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  • What do we really know?
    @PoeticUniverse What if there is a fourth one that our eyes can't percieve and there is a wider spectrum of colours than that of which we currently know of. What I am trying to say that our experiences are limited by our senses from which we derive our empirical knowledge. For example trees do make a noise and if men in past believed that trees are unable to make noise they would have been wrong although their judgement was in accordance with their perception. How can we trust our sense when they have already deceived us in the past and we will know more about this deception as science will progress.
  • What do we really know?
    Once people believed that earth only consists of four elements. However science progressed and now we have a whole periodic table. Maybe a thousand years later, humankind would be able to prove things wrong the that we judge right today. Hence we are never able to prove anything and our knowledge is constricted and always will to our senses and intellect which isn't infinte and might omit details that mankind is never able to know. Colours are infinite yet we are unable to imagine any new colour. Yes one can say that with our current abilities this is how far we have reached in understanding our surroundings but can't prove in any that what we know is true. Hence absolute certainty in any matter including knowledge is just a delusion.
  • What do we really know?
    In my opinion that is only related to things that are provable . For we know that there are other galaxies beside milky way but how we are able to prove or trust that. Neither it is something that will happen like morning. However it is part of our knowledge. And if something keep on happens, its not neccessary that it is true or could be a part of our knowledge. For example of someone keeps on doing good things but has a malicious intent, we know him to be good and think that we are knowledganle however in reality it is our ignorance which we discern as knowledge
  • What do we really know?
    rectifying yourself isn't a part of knowing in my opinion. I think knowing is related only to knowledge rather than actions of someone
  • What do we really know?
    One word answer Nothing. We know what our senses perceive. And there is no gurantee what we percieve is right. Even if the authorities are conveying the true message but we are unable to perceive it correctly and yet believe that we understood that correctly. And even if we are perceiving correctly and all of our senses are on the spot(something that we couod bever know) what the authorities are conveying there is no possible way to have absolute certainty that what authorities conveyed was true. Even if the message conveyed explains our everyday life accurately. An example would be how quantum mechanics led to decline the decline of newtanian physics as newtanion physics was able to explain ecerything correctly but not on the microscopic level which people discovered as science progressed. At the end it boils down to what Socrates said " I know nothing and I know that I know nothing". I hope I was able to interpret the meaning of your post correctly and would be glad if I contributed something meaningful to the discussion. If not, forgive me. Feel free to reply or criticize.
  • We Don't Matter
    I think matter is used here to convey the meaning how significant we are. To whom? Maybe to the universe. Yep there surely are people to whom we matter and to us they matter. What i meant to say was that our souls are significa t than the universe that surrounds us. Free reply to reply or criticize.
  • We Don't Matter
    We don't matter as universe will continue to exist whether we exist or not. Maybe universe doesn't cares about us but we do care about our own selves. What matters is our soul. Maybe our soul doesn't belong to this physical universe but was originated in a metaphysical realm and longs to go back there as no physical thing was ever able to satisfy our soul for a long period of time. So if you look at things this way, its the universe that doesn't not us(our souls).
  • On perfection
    TBH i dont really know what perfection is. Maybe what you are saying is right if you link it with uniformity. But my opinion about perfection is related with Divinity and i feel like it is impossible for a normal human being to perceive perfection with its worldly sense. Its nice talking with you.
  • On perfection
    Perfection is an absolute and can't be associated with any living thing or any form of art because the universe we live in, there is notthing absolute except for the speed of light. On the other hand perfection associated with divinity doesn't simply arise form the fact that God is far more superior than us also form his benevolent nature. If we remove the concept form of goodness from our our conception of God, than he is not perfect but simply a superior being whom we acknowledge and bow down to. All that I have said is simply my opinion which might differ form yours.

Sheik Yerbouti

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