WAY OT.. Terminal words.

[Oldbrock]

English proff stated that there was absolutely no language on earth where two positive terms result in a negative statement whereupon a wag in the back of the class replied with " Yeah, Right." Peter

[madwilliamflint]

uhm... no.

"We may or may not be able to know as humans what the absolutes are (and if we do know, not be able to confirm.)"

is entirely orthogonal to whether or not such absolutes exist.

That's "all things that are yellow are bananas" logic.

Besides, a dimension that measures 0.053" in length is absolutely longer than 0.05 and absolutely shorter than 0.055.

Now, if you're going to say there's no such thing as "perfect exactitude" (for lack of a reasonable phrase, my brain being pre-caffeine at the moment), you have more of a point.

But "no absolutes"? Absolutely not.

[Boucher]

prolly????

[dp]

There are some absolutes. My last boss before I went self employed was the dumbest, most arrogant, most narcissistic fellow in the universe.

Are you saying that is not the case now that you are self-employed?

[alanganes]

Well, there is "absolute zero"

[flylo]

I see it differently. There are no gray area's, it's all black & white. No matter what people say it doesn't change the Truth & the Truth is Defininte & not what each person thinks it is. There is the biggest,longest,highest,etc at this moment. Things may change but I get tired of all the "gray area" the world is going to. Right, Wrong & Truth are DefinIte & it's a thin black line between them, not the mile wide gray area the world is accepting as truth.
I can't see air & can chose or not to believe in it but it doesn't change the fact that it's still there.

[John Stevenson]

There are some absolutes. My last boss before I went self employed was the dumbest, most arrogant, most narcissistic fellow in the universe.

That's funny, so was mine after I went self employed

[gnm109]

Are you saying that is not the case now that you are self-employed?

I'll get back to you on this after some further thought.

[oldtiffie]

What if your boss terminates you?

What if you medico tells you that you have a terminal illnees - and when you asked "Are you certain?" to which he replied "Certainly".

[John Stevenson]

I was reminded of this thread at the weekend.
I went in to upgrade my phone and the very professional young lady looked the records up and said

"Your contract was for a Nokia X6 but you changed it to a Samsung? "

"Yes I found the X6 to be the most annoying phone I had owned"

"What did you do with the X6 ?"

"I gave it my son who's the most annoying person I know"