Re: virus: FWD: The nature of truth

Tadeusz Niwinski (tad@teta.ai)
Tue, 18 Feb 1997 15:42:37 -0800


Jar 148 with Dave Pape wrote:

>Anyway, we've had 2500 years of rationality based on logic and there's still
>debate amongst scientists about how we think, how our bodies function, how
>diseases work, how the ecology of Earth works, etc.

Cool down, man :-) I may have bad news for you: it's almost certain we will
never be able to know "all truth".

[...]
>Prove to me that we can determine truth, because: As long as I doubt in any
>way that we can (remember the middle name), then "we" have not determined
>truth: "we" are in doubt because /I/ am in doubt. So "we can't determine
>truth". I think that failing to convince me proves my case.

OK, I am not going to prove anyting. It's an *axiom*. You either believe
it or not. What Richard/David R. is trying to convey is that con-artists
try to convince you that you are not capable of finding truth, so you are
confused enough to follow them and believe their religion, Scientology,
Level-3 meme-flexing, or whatever it is.

Dave, please, if you want your memes to survive, whatever you do, don't
trust those people!

Regards, Tadeusz (Tad) Niwinski from planet TeTa
tad@teta.ai http://www.teta.ai (604) 985-4159