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I've noticed that many of us talk of objective and subjective truths. I lately have faced a lot of paralyzing anxiety concerning my ability to communicate with the written word. The two contributing factors to this belief are rather related to each other -- it is clear that one of them is the...

Kierkegaard has an interesting view on this. He states that man is in a relation to a particular object, he can view the "truth-hood" of this particular object through an objective or subjective lens. In the case of the former, the object's truth in-and-of-itself is examined. This would be...

Zero 7, Public Enemy, and Radiohead within the same list? ... I smell a new playlist! :D

Oh wow, ten bands... This will require some thought. Is anyone else thinking High Fidelity? Chances are, if I listed them, I love their whole discography. These also are in no particular order. 1. Wilco 2. Radiohead 3. The Decemberists 4. DeVotchKa 5. Bob Dylan (He had a band! In fact, it was...

I'm right there with you. I have close friends that get so frustrated, even downright angry with me because of the fact I can't really accept things at surface value. One of my friends described it as me, "... drowning everything in meaning." It hurts, and it really makes me feel isolated but...

While I do appreciate (and even agree) with a lot of what they say, I definitely see them as being subject to the same sensationalism as the people whose toes they step on.

I would take an imaginative flight of fancy over knowing absolute truth -any- day. I might be going out on too much of a limb, here but I cannot help but feel like this might have a lot of tie-ins to existentialism through the lens of the Myth of Sisyphus. "The struggle towards the heights...

Oh! Oh no, I really wasn't trying to be a drain at all! I'm sorry! And well. In regards to your question about the legal system, I don't know if evidence is the end-all say-all. I think that the outside world around us, while it is absorbed through our senses, it also needs to be translated in...

Pish posh. No conversation is over anyone's head unless they allow it to be! I guess where you and I differ concerns the relationship between justification and belief. I think that -most- people figure their beliefs completely justified (regardless of this being true or not). I do not think...

Innnteresting! I wonder which tends to be more causal.

No problem! I like handing rep where rep is clearly due, so no worries. Namaste!

Does anyone think that people might justify negative emotions experienced from doubt by hold a kind of... almost holier than thou attitude? Like saying.. "Yeah, I am depressed and I have drug problems. But hot damn, I doubt myself often so it is okay!"

Om nom nom! :D

I'm not saying that I agree with them, but I do see a lot of people use those criterion concerning spaghetti monsters. How does it not fit into the model? What am I missing?

So what determines the validity of evidence? The majority might find their truth evident, however much your evidence proves otherwise.