Well I can’t agree with that statement because it is too broad. Cold hard facts do exist, its just that they are hidden behind miles and miles of opinions.
Originally posted by mdipi.com *
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** Absolutly nothing in life is fact, only opinion. If you were to line 10 people up and have them witness something, then question them on it, you would get totaly different responses from everybody, but they will all be along the same lines. This is because everone has their own background that they come from, everyone is raised differently therefore everybody sees things differently, so you really cant trust the facts because they are really just opinions.*
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lol I dont believe that. No offense but you cant say facts dont exist. If they didnt some idiot wouldnt have coined the term. You can get into this whole philosophy about things but often you find yourself rooted on the very definition of human language/understanding. There are opinions - these are bits of information which can be ‘technically correct’ though different among sources and then there are facts where there is one ‘technical correct’ definition or truth which can then be supported by other facts either true or false. 10 witnesses can spew out all the facts they want - doesnt mean any of them are true. Then again it doesnt mean they’re false. Their backgrounds can be influencial in how they interpret the truth or fact, but it doesnt justify it as being an opinion either.
You can also have differing point of views or different languages all explaining the same occurance. Because they are said or presented differently doesnt make them opinions or any further from what could justly be a truthful fact.
preferences are opinions
recollections are facts (usually false ;))
i am not talking about PROVEN facts, i am talking about things in history, and talking to ppl, like historical interviews…
then thats just false (or ‘unproven’ for that matter) facts :-\
*Originally posted by Jubba *
**Also Dipi: not to steal your thunder but you will find out eventually that not everything your teachers tell you is true. Many teachers are not exactly qualified for their jobs and try more to impose their opinions on their students rather than facts. Also, things you are taught when you are younger will contradict things that you are taught later in life. When you are younger schools give you the simple basics of certain subjects and when you get older you will be taught something that will contradict what you previously knew. To live is to learn.
I still have to re-learn many of the things that I was ‘taught’ in high school… **
Ya know… even in my high school history books they teach that Christopher Columbus was in fact the first person to discover what we now know as North America. When he didn’t!!! Never made sense to me.
i was taught that in 4th grade…i think my history teacher is the only person i know of (in terms of teachers) that would challenge this (cause its false), he is always challenging things in history and having us do it too…he is neat cause he gets SO into it and just loves it so much…
