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  • Can't get no colder 'n absolute zero (-273ish Celsius). I'd say that the nature of the universe is absolute, kind of by definition.
  • Agree, every action causes something else.
  • of course not. nature is full of absolutes. hot is hot and cold is cold, up is up and down is down, north south east and west never change, etc. as far as people's opinions go, there are absolutes there as well, whether we choose to recognize and accept them, they still exist.
  • agree even absolute freezing is only relative to the instrument that measures it
  • was it winston churchill who said "never say never"? hot chocolate is hot but only until you've tasted hot chocolate heated by our sun. kelvin's absolute zero was only designed on earth. what about 10 gallaxies over? which kind of north are you suggesting - polar north or magnetic north? if the earth shifts 90 degrees in 2012, will we still call the old north pole north, or will we call china north? will we rename north carolina east carolina? we comfort ourselves with artificial absolutes but everything, i'd argue, is relative.
  • No one thing exists without it's opposite and so is relative in the profound way The conditions do not exist for an absolute - see Einstein and others who have come along since the earth curved itself into a ball. If nothing travels faster than the speed of light, then so does dark and it does not travel at all except as it is within your consciousness - which also contains a concept of stillness. It's all in your "head", absolutely all of it. So,sure definitely agree.
  • There is one "absolute" from which all others originate.
  • Disagree. If there were no absolutes, there would be no basis to discriminate between phenomena, and thus no way of knowing.
  • Agreed. Nothing is absolute in a limitless/infinite/endless sense. Out of nothing arises everything. Everything is always partial, limited, and relative to itself (in different frames of references) but absolutely relative to nothing for without nothing there wouldn't be everything.

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