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I do not understand what you are saying.
You say that like it's a bad thing ... I never let not understanding what I'm saying stop ME ..... ;)

Okay, I think this is very confused. PART of the confusion is about what you mean by "absolute". In my systematic theology reading that usually has to do with something which, so to speak, stands on its own. And your statement about you and oxygen seems to me to be unverifiable and based on a premise that one human body is very like another and so on. That's not absolute and not knowable. Even if you DID die the first time we deprived you of oxygen we wouldn't know if maybe the phase of the moon or something was invovled and if only we'd deprieved you of oxygen 10 mintues later, the outcome might ahve been entirely different.

Then you say something like,"That doesn't make sense!" And I say,"Where is it written that it's supposed to make sense? What does 'make sense' mean anyway?"

Then there's the question of truth. What is THAT? What do YOU mean by "truth"? What do you mean when you say question unverifiable propositions but then suggest that maybe it's true that you don't believe this or that?"

I can say, and I believe, that IHS XT is The Way, the Truth, and the Life", but don't we have to spend some time figuring out what that could mean?

And I was suggesting that the kinship of the English word "truth" with the now archaic word "troth" suggested that truth is somehow related to commitment, to fidelity, to keeping one's word, things of that kind. And then I made a glancing suggestion that Pascal's wager might tie into our relationship with truth. I mean, the smart money is betting that if we take away your oxygen, you'll croak. So is truth a matter of where the smart money is betting?

And my overriding purpose in this blether is to honor the integrity of your quest and to challenge you to turn around and question closely and persistently concepts like "truth" and "absolute". My hunch is that you will enjoy the ride and end up in a place quite different from what you expected.

After all, from my point of view, the Truth is hunting for you and He means to catch you.

NO time to check spelling gotta go to the airport.