I think our language makes it hard to think about something like 'absolute
truth,'
Perhaps we have to move beyond the limiting belief of a human like entity
that dispenses justice, etc.,
I hate to butt into a private (?) discussion, but it must be
said, Jhon Emery is a thinking dude.
However, I must disagree, on point, not principle. Jhon, consider the word universe. Are you up on your latin at all?
Loosley translated, I think universe means, like one word.
Now is that absolute or what?
No, I don't think the language is to blame. In fact, in my opinion, it's difficult to think about anything in our current stifling social environment. How much less the largest possible
questions?
I submit to you that it is human pschycology which makes it
difficult not to think of absolutes. Face it, one day, we're all gonna die. This is a basic of human existance, and kind of provides an overwhelming disbelief of anything that doesn't come to an end, or, an absolute.
Everything we really know has an end somewhere, life, sex, dinner, so that the notion is really geared into us.
Is there an absolute? Might as well be. It can be proved that .999 repeating endlessly is actually one, and so it is with our existance. If there isn't a real absolute, there certainly are functional ones.
The second quote I included just to applaude this thinking dudes good sense. Cudos.
