"Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important."

[Nem]

RolStoppable said:

Nem said:

When we learn about them, we go through the proposition. Do i have enough reason to believe this is real? Your mum says she has a tea pot in the kitchen. You don't know what it is. "What is this madness you think? Never heard of something like that existing!" Alas, you go in the kitchen and irrefuteable evidence. Your mum has a tea pot. This thing that until now didn't exist in your world, now does.

Everything in reality goes through this. This is how our knowledge of reality is built.

So, yes, whatever we don't know, we assume doesn't exist. Like i said before, if we didn't we would go mental at the possibility of anything and everything popping up outta nowhere at any time. It would be chaos.

This is equally flawed. We are aware that we don't know everything, that's why we don't assume that the unknown cannot exist. If we assumed that only the known exists, then any new thing could potentially drive us nuts.

For example, there are people who assume that no such thing as Nintendo success exists. That's why they go completely bonkers when Nintendo is successful, because they can't comprehend it at all.

It is not flawed. It is how we find out what is real and what is not. Yes, we don't know everything, but it is the method we used towards learning what is real and what isn't. We can't assume things we don't know are real, therefore we assume they aren't until we can prove they are.

Nintendo isn't an object or entity in physical terms. The example doesn't apply either, unless you mean a Nintendo console. That exists, it's provable. Nintendo company of workers is real, it's provable.