Pudding
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@JosIDK what to believe and the search for any type of truth and knowledge seems pointless, idk, I'm rambling.Reasons can be:What's the point in searching for truth or knowledge?
- Some people need to satisfy their curiosity.
- Some people feeling bored, they have to find something to do.
- Some people are interested to do so.
- Some people need knowledge to solve their problems.
- A lot of times, a lot of different kinds of knowledges can be useful.
Medical knowledge can cure many disease. The knowledge of making transportation helps us go from place to place efficiently. The knowledge of constructing computer, internet and phone give us the ability to communicating with each other far away when we need to communicating with each other.
Do you still think that searching for any type of knowledge is pointless?
How many types of certainty are there? Please list all of them here, thank you.No I'm not sure that's why I said it seems that we can't know rather than I definitely know for sure that we can't know anything with absolute certainty.Do you know for sure that "we cannot know anything for sure"?It doesn't seem as though we can know anything for sure or with any type of certainty
It doesn't seem as though we can know anything for sure?
We cannot know for sure that very likely we'll die if we jump off the air plane from 38,000 feet (no parachutes equip on us)?
We cannot know for sure that we'll die if we don't ingest any food, drink, other nutrition substance and anything for 30 years?
We cannot know for sure that we'll die if we don't breathe for 24 hours?
Do you still think that we cannot know anything for sure?
Our brain and senses lie to us?My point is that humans are fallible and our brain and senses lie to us so even if we were to have knowledge how can we trust if we've interpreted the knowledge correctly.
Who are the "us" you referring to here? All humans?
Our brain and senses lie to us, sometimes, or all the times?
Our brain and senses lie to us about what? For example...? (please elaborate with real life examples)
Not ultimately, certainly.I know that but again I asked because it seems an argument can be made both for and against a God's existence, so it ultimately seems unknowable.It can be because some people want to know whether such evidence exists or not.What's the point in asking for evidence in favor of or against a God's existence?
Whether it's unknowable or not, depends on how strong/weak (or convincing/unconvincing) the evidence for or against the existence of a specific God.
(1) Strong evidence for a specific God; weak evidence against that God = convince a person that that God exists. To that person, it's knowable that that God exists.
(2) Weak evidence for a specific God; strong evidence against that God = convince a person that that God doesn't exists. To that person, it's knowable that that God doesn't exist.
(3) The evidence for and against a specific God is equally weak = a person is not convince that "that God exists", he/she also not convince that "that God doesn't exist". To that person, it's unknowable that whether that God exists or not.
(4) The evidence for and against a specific God is equally strong = a person is confuse whether that God exists or not. To that person, it's unknowable that whether that God exists or not.
Thanks for clarify.Any and all Gods.Which religion's God are you referring to in your statement?It seems as though one could argue both for and against one given the evidence available.
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