Originally posted by Belcastro
reply to post by AthlonSavage

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As they say we must find the "Truth Within Ourselves."

And if I choose neither? What is my true feeling on your correctness?

Truth is a matter of perception, which, while sometimes externally verifiable, remains largely subjective on a individual to individual basis.

Originally posted by AthlonSavage

reply to post by KilgoreTrout

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Truth is a matter of perception, which, while sometimes externally verifiable, remains largely subjective on a individual to individual basis.

I challenge anyone to stick their hand in fire for a minute. Perception is one thing but the levergae bar of time always wins out.

When two bodies of different temperatures meet, the hotter body will cool off, and the cooler body will heat up, until they are separated or until they meet at a temperature in between.[16] What that temperature is, and how quickly it is reached, depends on the thermodynamic properties of the two bodies. The important properties are temperature, density, specific heat capacity, and thermal conductivity.

The square root of the product of thermal conductivity, density, and specific heat capacity is called thermal effusivity, and tells how much heat energy the body absorbs or releases in a certain amount of time per unit area when its surface is at a certain temperature. Since the heat taken in by the cooler body must be the same as the heat given by the hotter one, the surface temperature must lie closer to the temperature of the body with the greater thermal effusivity. The bodies in question here are human feet (which mainly consist of water) and burning coals.

Due to these properties, David Willey, professor of physics with the University of Pittsburgh, says he believes firewalking is explainable in terms of basic physics and is not supernatural nor paranormal.[17] Willey notes that most fire-walks occur on coals that measure about 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit (550 degrees Celsius), but he once recorded someone walking on 1,800-degree (1,000 °C) coals.[4]

Or you could say, that if you expect to burn, then you will...but if you expect not to burn, you will not...I can pass my hand through a flame and feel heat...leave it for too long and I will probably start to cook...you didn't set time parametres for the exercise you suggest...so for example...

Originally posted by AthlonSavage
reply to post by KilgoreTrout

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Or you could say, that if you expect to burn, then you will...but if you expect not to burn, you will not...I can pass my hand through a flame and feel heat...leave it for too long and I will probably start to cook...you didn't set time parametres for the exercise you suggest...so for example...

Flicking your hand thru flame is a different event to leaving it stationary in flame. Time permeates both but the truth outcomes are different.

And therefore you have just affirmed that 'truth' is a variable

How long is 'long enough'? Is 'long enough' an equal amount for all participants in the experiment? Will all experience the same degree of burning? Not necessarily.

The 'truth' of the matter therefore is only that fire has the potential to burn flesh, but that burning is not a foregone conclusion of exposure to fire.