what do you know for certain?

Answer 1

That I love my husband and children and always will--regardless of what they do or don't do in life.

That God is real and loves us all--even in times when you can't see or feel that love.

That people will always disappoint you at some point--and it's up to you to decide if they will remain in your life or not.

That it takes a lot more energy to hold a grudge and hate than to forgive and love.

That I will die someday--and that each person in my life will know that I loved them dearly.

(P.S. This is one of the best questions I have ever answered. Good job!!!)

Answer 2

That I know nothing for certain. Paradox, huh?

Ask yourself: what is certainty? - what would it feel like? - how would you recognize it if you tripped over it?

The only reasonable definition of certainty is that it is wilful belief (a.k.a. faith).

Death is not certain. The belief that death is certain is based on inductive argument (basically, argument that what has happened in the past will continue to happen in the future), and induction is notoriously uncertain. Death might be defeated by science, but then it would be immortality that was uncertain, for the same reason death is now uncertain.

Scientific laws are all uncertain - they are all inductive. But at least there is evidence for them, unlike religious laws, which are based on hearsay and wilful belief.

Death could be defeated in the same sense that the smallpox virus has been defeated. As far as we know the smallpox virus is extinct (except, it is said, for a few lab samples here and there). But the virus could, for reasons we might or might not know, make a comeback.

So, if death was to be defeated (in this sense) its defeat would, of course, be uncertain, just as death is uncertain. And so, the defeat of death would make immortality then uncertain also. Immortality is not uncertain at present. It is not uncertain because the evidence of its existence is pathetically weak compared with the evidence for the existence of death. A thing can be neither uncertain nor certain if it does not exist.

Saying a thing is not certain is also to say it is uncertain. However, saying a thing is *not uncertain* is *not* to say it is certain.

Answer 3

2 points for this is certain

Answer 4

Only thing I know for certain as on this moment is that I am alive now.

Answer 5

That nothing is for certain

Answer 6

That I have read this question and at the moment am answering it... Beyond that, I'm not 'certain' of anything.

Answer 7

I know for certain that reality as I perceive it,
is a pretty strange place.

Answer 8

That one day, I will die.
And that every day until then, I will strive to make this place better. More full of joy than before I came. I know for certain that all of us are here for a reason, and to each individual, that reason will show itself... I know my reason for living. To teach, to dance, to laugh, to experience heart-rending pain; all to make my Soul stronger, and more enlightened.
Blessed Be.

Answer 9

brucebirdfield: How could death be "defeated" by science, if, as you say, all scientific laws are uncertain? I assume by "defeated", you mean to the extent that death would become less probabilistically likely than it is now, due to some probabilistic discovery in science.

And even if that were to happen, since death can't be defeated by science with certainty, it doesn't follow that the uncertainty of immortality would replace the uncertainty of death - the uncertainty of both would coexist. Since death is uncertain, it should follow that immortality is also uncertain, even now, prior to any probabilistic scientific discovery that probabilistically "defeats" death.

Answer 10

I know for certain..that life isn't easy.