Was tryin yesterday to explain to a guy about what I believe. Told him I believe there are no absolute truths, EXCEPT for this knowledge of there not being any other absolute truths. Knowing that there are no other absloute truths is, in itself, an absolute truth, the only one.
And I realized that he couldn't really hear what I was saying. In other words he didn't really consider the words I was using, but instead thought they sounded like some other words he had heard before, and figured it must be an idea he had heard before.
No amount of persuasion or whatever could get him to hear what the idea was. Even though it is only one brief sentence, he couldn't, at that time, hear it!
And so I thought, "This is what it is like on totse. You tell these guys this idea, and no one speaks to it, or answers. They just start talking about something else. They don't even argue against what you said, but against what they THOUGHT you said."
So, at any one time, are there only certain people that are able to hear this idea? It's only one idea, not the whole Bible or some book. Prior training in philosophy is not required.
Could someone paraphrase back to me what the simple idea is that I am talking about? The one that I stated above?
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