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I don't maintain my own forum; I just blog around.  Display name: Clarifier.  That's my icon on the left.  Join me in a blog group only if you agree with the following premises:

  1.  Objective truth and objective reality exist.
  2.  Some objective truth is knowable.
  3.  Some truth can be expressed in language.
  4.  Some declarative statements are true.

  5.  Logic is reliable for determining the consistency of any two declarative statements.

If you don't agree with 1 - 5, you're an epistemological non-entity.

  6.  A proposition is uncertain until it is proven true.

  7.  A proposition is probable if it has a greater than 50% chance of being true.

  8.  A proposition is possible until it is proven false.

If you don't agree with 6 - 8, you don't understand certainty, probability, & possibility.

  9.  No category is equal to a proper subset or superset of itself.

10.  The opposite of love is hate, not indifference.

If you don't agree with 9 & 10, you don't understand categorical relationships.

11.  If a statement is literally incorrect, it is not made correct by the intent of its author.

12.  What a person means by a statement may be perfectly true, even if the statement is literally false.

If you don't agree with 11 & 12, you don't understand the difference between literal and intended meaning.

13.  A philosophical question is not worth asking if:
a.  it can't be anwered.
b.  you wouldn't recognize a correct answer if you heard it.

If you don't agree with 13, you may be a free thinker, but you're not a truth seeker.

14.  If I ask you, "Does A = B or not-B," and you say, "A = C," you haven't answered the question.

If you don't agree with 14, you're an evader of legitimate questions.

15.  Truth seekers always clarify.  Ego defenders clariy when they're right and complicate when they're wrong.

16.  Truth seekers pursue conclusions.  Truth avoiders pursue tangents.

If you don't agree with 15 & 16, you just like to argue for the fun of it.

17.  No book is a standard for determining truth.

If you don't agree with 17, you may seek truth within dogmatic boundaries, but your basic premises are uncorrectable.

18.  People are born as truth seekers.  They start dropping out when they see what it's going to cost them.

19.  Truth seekers don't stay in stuff.  They go through stuff.

If you don't agree with 18 & 19, Welcome newby!

20. A truth seeker is always on the edge of nihilism.  All that keeps him from falling over that edge is an assumed connection with an assumed personal Creator who is assumed to be good.

If you don't agree with 20, you're either not a truth seeker, or already a nihilist.

21.  Truth seeking means never having to say you're sorry.

If you don't agree with 21, you may be right, but you can't take a joke.

Eventually I may archive good discussions HERE, but it's not operational yet.