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originally posted by: GreenGunther
A hydrogen atom is an atom of the chemical element hydrogen. The electrically neutral atom contains a single positively charged proton and a single negatively charged electron bound to the nucleus by the Coulomb force.
originally posted by: Dark Ghost
originally posted by: GreenGunther
A hydrogen atom is an atom of the chemical element hydrogen. The electrically neutral atom contains a single positively charged proton and a single negatively charged electron bound to the nucleus by the Coulomb force.
It's always interesting to see people give this type of response when pressed for claiming absolute truths exist.
Science is open to questions and revision, which means none of the "knowledge" it elicits is fixed and unchangeable. What if it is discovered that the nature of a hydrogen atom as it is currently understood changes at some point in the future, and your current definition no longer accurately applies?
Therefore, your example is a relative instance of an absolute truth and not a fixed one. It is relative because it relies on a human framework of knowledge that is incomplete and not absolute. Unless you can claim that we have discovered everything about everything that can be discovered?
originally posted by: Bluesma
Personally, I no longer choose to have relationships with people who are more concerned with claiming possession of absolute truth than experiencing the present and others, with love.
originally posted by: vethumanbeing
The Absolute is infallible. It is comprised of 7 cosmic laws within those are no mistakes or missteps. Even Chaos has order.
originally posted by: Bluesma
originally posted by: vethumanbeing
The Absolute is infallible. It is comprised of 7 cosmic laws within those are no mistakes or missteps. Even Chaos has order.
That's nice. How are you today? Have you had much winter where you are?
I've always wondered - did you paint that dog in your avatar? Was the model a compagnon of yours?
My birthright in France (champagne region).
Bluesma: Wow! You mean that painting got given away and you re-found it??? That is amazing!
We're down in the south of France, and this year, we didn't have a winter, basically. We live at a high altitude and usually have snow, but didn't this year. I barely needed a sweater. The fruit trees went into bloom in January.
As much as I understand this is *bad* (especially for the farmers) I must admit I prefer it, as I am originally used to the desert of California. You were born in France? How funny! You are no longer in that country though, right? Like me!
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Bluesma: Well, there you go. In the shared reality of this earth and the landmasses on it, which we both acknowledge, we have found some interesting things we have in common, and some things we can relate on.
Bluesma: It's a funny sort of irony that so many look for the universal truths that will pull us together in the spiritual and mental realms, when actually, physics and the sciences, our sensual experiences, are the only guarantee of universal comprehension. One can even communicate with animals upon sensual experience and sensual memory