Reality as we know it is a huge lie.

[Jubel]

I have read and agreed to the Terms of Service.

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[Wizard]

This is a very great example of a reason not to believe you went to college.

[.::Taboo::.]

everything sucks, and nothing is necessary.
old news.

[Menen]

This topic made me

[Bloody Mary]

This is a very great example of a reason not to believe you went to college.

My degree was in philosophy.

[Wizard]

My degree was in philosophy.

Whoever passed you must have been a moron.

[Bloody Mary]

Whoever passed you must have been a moron.

Explain how, if you please.

[.::Taboo::.]

well he's right dontchaknow.

[Wizard]

Explain how, if you please.

The philosophical argument you just made was full of holes, first of all. I could debunk it. Are you also an astronaut and the president?

[.::Taboo::.]

The philosophical argument you just made was full of holes, first of all. I could debunk it. Are you also an astronaut and the president?

then do.

[Bloody Mary]

The philosophical argument you just made was full of holes, first of all. I could debunk it. Are you also an astronaut and the president?

Well, if you take everything I post as fact, then it might be a little confusing.
This isn't proof or anything. Just food for thought.

[Wizard]

This will shatter your petty ideas of reality and existence.
I you want to continue with your happy, care free life, turn back now. 



You Cannot Complete Any Goal

There are many, many ways to live, but it doesn't matter what you pick; you won't complete a single one.
Assume for a minute that anything you do has an ending point, because it does.
Before you can make it to that point, you must make it halfway there.

However, before you can make it halfway to the end point, you must accomplish half of your goal, which is a quarter of the total goal.
And before you can advance a quarter of the way there, you must first accomplish an eighth of your total goal. There is no distance that cannot be divided in half: one-sixteenth, one-thirty-second, one-sixty-fourth, and so on, ad infinitum.
Since you must accomplish an unlimited number of goals to reach the end point, you will never actually reach the end point. Perhaps, if you had infinite time, you might eventually reach the end point. Sadly, you don't; time is very finite, and it will run out long before you reach your goal.

Debunking this first paragraph debunks your whole argument as it is all based on the fallacious principle that progress cannot be made. This argument assumes that
a) Time cannot be divided into infinitely small segments which would allow for infinite decreasing of percentages allowing events to occur
AND
b) Events cannot progress by a definite amount as opposed to a fraction or amount in relation to something else.

NEITHER of these things have you demonstrated in your argument, occam's razor, better to assume that reality is real.

[Wynd_Fox]

6:06 PM - Human Reaper: So, this mathmetician and this scientist have dinner.
6:06 PM - Human Reaper: The mathmetician orders this great supper, whereas the scientist only has enough for a burger,
6:06 PM - Plazoupuss: Do enthuse me with your joke.
6:07 PM - Human Reaper: The mathy says to the scientist "You can have my supper if you reach it, scooting the chair forward only half the distance left each time." Mathy scoots it back ten feet.
6:07 PM - Human Reaper: The scientist agrees, and scoots forward halfway each time, until he's about a half foot away.
6:08 PM - Human Reaper: Doing it once more, he starts eating.
6:08 PM - Human Reaper: The mathy shouts that he could never really reach it and he was cheating.
6:08 PM - Human Reaper: "Technically I didn
6:08 PM - Human Reaper: 't reach it, true."
6:08 PM - Human Reaper: Says science, "But close enough."
6:08 PM - Plazoupuss: I'm confuzzled. Stop there.
6:09 PM - Human Reaper: Doesn't matter if one can never truly finish a goal.
6:09 PM - Human Reaper: It's close enough.



Relevant. Actually, my way of explaining to him that it doesn't matter.

[.::Taboo::.]

further foods: it is impossible to be one or two dimensional.

Debunking this first paragraph debunks your whole argument as it is all based on the fallacious principle that progress cannot be made. This argument assumes that
a) Time cannot be divided into infinitely small segments which would allow for infinite decreasing of percentages allowing events to occur Everything has an end and a beginning, even if it is beyond understanding.
AND
b) Events cannot progress by a definite amount as opposed to a fraction or amount in relation to something else. This one is more sketchy, and I'm not so sure.

NEITHER of these things have you demonstrated in your argument, occam's razor, better to assume that reality is real.

6:06 PM - Human Reaper: So, this mathmetician and this scientist have dinner.
6:06 PM - Human Reaper: The mathmetician orders this great supper, whereas the scientist only has enough for a burger,
6:06 PM - Plazoupuss: Do enthuse me with your joke.
6:07 PM - Human Reaper: The mathy says to the scientist "You can have my supper if you reach it, scooting the chair forward only half the distance left each time." Mathy scoots it back ten feet.
6:07 PM - Human Reaper: The scientist agrees, and scoots forward halfway each time, until he's about a half foot away.
6:08 PM - Human Reaper: Doing it once more, he starts eating.
6:08 PM - Human Reaper: The mathy shouts that he could never really reach it and he was cheating.
6:08 PM - Human Reaper: "Technically I didn
6:08 PM - Human Reaper: 't reach it, true."
6:08 PM - Human Reaper: Says science, "But close enough."
6:08 PM - Plazoupuss: I'm confuzzled. Stop there.
6:09 PM - Human Reaper: Doesn't matter if one can never truly finish a goal.
6:09 PM - Human Reaper: It's close enough.

Relevant. Actually, my way of explaining to him that it doesn't matter.

if one's goal is completion and it isn't reached, the goal hasn't been achieved.

[Bloody Mary]

Debunking this first paragraph debunks your whole argument as it is all based on the fallacious principle that progress cannot be made. This argument assumes that
a) Time cannot be divided into infinitely small segments which would allow for infinite decreasing of percentages allowing events to occur
AND
b) Events cannot progress by a definite amount as opposed to a fraction or amount in relation to something else.

NEITHER of these things have you demonstrated in your argument, occam's razor, better to assume that reality is real.

You're over thinking this.
It's not like I was saying this is absolute fact.
Rather, they're more like guidelines.