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The Huskar Social Union
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Left-wing Utopia

Postby The Huskar Social Union » Sun Nov 01, 2015 4:49 am

Summer is over, can we stop with the nonsensical pseudo intellectual bullshit already? As this is one of the daftest things ive read in months.
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Postby Carbon based lifeforms » Sun Nov 01, 2015 4:50 am

A pseudo-interesting, pseudo-intellectual question with no practical relevance? On NSG? Colour me surprised.

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Postby -Principality of Zeon- » Sun Nov 01, 2015 4:53 am

We're entering IM levels of nonsense here folks.
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Postby Leekun » Sun Nov 01, 2015 5:21 am

Ah yes, the old fallacy that something has to be absolutely 100% certain for it to be true, or a fact. And if it can't be proven beyond ANY doubt, it has to be false. What the OP does in essence it to try to use God-like standards for human knowledge. Well, no one here is a God or even a demigod (in my opinion LOL!!!)so no one here can meet the OP's supernatural standards for truth/facts, and the OP will continue to counter every post with a variation of "Yeah, well, that's just like, your opinion, man" :roll:

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Postby The Greater Ohio Valley » Sun Nov 01, 2015 6:43 am

I'm not sure what's going on here? OP seems to be in some sort of logic loop.
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Postby BK117B2 » Sun Nov 01, 2015 7:11 am

Facts are not opinions. Opinions only exist if someone holds them. Facts remain regardless of knowledge or agreement

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Postby Esheaun Stroakuss » Sun Nov 01, 2015 8:54 am

Opinions tend to revolve around the value and quality of things, or the successes or failures of particular things.
Facts are irrefutable and happen(ed) regardless of how one feels.

For example, you might think that a certain TV program is bullshit. That is an opinion. Evolution happens/ed and has been proven. It is a fact. It happens no matter what anyone thinks. Some of them can overlap. You might think that the success or a failure of a historical event, an opinion, can be determined by concrete, irrefutable evidence, i.e. statistics. However, even objective evidence can be manipulated to conform to history or a study.
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Postby Sanctissima » Sun Nov 01, 2015 9:17 am

2+2=4

That is a fact.

One could have the opinion that 2+2=5.

One would also be wrong.

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Postby The Serbian Empire » Sun Nov 01, 2015 9:42 am

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Postby Cetacea » Sun Nov 01, 2015 9:46 am

in my opinion this thread was fact from the start

the truth is out there

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Postby United Dependencies » Sun Nov 01, 2015 9:51 am

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Postby Frisbeeteria » Sun Nov 01, 2015 10:01 am

The Huskar Social Union wrote:Summer is over, can we stop with the nonsensical pseudo intellectual bullshit already?

Also pretty much trolling so that the OP could repeatedly say
Contamenesia wrote:Is that a fact? or is this simply your opinion?

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