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  1. Kansas Stormcursed
    Cep follows, closing the door to a crack.
  2. Kansas Stormcursed
    What do I have to do to be able to feel? Like I just numb all my emotions most of the time to get away from them because anytime I show my emotions I get yelled at or figuratively burned, so I just lock them all up and slap on the mask. Like why can't I just be able to feel how I feel, without being told that I'm wrong?
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    I wouldn't necessarily say that math governs the universe; rather, we use math to relate observations we have already accepted to other observations, and to try to explain what we see. It's a tool that helps us refine our observations and is sometimes—but not all the time—helpful in making predictions.
  4. Kansas Stormcursed
    Cep looks around. "There," he says, pointing at a small pantry near the door. "We could maybe hide in there, so long as they don't check it."
  5. Kansas Stormcursed
    Cep immediately grabs Taeidin's arm. "Do ah hide us?"
  6. Kansas Stormcursed
    "Ah reckon we oughta figure out what they're usin' this for first."
  7. Kansas Stormcursed
    GAY
  8. Kansas Stormcursed
    First: thanks for correcting me! I see how I was reading that wrong. There's some fair points here but I'll respond to this tomorrow because my logic is starting to not logic tonight.
  9. Kansas Stormcursed
    The uchi deshi was just the student who lived at the dojo. It's a little more complicated than that, it was a whole tradition, but basically they'd just clean everything, since that's pretty much all they had to do back then, and use the same attention to detail to improve their techniques.
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    Oh yeah...yeah that's basically my belief And that's fair in terms of definition,but math is a concept that, although it can help provide explanations for external phenomena and observations, it doesn't really affect any of them—at least, I would say. (This is a fair argument, and I actually really appreciate that some it comes from a viewpoint of belief rather than full universal truth) To poke at one of the holes I see with an exception: what about at a quantum level, where things aren't necessarily the result of some other action and several states exist at once?
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    Math might be universal, but it's more a concept, as opposed to an actual thing (I realize thing is vague, but that's deliberate so it can cover all things that aren't simple concepts with no effect). And what on Earth does that mean?
  12. Kansas Stormcursed
    Yes. You can become the uchi deshi
  13. Kansas Stormcursed
    I'd bring you down here but uh....outside of my dojo it's not great down here
  14. Kansas Stormcursed
    That's primarily the point I'm arguing: that,, even though there may be a universal truth out there, we have no real way of identifying it, and it doesn't practically exist as far as we can interact with it or determine it.
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    To bring in another point here, our science is based on compilation of observations; we hold a lot of things true primarily because we have a massive catalogue of instances that uphold these theories, without any exceptions. That said, we cannot conclusively determine that these laws ALWAYS hold. Even the fundamental axioms on which the rest of science is based are just statements that we have accepted as true because we have seen no contradiction to them ever. As far as concerns gravity, I think the main problem would be proving that this force is universal or always holds, for the same reasons above: we cannot conclusively prove that gravity ALWAYS acts as it does, because it is so fundamental a law to our science that it just is. Mostly, I accept science as extremely likely instance bordering on fact—that is, in any given instance, science probably holds. So I operate on the assumption that it holds, but at the same time I don't discount the possibility that someday, or somewhere, those laws will fail, meaning I don't necessarily trust them to becompletely universal.
  16. Kansas Stormcursed
    *HUGS* I'm so sorry
  17. Kansas Stormcursed
    Yeah, that's basically what I'm saying. I don't deny that there may be an objective truth, but proving there is one is rather like trying to prove the existence of God; there is no concrete evidence, and it mostly depends on how one interprets the evidence. About the light: this might be an example of an objective truth, except that it isn't, in fact, always true. It breaks down in some circumstances, like at the edges of black holes. Yeah my argument isn't really that there isn't an objective truth precisely, more that such an objective truth is impossible to find if it does exist because we have no way of determining which interpretation of events, if any, is right.
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    Idk if that's the best title I was just putting something. Ok I'm'a ping everyone who was part of this discussion, continue to take part if you wish. Or not. @MirkerLurker @TwinStorm @Hoid Slayer @Dragonheir @MirkerLurker to answer your question about whether I think all truth is subjective: the short answer is yes. To expand on that, you know the saying, there's three sides to every story—yours, mine, and the truth? I think of it more as each side is either true as they see it or fabricated based on the truth as they see it—that is, either their side is true to them, or it's deliberately modified based on the truth they see. That said, in nearly any event, people will recount things differently, with details that don't match up. Even accounting for some people deliberately changing things, it happens often enough that for some there's just a difference in how they perceived something happening. While it might be different from what a third person might say happened, it is still what is true to them, and, without a way to objectively determine truth, for all practical purposes the truth is different for each person. In the same way, turning to physics, light always travels at the same speed. Each person will see a ray of light traveling at the same speed, even if they're moving relative to each other. This means that everything else they see will be different, despite being the same conceptually. However, this also implies that there is a single objective truth that is the same, by this analogy. So the long answer is that, while there may be objective truth, I don't think it's practically real, because it has no real effect or appearance in the world. It's a lot like the ideal forms of (Plato, I think it was?), where each thing in the world is just a shadow of an ideal form; while theoretically such an ideal form could exist, it has no practical bearing on the world. I really hope that logic made some sense, it's almost midnight here so my brain is running a little slow.
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    Ooh. It's been awhile since I've seen all of them, and I'm definitely due a rewatch to refresh my memory, but the first is still my favorite. That said, my favorite moment is probably the train car scene falling off the cliff from the latest one—that, or him riding the bike off the cliff.
  20. Kansas Stormcursed
    *more hugs* Please please try to make your mom take you to a doctor before she just increases your antidepressants
  21. Kansas Stormcursed
    "No...ah don' know if ah ever knew the name."
  22. Kansas Stormcursed
    Cep pauses. "Ah—" he shakes his head. "Ah can. Ah don' know how, but ah can. Ah can't remember anythin' else though. 'Cept...ah don' think that was the only other world ah've been on...ah guess that's a start."
  23. Kansas Stormcursed
    "It was on a different world...one where the state of this one would have seemed somewhat primitive. There was a cave on this world, and in the cave there was a pool a lot like this 'un. Accordin' ta the people there, it was the remnants of an old, powerful being. That might have just been legend though; whatever it was, it sure was old. An' powerful."
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    Cep walks up carefully and leans over the pool. "Odd." He reaches down and sticks a hand slowly into the water. He pulls it out to achieve the same effect. "It feels like-" He breaks off for a second. "Ah've seen summat like this once before...it had the same effect. That was somewhere far from here, though. It couldn't have gotten here."
  25. Kansas Stormcursed
    "Should yeh be goin' near that? It don't look normal..."
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