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Comment on: Is life a fact or an opinion?

Bigthink — Wed, 28 May 2008 16:49:07 +0100

I'm pretty certain that there are only two real 'facts' in the world. I would however call them certainties:

Death and taxes.

Oh yes - and also according to the writer Douglas Adams, also 'Digital Watches'. There's some truth in this.. :)

Comment on: Is life a fact or an opinion?

Bigthink — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 03:37:39 +0100

Are you telling me that Legality and Morality are not at all related?

I was damn sure they tried to link the two and make it "FACT"...

Comment on: Is life a fact or an opinion?

Bigthink — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:42:48 +0100

Fact is merely how you choose to perceive the world around you. This is why theists believe that the existence of heaven,hell,god and so forth are fact, whereas atheists believe the exact opposite. So then we come to another question: who, or what, dictates what the masses will perceive as fact? The simple answer is human gullibility: no matter what we accomplish, we will always be curious, yet, paradoxically, stupid creatures, and therefore gullible to what someone in a position of authority tells us. As for how one develops an opinion, it is through multiple factors: perhaps they question the facts that they are being told, or maybe, as you stated above, life experience. The possibilities are as endless as the Universe itself-if in fact, the Universe is really endless.