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Originally Posted by homoperfect
This depends on the type of justification you're using. I myself tend to side with Descartes and demand indefeasable evidence. All else I accept as belief. I also believe that some beliefs are stronger than others. where I find our senses fail us and they are not reliable enough for indefeasible evidence, I do think the senses strengthen beliefs. a belief that shows empirical proof is stronger than a belief that shows no proof at all. but either way, I can not know then with absolute certainty.
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I think most things that are truly important defy evidence or proof.
Who really cares about the distance between the sun and the earth? Who really cares how many meters long a man can grow?
What matters is that there is a sun, there is an earth, and that there is a man. What matters is that I got into a fight and broke my nose and it made me feel masculine; what matters is that I met a girl and I fell in love; what matters is that in the summer of 1996 I got a handjob in a bathroom and it made me feel so good I came or that in the summer of 2003 I entered the US Army as a Private and it gave me a sense of both honor and fright as I went off to basic combat training.
It does not matter the science behind any of it... Who cares about how my nose was broken? Who cares what the dimensions of the girl I fell in lvoe with were? Who cares the size of the bathroom or the science behind sucking shit at basic combat training?
It does not matter the science, because the science is just a description of facts that help us build pictures and senses of what is happening when we aren't there. I tell you I broke my nose from a punch thrown by a 6'3" man weighting 240 pounds and we get an idea of "owe, that must have hurt," or I say I fell in love with the cutest girl ever, and we say "Ohhh, I see!" or I say the bathroom had a head lamp on instead of a regular light "sexy!" or I say that I went to BCT in summer in the South (sweaty, nasty, no good)....
The only reason the science matters, the only reason the hard, physical proof matters and the only reason that the Earth, the Sun, and your fellow men matter at all to you is because...
You feel.
You feel something from these things, and without that feeling... It would mean nothing.
Our world is based on a feeling, not on a science.
And who can prove a feeling?
I can only communicate through shallow words what I felt when I was kissing the woman I loved, and biologically you can tell me about the sensitivies of the nerves in our mouths and our tongues and the proximity between us, and a psychological need to feel another person close to you, and you can explain it a million ways...
But none of that mattered, because when this girl kissed me the feeling was indescribable through word or science.
If another man kissed her, he would not feel the same thing, and it would not matter, and it would never matter to me what another man felt, and he could never tell me exactly what he felt if he really felt something...
But what matters, and what will only matter, is that I felt.