I'll give you my secret method of demolishing universal skeptism in four words. Whisper to him: "Your fly is open." If he thinks knowledge is so all-fired impossible, why does he always look?"

The quote above is by Robert Farrar Capon, used by Sire to prove a point. Enjoy =^_^=

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