Simple Choice 4:
1. This is true.
2. This feels true.
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Knock on the sky and listen to the sound. ~Zen Saying
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- http://news.bbc.co.uk
- http://today.reuters.com
- http://www.arabnews.com/
- http://www.csmonitor.com
- http://www.drudgereport.com
- http://www.fark.com
- http://www.gravytunes.com
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/
- http://www.inpassing.org/
- http://www.moderndrunkardmagazine.com
- http://www.owlfarmblog.com
- http://www.stonerrock.com
- http://www.subservientchicken.com
- http://www.thesmokinggun.com
12 comments:
Choice 2 is lazy.
There is no absolute truth for a human, so feeling true is as close as we can get. Shadows cast by truth are our only signposts. Remember Mr. Gunter? Quantum. Uncertainty principle. Funny thing though, we can predict the final effects of complex systems, as long as we remember every little detail. Entropy wins. Truth is grey.
Damn, this is good Jambalaya. Grilled chicken and sausage. Hot peppers and garlic. Wicked.
Can it be true that there is no absolute truth?
I gahranTEE, I see the light that I am destined to look at.
Looking away is lazy.
You can guarantee nothing. You can only interpret the information that your senses are able to give you. The ground that you feel isn't really solid, the light that you see is only a small fraction of the spectrum that surrrounds you. Truth is beyond us. Reason, however, is not beyond us. Science is not. Art is not. We are capable of amazing things, but we are not capable of defining what truly IS... (Bill Clinton comes to mind)
...I think.
Truth is an ideal to which we can aspire. Truth is God. Truth is infinite and unchanging.
Awesome stuff. As much as I enjoy digging through the weeds of Reality and Meaning, my use of truth in my post was intended to be the kind of truth that is constrained by one's human limitations to discern, and tends to be for more practical applications such as the pursuit of Knowledge and Understanding that serve to enhance MY interaction with MY perceived reality.
Clearly, and closer to the ground, there IS a practical truth out there that we could/should all agree on, but we don't, becasue too many people latch on to a feel-good narrative created by someone with an agenda, and fail to just look it up for themselves.
To me, it would be lazy to just accept someone's else understanding of things because it feels true. Rather, each should search for their own closest possible approximation of "truth".
I went to the University of Texas, where they have proudly engraved above the entrance to the administration building: "Ye shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall set you free."
So perhaps my new saying shall be: This is the Truth, and it feels free to me.
I need a hurricane.
Also, if anyone actually cares, I initially meant to make a point about the importance of separating non-useful, non-significant emotions from the grasping of truth.
For example, I think invading and occupying Iraq was the emotionally truthful thing to do for a lot of people. But in truth - which we can see more clearly now as the old feelings fall away - it was a stupidly irrational thing to do. To be this irrational, we had to look away from the truth.
There were real truths that we either would not or could not see that led to assuming things that were not true, but certainly felt true at the time. We were lazy, for emotional reasons. But hey, I got my tax cut and haven't lost a leg, so who am I to complain?
Fascinating. Maybe I should change my name to Spock. That would be logical.
Yes.
The Masses come to mind. Sitting there completely content to be fed full of patriotic rhetoric with promises of safety and freedom, the automotons stare at the television, recieve their newspeak and become angry at the crimethinker who attempts to speak truth.
These robots become so limited in their scope that they are literally unable to open their minds back up to the fresh air of independent thought.
People are capable, but changing someone's mind can be like swimming an oil tanker into port.
I try to help out by recommending various news outlets available on the internet. God help us if THEY get control of the net.
Wooo Pig Sooie.
Fuck it if anyone cares... here goes.
There was plenty of info out there pre-Iraq. It felt good - felt true for too many people. We didn't like Saddam and that was enough. THEY said Iraq had WMD and that sealed it. We were screaming and so were plenty of lefties and military rightwingers. But THEY rolled it into the big ball of shit from 9/11.
Too many citizens in this country still operate under the assumption that we are the good guys. We are not.
That is a truth that we as a nation need to recognize. We need to consider the negative cultural, environmental, financial and military impact we are having on the rest of the world. We aren't the good guys of the thirties and forties that we grew up believing in. I'm a patriot and I'm beginning to believe it's time to take serious action.
Kill whitey.
I care. Can I get an Amen? You go, Brother Odes.
Truth to power - shit - they know the truth. Truth for the masses! But how? People are lazy. They need the truth fed to them.
Answer: I still don't know. But it will help to start by getting mad.
I wanna kee-uhl.
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