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What is the most agreed upon truth that exists?

noseenobelieve 4 Aug 30
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Everyone dies.

Winner!!

@Etre only inductively so.

Yeah, you win! High five to your brain!

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Bob Dylan is overrated.

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Elvis was a shitty actor!

I liked his acting

@Etre My stepfather thought Chuck Norris was a great actor. That didn't make it so.

@Sticks48

Ugh... i was like 5 - 10, seen almost everyone. I am also a musician, bias. I have studied acting, and I have acted. But I honor the fact I grew up watching Elvis movies and very much enjoyed them. But I understand the purity of your statement.

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I think I'll answer to that with a great song from Leonard Cohen.' Everybody knows'.
I think it's the little things are the only thins that are agreed to be truths.

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I think, therefore I am. I don't pretend to speak for the rest of humanity though lol.

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Math.

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We need oxygen to breath

There are medical techniques currently under development to directly inject oxygen into blood, without need for respiration.

We tend to take many things for granted, especially breathing.

@cmadler still need oxygen to breath. Whether not the delivery method is via diaphragm.

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With 2 strikes... swing at a wild pitch and run to first.

Not if you are Prince Fielder

@GuyKeith Okay, he can roll to first base.

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Bacon is the best food ever...

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Getting punched in the face hurts

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The only constant is change

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Jelly goes on top of peanut butter

Marz Level 7 Aug 31, 2018
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Since the question qualifies the existing truth as the most agreed upon, I don't know that death would be the answer, since probably over 80% of the world's population believes in a god. Along with the belief in god usually comes a belief in life beyond death. Probably the same occurs with evolution. The answer may be something as simple as that we are alive, since, I think, most religions would agree with that.

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Things do stuff

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Death is inevitable

lerlo Level 8 Aug 30, 2018

Depends on the fate of the universe. Some organisms don't experience senescence, and it may be possible some day to "cure" it in humans (which would probably be a terrible idea, but that's another argument).

Obviously if the universe ends (heat death, "Big Crunch",etc.) that puts a limit on life. But if the universe doesn't end, I'm not sure why immortality isn't at least theoretically possible.

@cmadler I tjhought the question was "truth that EXISTS" not what might be theoretical

@cmadler have you heard of the cyclic theory of the universe? I tend to lean towards that possibility, as well as Game Theory Simulation.

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The sun rises in the East and sets in the West.
Water is wet.
That's it, there are only two.

There exists documentation of the sun rising and or setting differently in multiple sources from antiquity, which infers a pole shift, which several astronomers attest we are experiencing now. Ie global warming is what they tell you.

I have read that if you have a group of fewer than six water molecules, they do not exhibit "wetness". I'm honestly not sure what that means, but it's out there for the googling.

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People need to breathe air to live.

Liquids that can be breathed have been developed. Due to current limitations they're generally limited to certain medical uses, but as the technology develops, it's not inconceivable that it could be also used in pressurized environments (basically a real version of the special diving suit from The Abyss).

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1+1=2

And it only took a couple hundred pages in Principia Mathematica to prove.

In binary 1+1=10

Depends on the base

1 = 1.

@KenChang Or more philosophically, A is A: the law of identity.

Not in binary it doesn't. It equals 10. I think that's why philosophy professors use 2+2=4 for the 'mathematics is the only truth' lesson.

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Everybody dies.

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The only things in life that are certain are death and taxes. Everything else is up in the air.

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There are no absolute truths.

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You're born and you die

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Taxes

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Death... and taxes too if you aren't rich enough to find ways to avoid them.

Perhaps Decarte's "I think, therefore I am".

not to antagonize, but Decartes' syllogism was, and is, circular. It might be virtuously circular, but round nonetheless. "thinking" presupposes existence, which is his conclusion: u can't think without being.

i swear im not trying to be a smartass, but maybe u can catch somebody with that one.

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Death and taxes.

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