What is truth?

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Abdul Alhazred
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What is truth?

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Pomona College Students Say There’s No Such Thing as Truth, 'Truth' Is a Tool of White Supremacy
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If the truth does not exist—if it is merely a construct—what's the point of attending university? What's the point of accruing knowledge? How is a liberal activist movement ever going to counter President Trump's ceaseless and worrying hostility toward basic facts if it rejects the existence of object reality?

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Pomona college student Steve Shallow says.......

....nothing of interest.
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Those damn kids are on my lawn again.
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
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THESE ARE NOT MY CRAYONS!!

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Lister is Truth.
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Somehow, I doubt that a handful of kids is going to redefine truth.
"It is not I who is mad! It is I who is crazy!" -- Ren Hoek

"what dicking deep shit i produce" -- pillory

Freedom of choice
Is what you got
Freedom from choice
Is what you want

People are shitting themselves to death
Crap so much they fail to take a breath
But even when their kids are starvin'
They thought Trump would throw them Charmin.
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shemp wrote:Somehow, I doubt that a handful of kids is going to redefine truth.
They are getting it from their professors, who in turn are getting it from a bunch of dead white males. Image
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Contrary to his denial, I've come to think that Abdul is actually our board philosopher. :twisted:

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It is a song:

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I win.

--J.D.
Mob of the Mean: Free beanie, cattle-prod and Charley Fan Club!
"Doctor X is just treating you the way he treats everyone--as subhuman crap too dumb to breathe in after you breathe out." – Don
DocX: FTW. – sparks
"Doctor X wins again." – Pyrrho
"Never sorry to make a racist Fucktard cry." – His Humble MagNIfIcence
"It was the criticisms of Doc X, actually, that let me see more clearly how far the hypocrisy had gone." – clarsct
"I'd leave it up to Doctor X who has been a benevolent tyrant so far." – Grammatron
"Indeed you are a river to your people.
Shit. That's going to end up in your sig." – Pyrrho
"Try a twelve step program and accept Doctor X as your High Power." – asthmatic camel
"just like Doc X said." – gnome
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Witness wrote:Contrary to his denial, I've come to think that Abdul is actually our board philosopher. :twisted:
As Pillory is our bard. :D
About that stereo
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Witness wrote:Contrary to his denial, I've come to think that Abdul is actually our board philosopher. :twisted:

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All I gotta say is, none of the black people I have known are Nietzscheans. :coolspecs:
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