No one has ever known a lick of truth in their entire life.

truth - things that are true. I'm sorry I did not post this before, as I believed it to be common knowledge. By this, I do not mean, as you say "truth to be anything that I, or you believe to be true". No, rather, it means that things are the way they are and there is absolutly no way to say they are not. What does this mean? Here is an example though yes, in the end it is a lie: The grass is green. Well, that's not true. Humans see green grass, dog's see grey grass? Who is right? What we believe to be true is never true. If we stepped out of the physical world and saw hings through the eyes of "what really is", we might see that grass is not green, or grey, but tangerine, or even clear, or invisible totally. We we know to be colour is what our eyes identify by way of light passing through something and our sences registering it. More indepth "knowledge" can be found here: http://www.hhmi.org... Here's the rub though. In ancient times, we saw things the way we did, because we just did. Our eyes saw, and were something within itself. Now today, that is wrong. Would anyone in the past have predicted this, dreamed that what they knew as fact was a lie? No. Same goes for us. As time shows, what we think is true now is a lie because sometime, somewhere, somehow, it will be proven wrong. That in turn will also be wrong, and so on and so forth until our inevitable extinction. Everything down to basic thing's we never even dreamed of think had a reason, like breathing, and wind, and ground, have all been explained then proven false somehow. Every single time. Now to your specific example, which will be explained in order as given. 1) You do not exist. How is this possible? Because I do not know you exist. I do not know that I exist. This could all be a figment, a dream, an inigma. All we have as proof that we exist is our own beleifs. But belief is not fact. There is a truth as to what we really are and how it works, but we are not seeing it or interpreting it right. This is proven because every other explaination on self awarness has been wrong somehow. Your reasoning now is not right, as it will be proven wrong in the future. Until that is found and there is no possible refutation, we can safetly say that you and I are both lies. 2) Time and age are both lies as well. Both where made solely by humans, and is thus wrong. They where made as explainations to forces that work beyond comprehension, and kept because they proved to be the most reasonable reason out there. Your parents where taught this lie, and they (and others) taught you as well this lie. Thus you believe a lie. The Earth does not rotate around the sun making you age. It is neither an accurate measurment. It will at some point be found to be untrue, so you are not 18 years old, and niether am I. 3) We do not have names on this site because there is no site. You are under the impression that there is a site, just as in the past, people were under the impression that ptting coins on the eyes of the dead would bring them to the afterlife. You believe it to be true by what you see, and the accounts of other's and youself. In a more present sence, your "name" is only assorted pixels you have convinced yourself forms "answermate". This argument is also another lie your convinced exists because you see it, and are being effect by it. It is a figment that you think is real, but is not. Again, you lie to yourself. 4) You don't have parents. You may never have been born at all. Again, my reference to existance (existance - to be real beyond a doubt). At some point, you will not exist and no one will be able to prove you did. You will never have been raised by parents as they will never have existed either.Any trace that you did will be lost and thus, you will have never existed. While you may say you do because you think that you do, your own evidence will prove useless as it will no longer matter. We'll all be found to not exist somehow, infact, our species as a whole will not exist, as it does not now. On Jupiter, we do not exist. There is no knowlege that we exist. So then, we do not. 1 billino years on Earth, all forms of us will be gone on this planet, and we will have never existed. You where never raised by parents, you have none, there is no you. 5) Your sences decieve you. again, proven through history (another lie). A while back, you felt what you felt because you did. Then you felt what you did because it was your soul in a mud casing. Now it is nerves. In the future, it will be something else entirly. Perhaps to the point where it is found no one has ever felt anything ever because nothing was there to be felt to start with. How is beyond both me and you. But so was nerves to and acient Egyptian, or a Neandrathal, but here we are today, believeing another "fact". Believe that what you feel is keys for now, because one way or another, your really not. Now, as to how I feel about this debate. I feel it is a lie as it will be proven false. But I also think it is true because it is. Does that make me lose? No. Niether does it make you win. If what I say is true, then you too do not know any truth, and are thus lying, which means that if I'm wrong, and your right, then you are wrong and I am right. Once you believe me to have lost I have won. SInce neither can be proven true, they are thus lies, and that's all we know. If I think it is a lie than that again proves me right. I believe it is a lie because it will be wrong somehow, somewhere, at sometime. But I know it to be fact. Therefore, I believe a lie, proving what I say to be true for now. So, if you think about it, I win. BAISC THESIS FOR WHY EVERYTHING IS A LIE. Tell me what this is: :) There's an extremly high probablity you said it was a smiley face. But it's not. Its a semi colon and an end parenthasis. But its not that, its a compelation of black pixels. But it's not that, its an assortment of 1 and 0. But it's not that, its protons and electrons. But it's not that its something else entirly. It keeps going like this. But at some point, there is an absolute truth, no matter how large or small, as to what :) is. We think we know, but we don't and are proven to be wrong everytime. Until that absolutleness is known (which it probably never will) we are all believing the next most convenient lie that helps to make this universe make sence.