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Is there anything thats an absolute truth?

Death is still undefeated. Ask Ted Williams frozen ass
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LUClEN said:
There are but humans aren't capable of knowing everything. Due to the limit on our own knowledge, and the fact that we are human and have human perspectives, there is always some degree of relativeness to what we know and think is true. Even if something seems absolutely true, there isn't really a way to know with 100% percent certainty

Chicity smart ass probably going to say mathematic proofs are absolute, but if we're being honest, a proof is only true relative to its context within a specific field.
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2+2=4
 
BRIAN B. said:
All we have is now

the past doesn't exist nor the future, jus right now
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Past* and future have existence when thought about. Past are your memories. Future is your imagination. If they are not thought about through those means they do not exist. Well not in this dimension anyway.
 
If you hit a man, in time his wounds will heal. If you steal from a man, you can replace what you've stolen
 
Chicity said:
2+2=4
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Those symbols have meaning, which in the context of a specific mathematic tradition, equal a true statement. However, in the context of the entire universe, there are instances where 2+2 ≠ 4

Believe it or not, sometimes 2 + 2 does not equal 4. It depends on what type of measurement scale you are using. There are four types of measurement scales – nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio. Only in the last two categories does 2 + 2 = 4. Let me explain.

All the nominal scale does is name or classify. Each number merely represents a category or individual. For example, numbers on baseball or football uniforms are only nominal. Having the number "1" on your uniform does not necessarily mean you are "numero uno" (the best) in your sport. Social security numbers are also nominal. All they do is name or classify the individual.

The ordinal scale has all the qualities of the nominal scale plus the ability to rank objects according to some attribute. If you ranked all the members of a group according to height, "1" would be the tallest, "2" the second tallest and so on. However, the intervals between these rankings are not necessarily equal. If the tallest people were 5'11", 5'8" and 5'7", respectively, the interval between the first two ranks would be 3 inches, while the interval between the last two is only 1 inch. Ranking in various sports and beauty contests are also only ordinal scales.

An interval scale combines the qualities of the previous scales with equal intervals. The best example would be a centigrade (Celcius) thermometer. The change in heat between 0oC and 10oC is the same as between 10oC and 20oC. But watch out! 20oC is not twice as hot as 10oC! Why? Interval scales have arbitrary zeros (just because we decided to call it zero), rather than absolute (true) zeros. At 0oC water freezes, but that does not mean that there is no heat.

In contrast, the ratio scale has all the qualities of the previous scales plus an absolute (true) zero, as with a Kelvin thermometer. At 0oK, theoretically there is no heat. You have nothing of what you are measuring, therefore the zero is true or absolute. However, 0oK = -273oC. Since one degree indicates the same heat change in both scales, we can see what happens when we compare them.

20oC = 293oK
10oC = 283oK
0oC = 273oK
-273oC = 0oK

Thus 20oC is not twice as hot as 10oC! Although this may seem confusing, it becomes very clear when you switch to the Kelvin scale – 293oK definitely does not even look like it is twice as hot as 283oK. Only with a ratio scale – with a true zero – can you correctly use the concept of multiples. Length, height, and weight are ratio scales. Therefore, you can correctly say that "A yard is three times longer than a foot" or "A 200-pound man weighs twice as much as a 100-pound woman."


Source: http://virgil.azwestern.edu/~dag/lol/TwoPlusTwo.html
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Cain said:
Only that is absolute is............... you'll be dead way longer than you'll be alive
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You're technically just guessing. You don't actually have the knowledge to know this for certain. For all you know, someone might find a scientific cure for death and you'll live until the end of time
 
LUClEN said:
You're technically just guessing. You don't actually have the knowledge to know this for certain. For all you know, someone might find a scientific cure for death and you'll live until the end of time
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Nor do you......matter a fact everything you just typed is speculation and if's. There's no if's to death and life. You'll be born then you'll die. That's fact
 
Cain said:
Nor do you......matter a fact everything you just typed is speculation and if's. There's no if's to death and life. You'll be born then you'll die. That's fact
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Get out of here. I'm not even dead yet. You aren't Raven Simone, dawgg

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Cain said:
Nor do you......matter a fact everything you just typed is speculation and if's. There's no if's to death and life. You'll be born then you'll die. That's fact
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we dont know whats after death.....thats speculation that its the end....it could be a new beginning to another life
 
B_A said:
Past* and future have existence when thought about. Past are your memories. Future is your imagination. If they are not thought about through those means they do not exist. Well not in this dimension anyway.
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worryin bout the past is regret, worryin bout the future is anxiety

all we have is the here & now
 
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