When you find NO solution to a PROBLEM....
It’s probably not a problem to be SOLVED.
But a TRUTH to be ACCEPTED.
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I tend to see problems similarly to @EyesThatSmile. Undiscovered solutions vice unsolvable problems. Answers are out there, awaiting our discovery.
I am inspired by the story of George Bernard Dantzig who, as a frequently-tardy Berkeley grad student in mathematics, showed up 20 mintues late for his math class, copied two problems from the chalkboard that he assumed were homework assignments, went home and eventually solved them, only to later be told by the instructor that he had put them on the chalkboard at the beginning of class as examples of 'unsolvable problems.' This feat launched his career, but likely wouldn't have happened had he not been late to class and therefore open to his supposed homework assignment being solvable.
p-nullifidian
Level 8
Oct 27, 2020
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True, true and true!!! This is exactly the problem of whether or not heaven exists.
There is no solution to the problem, therefore there must not be a problem. Therefore, the fact is to be accepted that heaven does not exist. This is the basis of my non-belief, the supernatural realm of heaven does not exist, except as a human delusion. A truth to be accepted. GROG
GROG
Level 6
Oct 27, 2020
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I disagree. Should Edison have stopped at 150 tries? Would that have meant that it is true, we can’t make light from electricity? Just because one person can’t find the answer to a problem, does not mean an answer isn’t out there, somewhere.
EyesThatSmile
Level 8
Oct 27, 2020
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Er....
20 years before Edison, Joseph Swan had invented a light bulb.
Ten years before Edison's bulb, Cragside became the first house in the world to be lit by hydro-generated electricity.
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It is a fascinating estate to explore, in Northumbria, England. I spent an entire day there and will have to return to see the stuff that I missed.
Incidentally, the incandescent light bulb that we still (sometimes) use today is not the Edison bulb. It is the far more reliable, yet cheaper, one invented by George Westinghouse.
Such is the vagary of popular history.
@Petter
SO true
Baird invented the Television before Farnsworth
Richard Pearse made the first aeroplane flight before The Wright Brothers
Otto Titsling invented the bra before Philippe de Brazier
Elisha Grey invented the Telephone before Bell
The Lumiere Brothers invented cinema before Edison
(PS one of these is a lie)
@LenHazell53 Philippe de Brazier invented the barbecue!
There's a lot of problems that just require more information or resources.
Humans yearned to fly since they first saw birds.
Many just settled for accepting the "fact" that humans can't fly.
Willow_Wisp
Level 8
Oct 27, 2020
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There is no solution to this post.. But i will not accept that...
Oh wait.. 2+2=4 ☺
Cutiebeauty
Level 9
Oct 27, 2020
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So.... How do we solve the problem of religion?
Certainly not by accepting it as the truth.
They, of course, have the same problem with reason. 
Petter
Level 9
Oct 27, 2020
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@Green_Soldier71 I do recall that heretics (non-believers) used to be burned alive. Perhaps the time has come to reverse the criteria! 
@Petter waaaay to much global warming from That!
@AnneWimsey Love your reply!
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