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Haha you're just proving my point even more that there's no such thing as an absolute truth. Here have a blue peter badge.
Okay. Prove it.
Just because you believe something doesn't make it the "truth". It's an opinion at best.
But something may be true and unproovable. Either God exists or he doesn't - the fact that until you pop you clogs you can't proove it either way doesn't change the truth.
Not really the point though.
There's a difference between:
It's true that God either exists or he doesn't
and
It's true that God exists/doesn't exist individually.
I would say the only absolute truth is what you see, hear, touch, taste, smell and think. Anything else, such as ways of measuring it, and interpreting it for other people is man-made, and as a result, fallible, and no longer 'truth'. Even if you claimed we were in some sort of Matrix-style fake world, it would still be truth, because it would still be what you experience.
None of the above can be proven true.
The only thing we can say for certainty is that "There are thoughts" - we do not know who, or indeed what, is having them.
I know I am being picky, but our senses, indeed, our very conciousness is faliable. We know for sure that 100% what you see IS NOT what is in the world - we our limited to the fact that the human eye is flawed. People are colour blind - and cats have better sight than us. Hearing - dogs hear more than us, what we hear is NOT what is actually out there to hear. We miss alot of detail.
The truth - well, there is very little we can know to be true. We just make reasonable judgement on what we know - and we get by. It could be anything, this life - we might find out what it is when we die, we might not, that might just be the end. Nothing after. Ho hum.
No, these are things are proven. I think it actually took 100 pages of calculations to prove unequivocally that 1+1=2.
Prove that He doesn't.
Ultimately this is cyclical, until either of us is in the position of aquiring all knowledge and proving it (in which case we'd be in the position of the being the absolute and therefore the absolute does exist) you're not going to know until you're dead.
More to the point, you're all post modernists, so the burden of proof is not on me, it's ok for me have one truth, because that's not true for you. Even if it actually was and you didn't know it.
But as forementioned, because you don't know or understand something doesn't mean you are not bound by it. Just because some bloke in his shed doesn't understand or know about the second law of thermodynamics doesn't mean he's going to make his perpetual motion machine, he'll fail just the same.
Anyway, people interested in this topic should read Maturana or other constructivists. Epistemology has become ever more interesting since the irruption of constructivism. Here's a link to Maturana's thinking if anyone's interested http://www.oikos.org/vinclife.htm#2