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Re: Answer a question with a question!

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How can we be sure we know anything?
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That's why we ask questions, isn't it?
To achieve balance, first you must grow.
To grow, first you must learn.
To learn, first you must listen.
To listen, first you must shut the hell up.
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If we didn't know anything, could we prove that we weren't brains in a vat?
Maxleod wrote:Not strike, he's the only one with a functioning brain.
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What is the Matrix?
To achieve balance, first you must grow.
To grow, first you must learn.
To learn, first you must listen.
To listen, first you must shut the hell up.
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Is that what that phrase is referencing?
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Can't you relate The Matrix to radical skepticism?
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Wouldn't that depend on what you define "radical skepticism" as?
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Isn't radical skepticism the belief that no one can prove that anything is certain?
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And isn't that what The Matrix is all about?
To achieve balance, first you must grow.
To grow, first you must learn.
To learn, first you must listen.
To listen, first you must shut the hell up.
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Isn't that why i said you could relate them?
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Re: Answer a question with a question!

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How was I supposed to know that?
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Don't you know everything?
Baby, When You Look This Good, You Don't Have To KNOW Anything.

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Does anyone know everything?
To achieve balance, first you must grow.
To grow, first you must learn.
To learn, first you must listen.
To listen, first you must shut the hell up.
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Re: Answer a question with a question!

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Can I please be omniscient?!?!?!
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Who can grant that kind of request?
To achieve balance, first you must grow.
To grow, first you must learn.
To learn, first you must listen.
To listen, first you must shut the hell up.
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Re: Answer a question with a question!

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Couldn't someone who is omnipotent?
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Sure, but why would he want to?
To achieve balance, first you must grow.
To grow, first you must learn.
To learn, first you must listen.
To listen, first you must shut the hell up.
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Re: Answer a question with a question!

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Wouldn't he want someone who is all-knowing to help him be all-powerful more effectively?
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But if he's already all powerful is there any reason he would need someone all knowing?
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Wouldn't all powerful and all knowing kind of go together anyways?
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Perhaps like the union of the Two Towers?
To achieve balance, first you must grow.
To grow, first you must learn.
To learn, first you must listen.
To listen, first you must shut the hell up.
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Did the two towers unite?
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Re: Answer a question with a question!

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Wouldn't that be hard considering one was in Fangorn and one was in Mordor?
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Is Isengard in Fangorn?
To achieve balance, first you must grow.
To grow, first you must learn.
To learn, first you must listen.
To listen, first you must shut the hell up.
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Re: Answer a question with a question!

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Do you guys have any idea what you are talking about?
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