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Self-Refuting Statements Part 2

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Link http://www.roarnomore.com/2010/11/jujutsu-apologetics.html Other cool sites http://guitarharrisy.blogspot.com/ http://worshipguitarriffs.blogspot.com/ http://therisingseed.blogspot.com/ Statement: "All things are relative." Answer: "If all things are relative then so is your statement. In which case I have no reason to believe it." Statement: "All opinions are equally valid." Answer: "My opinion is that not all opinions are equally valid. Is my opinion valid. If it is, then the statement is false. If it's not, then the statement is still false." Statement: "Your truth is different than mine." Answer: "My truth is that your truth is wrong. Is my truth wrong?" (Usually with this type of objection making it real is important. Give an analogy such as, "If you jumped off a building and believed gravity wouldn't pull you toward the earth would you not hit the ground?") Statement: "Words can mean anything you want them to." Answer: "I want your words to mean, 'Words can mean nothing you want them to.' Is that what they mean?" Statement: "No truth is unchanging." Answer: "So the statement you just made is changing and may not be true tomorrow." Statement: "I only believe in science." Answer: "What experiment did you use to arrive at this statement?" Statement: "Apart from mathematical equations we can know nothing absolutely" Answer: "Where's your equation proving that statement to be true?" Statement: "All is one." Answer: "Who's making the statement, you or me?" (Eastern religions have no way to account for person-hood or differentiate between entities) Emotionalism (Usually tied in with Relativism) Statement: "I feel I'm right." Answer: "I feel I'm right. Does that make it right?" Statement: "What works for you doesn't work for me." Answer: "What works for me is doing morally reprehensible things to you. Does that work for you?" Statement: "There are no laws of logic" Answer: "Martians store ponies 3 dollars cackle feathers" (i.e. answer absurdity with absurdity) or "Did you use logic to ...